“…there are a small minority of people in the party who hold views that I think are unacceptable.”
Er, which party?
The Lib Dem candidate for Huntingdon, Martin Land, had earlier lashed out, “the Tories remain a coalition between the blatantly self-interested, closet racists, and homophobes (not necessarily mutually exclusive categories)…”
But what about his own party?
“Cambridgeshire [Lib Dem] county councillor Kilian Bourke created a group on social networking site Facebook littered with jokes about homosexuality.” … Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said: “With homophobic attitudes like these I don’t see how he can possibly represent his lesbian and gay constituents. These gratuitous anti-gay insults render him unfit for public office.”
Er, which party?
The Lib Dem candidate for Huntingdon, Martin Land, had earlier lashed out, “the Tories remain a coalition between the blatantly self-interested, closet racists, and homophobes (not necessarily mutually exclusive categories)…”
But what about his own party?
“Cambridgeshire [Lib Dem] county councillor Kilian Bourke created a group on social networking site Facebook littered with jokes about homosexuality.” … Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said: “With homophobic attitudes like these I don’t see how he can possibly represent his lesbian and gay constituents. These gratuitous anti-gay insults render him unfit for public office.”
No party has the monopoly on “virtue”. I try to judge parties on what the 90-95 per cent of the membership believe, not the odd five to ten per cent. Also let’s judge people on what they have done recently and not what they were doing at school or as students or what their friends have got up to.
So, Lib Dems… does Cllr Bourke stay or should he go?
Whatever the decision, only Liberal Democrats could be harmed in the course of Martin Land's next public statement.
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