Those who surrender their liberty for security deserve none (to paraphrase someone).

It appears that he considers that *pretending* that the deviant acts of a minority should be equated with the Ordained requirement of God, that of marriage between a man and woman, further to procreate as commanded by God, as having some kind of moral equivalence, *is wrong*.
That of course is a sin in our Frankfurt School inspired, communist dominated modern world.
Until thirty years ago such ‘opinion holding’ was the mark of a free liberal tolerant democracy.

Hmmmmm.

I’m on holiday (ish – as a web-dev with mobile broadband, what I mean is I’m away from home and drinking with the wife from noon…) so can’t really tell the difference between the Grauniad, Guardian on Sunday and the Observer. Frankly I’m lucky if I don’t leave the shop with the Torygraph and a copy of the Morning Star for the wife (’sorry dear, they didn’t have the times’)…

However, the price for eschewing that should not be the rights and status of 7% (ish) of our, Poland or the EU’s population. Pandering to those who want that does not do our cause any favours. Why? Well, the pro-Euros will now be able to argue (based on fact) that those who want ‘out’ or ‘less’ of europe mostly want to do so to get back to persecuting gays and jews (see today’s Grauniad), free from criticism or interference.

I mean, today, I have no doubt that anti-smoking zealots would happily lie down with the 1940s Nazi who, after all, banned Smoking on public transport. What are a few jews compared to the health and well being of European citizens, eh? That would certainly be the case I’d make if I opposed them.

All I’m saying is while I may (or may not) want to get out from under EU subservience, I’m not willing to sacrifice 7% of people on that altar and I hope, I sincerely hope (and the Alan Duncan’s of this world give me cause to believe) that Dave doesn’t either. Hague, IDS or Howard well… Another story, innit?

(Not in “that” way, you understand. I’m not some kind of faggot, see.)

I am not sure he had a choice. Lay aside some of the fundamental policy principles of his party (anti-federalism) or accept some rather whiffy fellow travellers.

How come we don’t hear anything about Madame Mussolini’s rather fragrant past. After all, she is a fully signed up member of the EPP.

Still, the only thing to say is if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. This one will come back to haunt Dave.

About the Polish v gay question, I can’t really say. It just amuses me that the people who are usually the first in line to scream ‘colonialism’ when we raise topics like FGM or sharia law in third-world countries are often the same ones that think we should be dictating to other EU countries over this and other liberal policies…

O/T: Interestingly, I was watching the tribute to Molly Sugden yesterday. They showed a clip of her as Mrs Slocombe, with one of her double-entendres about knowing when there was a storm because ‘My pussy’s hair stands up on end…’ and they faded out there, before she finished the sentence.

Which could still just be heard as ‘…like a golliwogs!’

Come back, Carol Thatcher?