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There's an article in the Guardian today primarily about the new touchy-feely gay-friendly Tories, which kind of follows on from what I was saying yesterday in the US. I guess it's going to take actions rather than words. There are Labour frontbenchers that are known to be homophobic (including possible Blair replacement David Blunkett) but the Lib Dems claim that all that Labour have done has been forced by Europe isn't really fair, the Equal Age of Consent was battled through the Lords before European legislation became an issue, and the Government has opted out of so many other directives that if they wanted to they could have opted out of gay rights too. However, Labour were the first party to legislate to make homophobia legal. Similarly, for Tories to try and claim that gay rights is a natural branch of Tory libertarianism when their current leader brought in Section 28 to pander to the worst elements of homophobia in the country when he was last in charge looks similarly unrealistic.

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