Ssssh! Don’t tell Conservative backbenchers, but…
From today’s opinion polling:
- The public supports same-sex marriage;
- The public thinks more positively of David Cameron because of his support for it; and
- Of those who say it will be an important issue in deciding how they vote at the next general election, those who say they will be more likely to support a party that backs same-sex marriage outnumber those who say it makes them less likely to vote for such a party.
So: the public continues to support it, the public thinks better of your leader because of it and people are more likely to vote for a party that supports it.
What should you do?
PANIC AND DEMAND AN END TO THIS DISASTROUS POLITICAL MOVE, of course.
The public do NOT support the oxymoronic ‘gay marriage’ *once they are told that Civil Partnerships convey the same rights in law as marriage*.
So please, DO use the correct polling to support what is, in truth, a vacuous argument: if we’re going to have Govt ‘by the people, for the people’ then by al means lets have iDemocracy ((c) Douglas Carswell, MP) and have national referenda on all issues – large and small.
That would mean Boris Island having been built a decade or more ago, new motorways and other roads and NO HS2 and the return of hanging; the end of most Overseas Aid and a larger Defence Budget.
Not to mention grammar schools, caning, sackable Heads, the abolition of LEAs and the ending of most public-sector pension schemes.
HD2 You’re mistaken. The very poll I quoted and linked to above does make the point about legal rights that you state. And even so by 2-1 the public back equal marriage. (In fact, the claim that there are equal legal rights isn’t even quite true – as there are differences, such as related to moving abroad.)
When Cameron set out to ‘modernise’ the Conservative Party is was a project that was doomed from the start. People, especially political activists, are what they are, a liberal is a liberal, a conservative thinker is a conservative. So to persuade the local Conservative Party activist to support views that we as liberals are comfortable with ….. it was never going to happen. Prehaps we are seeing another re alignment, a right wing party with outright right wing views that will command 20/255 support, a ‘new’ broader’ progressive alliance of ourselves, liberal minded conservative supporters, and the liberal minded social democrats from Labour. An impossible dream???? lets see 🙂
correction 20/25% and our selves in a broader partnership with similiar 20/25% then the undecided voter to be persueded 🙂