Agenda 2019

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/21/labour-cameron-gay-marriage-bill Labour saves David Cameron again. Gay marriage bill survives after Ed Miliband votes against amendment What is happening to Labour? They abstain on a vote and help the Tories to retrospectively change the law on Welfare reforms following the Poundland fiasco, and now they vote with the Tories to prevent another  government defeat, this time on a gay marriage bill amendment. I would have thought that it is not the function of the Labour party to support and maintain a government who are every day, attacking working people with pernicious austerity measures, attacking the sick and disabled with vicious cuts to services and support, attacking benefit claimants with reductions in payments, and attacking people deemed to have spare bedrooms. I left the Labour Party some time ago as they had drifted away from the core values and principles that I supported. It now seems that they have become ...

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/05/gay-marriage-mps-vote-in-favour_n_2621431.html?1360091772&utm_hp_ref=uk MPs Vote In Favour Of Gay Marriage, As Debate Exposes Deep Tory Divisions    The prime minister, who did not attend the debate despite being the driving force behind the Bill,      said in a statement that allowing gay people to marry would "make our society stronger".   This "story" has dominated the news media and television for weeks if not months. From all the available evidence it would appear that the vast majority of the gay and lesbian community have no great support for these proposals, and are content with the present civil partnership measures, and the vast majority of heterosexuals have the same view. It seems that the only passionate interest in "Gay Marriage" lies in the Chambers and corridors of the Houses of Parliament and in the councils of the Church. Now that this "debate" seems to...