‘A reputable new poll has found that 38% of gay men intend to vote Conservative at the next election – more than any other party, and a swing away from Labour of 14.2%.
It is this seeming ingratitude that Labour is unable to bear. It cannot comprehend that gay people might be as repelled by the government as everyone else. So now it resorts to pitiful efforts to scare them. “Don’t trust the Tories,” it says, while preposterously claiming that we’ll reverse all the progress towards gay equality that’s been made,’ writes Nick Herbert in the Guardian.
Well he would say that, wouldn’t he, as Mandy Rice-Davies would have put it; Nick Herbert is one of two openly gay MPs in the Conservative front bench.
He’s probably right. But I am old enough to remember Section 28 and I will take a lot of convincing!
