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    #21
    Originally posted by Moscow Mule
    and htf do we have ten votes for the BNP? Come on, show yourselves.
    A gay friend of mine had a choice in a local election - vote for the Tory who said that homosexuality was a sin, and that all funding should be cut; or vote for the BNP who didn't quite go that far (maybe they couldn't spell the long words??).

    No other candidates stood in the ward, so sadly he had to vote BNP instead.
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      #22
      Originally posted by TheFaqqer
      A gay friend of mine had a choice in a local election - vote for the Tory who said that homosexuality was a sin, and that all funding should be cut; or vote for the BNP who didn't quite go that far (maybe they couldn't spell the long words??).

      No other candidates stood in the ward, so sadly he had to vote BNP instead.
      A truely sad state of affairs. Where was it?

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        #23
        Originally posted by TheFaqqer
        A gay friend of mine had a choice in a local election - vote for the Tory who said that homosexuality was a sin, and that all funding should be cut; or vote for the BNP who didn't quite go that far (maybe they couldn't spell the long words??).

        No other candidates stood in the ward, so sadly he had to vote BNP instead.

        He didn't do his research well, then. Nice quote from the party leader, pasted from wikipedia:

        Griffin has publicly expressed his distaste for homosexuality. After David Copeland's 1999 bombing of the Admiral Duncan gay pub in Soho, London, Griffin wrote: "The TV footage of dozens of 'gay' demonstrators flaunting their perversion in front of the world’s journalists showed just why so many ordinary people find these creatures so repulsive."

        Still, the funny thing is that their homophobia may suggest a certain repressed longing for male company if you know what I mean.

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          #24
          Originally posted by Old Greg

          He didn't do his research well, then. Nice quote from the party leader, pasted from wikipedia:

          Griffin has publicly expressed his distaste for homosexuality. After David Copeland's 1999 bombing of the Admiral Duncan gay pub in Soho, London, Griffin wrote: "The TV footage of dozens of 'gay' demonstrators flaunting their perversion in front of the world’s journalists showed just why so many ordinary people find these creatures so repulsive."

          Still, the funny thing is that their homophobia may suggest a certain repressed longing for male company if you know what I mean.
          I don't think the candidate explicitly said that they would cut all funding to homosexual groups. He knew what he was voting for, which made the situation even more depressing - Labour and Lib Dem would never get voted in there, so they didn't run.
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            #25
            Originally posted by Pondlife
            A truely sad state of affairs. Where was it?
            Burnley - in one of the rich wards, hence no alternative candidates.
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              #26
              Originally posted by TheFaqqer
              homosexuality was a sin, and that all funding should be cut
              Are we now funding homosexuality?
              How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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                #27
                Round my area they would elect a monkey if it had a Red Rosette on. The upshot of which it is totally pointless voting Tory since they have no chance.

                For that reason I tend to vote Liberal, not because I support them, but because it is the best way of damaging/getting rid of the Labour.

                Our Labour MP's have been particularly hopeless. The original one felt it was his job to sell Labour Policy to me (No you idiot it is your job to bring my concerns to the government of the day). When he retired he was replaced by some stupid bint who has only voted against the government a couple of times. (PS to illustrate how stupid she voted for the MSC provisions in the Budget and she used to be a freelancer!)

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by Troll
                  Are we now funding homosexuality?
                  Is contracting not paying enough for you?

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                    #29
                    We don't have Labour candidates around my way.

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