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    #21
    Originally posted by Zero Liability View Post
    The fact that these parties are willing to adopt a pale imitation of whatever rhetoric UKIP is using at any given point shows that their main object is power and thus remaining popular, more than anything else. It's hard to think what other principles define these parties.

    Anyone who thinks that politicians are after anything other than obtaining and retaining power is pretty naive.

    Party politics itself is all about abandoning any personal integrity and standpoint in order to be part of a compromise position that will be elected by people with no real choice and no actual stake in the political process.

    When they can claim with a straight face that they have a mandate from elections with a sub 35% voter turnout and they get well below 40% of the votes it's not hard to notice they're not representative. Not tricky to spot they ignore the voting public completely until voting is imminent.

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      #22
      appears that UKIP is against same sex marriage because it is libertarian.
      It would seem so, in their view, and their argument it is not entirely without merit.

      Were Churches to be forced to marry gay people, it would be no more and no less than a piece of tyranny by which the rights of hundreds of thousands, millions even, of people of faith who hold true to the fundamental tenets of their religion will be ruthlessly trampled upon.
      Same Sex Marriage

      Every right in an overcrowded world will infringe or trample somebody else's. After all, we are imposing on people's liberty if we insist they have to employ black people in their businesses although most think that is a necessary imposition. Should religion be an excuse to opt out of all Britain's equality rights? It isn't just on gay marriage but on women's equality too. What other organisation could put a limit on a woman's progress? And if the religious have such opt-outs, why not others? They may have strong views on some issues too.

      Hard to know where to draw a line really. Don't agree with UKIP's view on this but I wouldn't be that critical.
      bloggoth

      If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
      John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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        #23
        Not tricky to spot they ignore the voting public completely until voting is imminent.
        Bit cynical post even by my standards but agree with the last bit. Democracy should be about much more than winning elections, it should be about delivering, in broad terms, the society the majority want. Unfortunately, when they do, they are accused of pandering to the whims of the electorate, knee jerk politics, cynical you turns etc. Most of us want reduced immigration and welfare, for example, but any party that responds to such concerns is labelled as xenophobic or nasty.

        Polly Toynbee (a rare sensible lefty) puts it very well:

        We must all share the blame for our 'useless' politicians | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian
        bloggoth

        If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
        John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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          #24
          Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
          It would seem so, in their view, and their argument it is not entirely without merit.



          Same Sex Marriage

          Every right in an overcrowded world will infringe or trample somebody else's. After all, we are imposing on people's liberty if we insist they have to employ black people in their businesses although most think that is a necessary imposition. Should religion be an excuse to opt out of all Britain's equality rights? It isn't just on gay marriage but on women's equality too. What other organisation could put a limit on a woman's progress? And if the religious have such opt-outs, why not others? They may have strong views on some issues too.

          Hard to know where to draw a line really. Don't agree with UKIP's view on this but I wouldn't be that critical.
          Nobody is proposing to force churches to conduct marriages. Is the RC church forced to marry divorcees? UKIP is in favour of a ban against gay people getting married. Hardly libertarian.

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            #25
            Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
            One of my buds posted this on FB. Here is what I replied :
            Originally posted by Me
            Britain has long since done things contrary to the gospel. Big Brother was about vanity. Then there's greed, sloth, gambling, not honouring thy father and mother (trust me, I have 4 kids) and only now God decides to send a few storms over? Now if Tony Blair got struck by lightning, then this would add some credence but I just cannot see God singling out one group out of all the other groups that are in technical contravention of scripture.
            I don't know if you've noticed, but the UK has been going down the toilet since before Big Brother. .
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #26
              Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
              I don't know if you've noticed, but the UK has been going down the toilet since before Big Brother. .
              In what way?
              Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                #27
                it is only a matter of time before the various churches that have the opt out of gay marriage are challenged legally, there is already talk.

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                  #28
                  @ukipweather
                  merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                    #29
                    Anyway, here is another you might not have heard of...

                    Ukip chair claims Glasgow Council for 'gays, Catholics, communists' in online rant | Herald Scotland

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by minestrone View Post
                      Stop nit picking.

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