Lock & Load

No respect for Respect

After the so-called People's Justice Party of Birmingham - who enjoyed an election pact with the Respect Party of George Galloway - put out an election flyer during the local elections last year denouncing the LibDems for being pro gay rights...

http://swanseagreenparty.org.uk/blog/martyn/2005/04/what-respect.htm

.... one would have thought no respectable politician would have touched them with a bargepole.

However, with the tone set by Respect's Lindsay German (she of the gay rights and women's rights are “shibboleths” comments at Marxism 2003), ...

http://www.socialistfuture.org.uk/msf/ideas%20and%20philosophy/opportunism.htm

.... it came as no surprise that Respect were first in line to congratulate the PJP when they won seats on the Bordesley Green local council, and adding:

"We look forward to further co-operation with the PJP in the future."

http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=838

I wonder, does that "co-operation" include ensuring that the LibDems don't get any further promoting gay rights?

posted by Brett Lock @ 6:22 pm