COMMENT: WARSI’S BLUNDER

News by Simon McD on October 23, 2009 at 8:09 am

Things were going well for Baroness Warsi – the Shadow Communities and Cohesion minister – on last night’s Question Time. We agreed with her points about immigration and celebrated her challenges to Jack Straw and Nick Griffin.

But then she was asked about civil partnerships. She stumbled. Dimbleby asked her again -”Do you agree with civil partnerships?”  She finally said that she was supportive of them, but looked awkward saying it.

And this is the catch. Baroness Warsi’s apparent homophobic views are well documented. She previously didn’t support sex education in schools and also said that the removal of Section 28 from the Local Government Act 1986 was ‘the promotion of homosexuality’.

Her campaign leaflets from 2005 claimed that Labour’s lowering of the homosexual age of consent from 18 to 16 was “allowing schoolchildren to be propositioned for homosexual relationships” – (ie paedophilia) and that homosexuality was being promoted to children as young as seven. Obviously ideas she believed in long before she became the Conservative Party’s shining star.

Warsi’s since gone back on her words, saying that her campaign was not about homosexuality, but sex education in general. Then she wanted all sex education stopped – but now she’s changed her mind.

Just in time for the next general election…

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  • Raymondo
    No evidence? Other than the actual blurb on her 2005 campaign leaftlets? It's there in black and white - she accused labour of 'promoting homosexuality'. She's since said that she regretted 'the language' she used, but had no apparent regrets about the content.
    She's a homophobe.
  • leftgay
    I distrust her more being a tory than how most do for being a muslim.
  • There is no evidence in this article of her being homophobic.
  • Equality is not a sliced cake, you either embrace it for everyone or you don't.
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