sean99
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Rumours that Truss would appoint Frost as Foreign Secretary do nothing to inspire confidence.
I really think the mods should update the thread title to "Tory leadership crawlers and slitherers"
Rumours that Truss would appoint Frost as Foreign Secretary do nothing to inspire confidence.
Looks like Truss will copy the Republicans in waging war on LGBTQ+ human rights (Jo Maugham/Open Democracy via Twitter). Terrifying if true. Religious extremism given a green light to torture people with “conversion therapy” pseudoscience. The very bullshit that drove Alan Turing and so many others to suicide. This one needs fighting with bricks and bottles on the streets if necessary. No way in hell should bigoted far-right “laws” be accepted as legitimate.
PS The Wikipedia entry on “Conversion Therapy” is well worth reading, as is content from Stonewall. It is bullshit quackery and no more legitimate than say Iran hanging gay people from cranes. It is born of exactly the same religious fascism mindset.
No chance of it happening here because we aren't a nation full of religious cranks like they are.
You're assuming that Conservative government policy is somehow based on the opinion of the public at large. I wish I had your confidence Matt.
I really think the mods should update the thread title to "Tory leadership crawlers and slitherers"
A crumb of comfort - Jolyon has a notably poor track record for foresight.You're assuming that Conservative government policy is somehow based on the opinion of the public at large. I wish I had your confidence Matt.
Sending refugees & asylum seekers to Rwanda is the sort of feckery previously associated with the likes of NF/BoM.
I just find it hard to believe there is enough sentiment for that sort of crap to go through, like we're all going to sit here and allow gay conversion therapy or any other nonsense, I think even the Tory voting cranks aren't that swivelled eyed.
I figured BTL comments didn’t have copyright but I respect your decision<moderating>
A large screen-scrape cut & paste removed. I request people please respect copyright. Citing a sentence or two, even a short paragraph from an article to give the gist, followed always by a link to the source material is acceptable under ‘fair use’, but copying vast amounts of text without any links could get me into expensive trouble!
If the conversion therapy doesn’t work, there’s the beheading therapy.It's currently legal. The government only announced in April that it plans to ban it - and that after a lot of campaigning. And there are still conditions and loopholes.
If the head of your church or mosque suggests it, and there's no proof of coercion, then it will remain legal even after the bill has passed.
1 in 20 LGBTQ+ people have been offered conversion therapy - raising to 1 in 5 Muslim LGBTQ+ people:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-56496423
No sh1t.I think Truss might be onto something here: