I refer of course to that chimera, that man of a thousand faces, that smooth reflecting man who, when you look at him, returns the image you wish for - I mean, of course, The Right 'Honourable' David Cameron. I insert the inverted commas around 'honourable' because not only did the man stand as a Tory but he is actually the leader of the Tory party. Thus, it is not unreasonable to suppose that he, himself, is a Tory. Well, if you believe that you will believe anything!
Apart from driving high speed train-lines through Tory heartlands destroying the property values of local residents, giving our money to windfarm contractors to allow them to ruin our countryside with their hideously ugly and mostly utterly useless contraptions and relaxing all planning rules so that any old get-rich-quick 'Bob the Builder' can knock up half a dozen brick boxes where-ever he can nick a bit of land, what has Dave done for you if you are a Tory? At least Brown & Balls, the Brokers Men, bent every rule in the book, borrowed money and committed the nation's finances in support of the north of England by massive recruitment campaigns for local authorities and quangos thus ensuring that there was a huge pool of potential voters hanging on their government's teat. But 'Dim Dave' actually attacks his own natural supporters.
His latest example of metropolitan, progressive, Left-wing policy-making is to force churches to allow same-sex marriages. Of course, he hurriedly tells us, no-one is forcing the churches, let alone the mosques or the synagogues, to undertake this task because they will have to volunteer by opting-in to the scheme. You do not need to be 'Mystic Meg' to see the forthcoming appeals to the European Court of (in)Justice aimed at any church or synagogue which declines to opt-in to this cosy arrangement. Of course, no-one in their right mind would try that on the Muslims because retribution would be swift and deadly! Only the soppy and soppingly wet, dear old Church of England will be targeted. I hold no brief for the CofE but I defend the right of anyone to practice their religion provided they do not take actions to inflict damage on other people. They are, in a sense, a private organisation and they should have the right to conduct their affairs according to their own lights without interference from the State. If, in order to avoid this monstrous intrusion into its own affairs and practices, it means giving up the right to be the 'official' national church, then so be it. And 'Dave' can go down in history as the man who helped destroy one of the last pillars of our society.
And he calls himself a 'conservative'!
(To avoid any misconceptions, let me make it clear that I am in favour of same-sex marriage but as the State already provides that service I fail to see why churches should be forced to do so.)
