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Last month, you could be forgiven for overlooking the fact that David Cameron undertook his own Shadow Cabinet reshuffle.
One individual to gain promotion to this body and to be elevated to the House of Lords was Sayeeda Warsi. She was the unsuccessful candidate for the Conservative party at the last General Election in Dewsbury. It is generally reckoned that hers was the most homophobic campaign by any candidate of the main political parties. In her campaign literature she claimed that the scrapping of Section 28 and equalising the age of consent had allowed ‘children’ to be propositioned for gay sex. She added that homosexuality undermines family life and that she would fight to end the promotion of homosexuality. It was further alleged that she produced different editions of her literature for different parts of the constituency and targeted the homophobic literature at primarily Asian parts of the town. All of this makes it incredible that the portfolio Ms Warsi - or Lady Warsi as we should now call her - has taken up is ‘Community Cohesion’.
It’s like putting the Pope in charge of birth control initiatives.
John Rossington
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