Today the Guardian has published in its Comment is Free section a piece by Nick Herbert, openly gay Tory candidate and shadow justice secretary until the desolution of parliament, entitled The Tories are embracing gay rights , in which he defends his party's stance on gay rights and explains why his much-trumpeted visit to Poland in July is not tokenisitic. Between bouts of laughter, I have penned my own comments which I posted below the article. Since they amount to a blog post, I bring them together below. My first reaction was a follows: "I have to say I am a little confused. For months now the Tories have been telling us that their lovely friends from Poland and Eastern Europe in their new political group are not homophobes. Repeating this till they are blue in the face (see what I did there?) despite all evidence to the contrary. And suddenly two weeks before an election and as the party's support within the LGBT community is melting like snow in the sun (apparently n...
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