Gay Tories Voting Labour
David Cameron doesn’t understand that if he supports gay rights he can’t be content with his MEPs not supporting them. Chris Grayling doesn’t understand that B&B owners can’t be allowed to turn gay visitors away any more than hotels can. It turns out that even gay Tories can’t stomach this two-faced cynicism:
Anastasia Beaumont-Bott, the first chairman of the LGBTory group, said she felt guilty for having told gay voters to back the Tories in the past after Chris Grayling, the shadow Home Secretary, said he believed bed and breakfast owners should have the right to ban gay couples from staying in their property. She called on the Tory leader to dismiss Mr Grayling. So far, Mr Cameron has refused to take any action against him.
“I feel guilty because as a gay woman affected by LGBT rights I am on record saying you should vote Conservative, and I want to reverse that,” she said. “I want to go on record to say don’t vote Conservative. I’d go as far to say that I’ll vote Labour at this general election.” The endorsement for Labour from Ms Beaumont-Bott, 20, will be an embarrassment for the Tories. She had been picked out as one of the faces of Mr Cameron’s young, modern Conservatives for her work in promoting gay rights within the party.
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I understand and agree with her. However I think it’s a bit infantile of her to say she might vote Labour now instead – thus inflicting another term of totalitarian horror on the whole country.
Whilst what Grayling said needs to be rebuffed and he should be hauled into Cameron’s office immediately – the bigger picture is that there are far more horrors occurring almost on a daily basis from the Labour Party so I don’t understand why her protest vote should go to them.