Gordon's Gay Friendliness Questioned
According to research by PinkNews, Gordon Brown, has consistently failed to support gay rights in parliament since the Labour party was elected in 1997. Research by them shows that he has never attended parliament when gay rights have been voted on whilst Labour has been in power. They say:
Mr Brown has on 14 separate occasions failed to attend Commons votes when issues relating to gay equality were voted on. He failed to support the government's equalisation of the age of consent, the abolition of Section 28, gay couples being able to jointly adopt, civil partnerships and the Equality Act. The registration of civil partnerships are the responsibility of the Treasury, the department that Mr Brown heads.
In late July, the Labour rebel John McDonnell, MP for Hayes & Harlington declared his intent to challenge Mr Brown for the leadership of the Labour party. Unlike Mr Brown, Mr McDonnell has voted positively in every one of the fourteen divisions relating to gay equality held since 1997.
Mr Brown could possibly argue that he was "too busy" to attend the votes. However, even with his greater work load, Mr Blair managed to attend four divisions relating to equalising the age of consent and allowing gay couples to jointly adopt.
Indeed, Mr Brown could be considered to posses a worse record than David Cameron, the leader of the Conservatives.
Odd that Brown has been "too busy" to vote for gay rights. You'd thought he be happy to help out...
55 comments:
while Cameron wasn't busy to turn out and vote against some gay rights pieces of legislation.
The claim DC has a better record is rubbish.
Brown supported an equal age of consent back in 1994.
PinkNews can be renamed MaudeNews considering how much he's featured there.
Well, he's miserable - of course he isn't going to support divisions on people being happy. That's the sort of gay you mean, right?
People will want to know if there is some flaw in his personality...or something
Wow....this is totemic in Modern Britain ?
Of course there's some flaw in his personality. He is a Cabinet Minister in the Government!
Hmm.. now what was it that Prescott has got on Blair and Brown..
Nah, can't be relevat to this..... can it?
Wow, that middle picture of him is pure Brideshead Revisited.....
Foppish youthery meets dour git. (Dour git won out in the end, obviously)
Scurrilous types might be tempted to leave such comments as "in denial"
Everybody knows Gordon has had loads of girl-friends and he never got married because he was too cowardly to turn up to take the vows.
"that middle picture of him is pure Brideshead Revisited....."
More Birkenhead than Brideshead, in my humble opinion.
Which eye is blind in again?
Well, he's done something right then.
OK, I know this is a blog of "plots, RUMOURS and conspiracy", but your last sentence is just a little too out of the box.
Isn't it? Or is there something that I really should know?
A man who forces us all to bend over for each budget. You'd think he'd be happy to support gay rights.
Looking almost as good as Bush in the YMCA kit, too.
He isn't about to declare 'mission accomplished', is he? Or is that just a wee bit premature ...
Are some of you trying to suggest in a nudge-nudge wink-wink sort of way that Gordon Brown is gay? That some of you know something that others don't know?
How witty and clever you are!
Or are you just avid readers of the tabloids?
And yes, the idea that someone has had a homosexual relationship is hysterically funny, isn't it?
Oh sorry - I've just remembered - it's the first day of the school holidays, isn't it. THAT explains the calibre of the comments here today.
Surely he's paired up on votes with a member from the tories. He is, after all, busy running the country. David Cameron on the otherhand is the apprentice of Michael Howard; the architect of the homophobic Section 28.
The Romanian princess has basically said they didn't shag. So what if he batted for both teams in his youth?
Guido is Sue Lawley. I claim my £5.
There were certain people close to Blair who went round saying Brown was gay after John Smith's death.
Please don't do their dirty work for them, Guido.
yes, Guido, why won't you 'come out' and say what you really think -- if anything -- about Brown's sexual orientation? We know you're not afraid of Rosie Winterton; are you afraid of Brown? At least the Pink Times is clear: it wants to know, because he might be our next PM (God help us), what he thinks about gay rights.
Dear Prudence
Won't you come out and play?
I hear that Gordon is about to shun Raith Rovers and become a Manchester United supporter, just goes to show how our tastes can change.
Seriously. James (Gordon) Brown got poked in the left eye at school by something which blinded him. I think it was ball.
Were any of these votes in danger of being close? I can understand if his absence from a close vote can be interpreted, but this just stinks of an attempt to muddy his image. First there was the Conservatives trying to claim that they were responsible for the economic successes that occured under Brown, and now people are going after his social record, and attacking the Treasury's social agenda?
Hmm.
Give it up rumour mongers. It was never so and it ain't so. His enemies have tried this tact before. Just give it up and attack his politices. That, of course, would require people being grown-up.
"Please don't do their dirty work for them, Guido."
There's nothing "dirty" or shameful about being gay. But if a gay man wants (oh so much) to be PM that he hides his sexuality and fails to vote on key equality issues...well that, to me, is legitimate enquiry.
I can live with him being a closet gay, but the self cannibalisation displayed in the centre photo shows that eating himself is not a recent phenomena , and is frankly unacceptable in a putative prime minister. Just as well he isn't a yogi, or the News of the Screws would be seriously interested in his contortions.
Ruth Kelly has managed to avoid gay rights votes on 12 occasions, putting her two behind the Chancellor.
But then again, he isn't Minister for Equality, is he.
The Tory Party, wasn't that once led by William Hague, who used to share a house with, Alan Duncan. William Hague, didn't he suddenly get married, although he didn't have to many girlfiends, that I remember, before the Lovely FFion. HMMM has there been the patter of little Hague's around the house. Then wasn't there someone called Portillo who nearly...........need we go on with this.
Does it matter? There are plenty of blokes like myself who in their youth (in my case till mid-20s) were homosexual and are now happily married to women (and loving every minute of it thank you). Yes, it shouldn't matter if someone has got a "gay past" but equally that doesn't automatically make them gay today.
Give it a rest.
Acquiring wives / girlfriends round about the time you step up to the top job is not proof of anything, but it does seem to happen with surprising regularity.
One would have thought that nowadays you could be leader of a progressive political party - like, say, the Lib Dems - without feeling the need to acquire a female partner at the same time. But clearly not.
Who's at fault here - the ones who spread the rumours, or the ones who try to portray themselves as something they are not for electoral gain?
nim nim nim nim you're all so childish nim nim nim nim bollocks.
Politically, I don't care what he does with his genitals, nor who he does it with, so long as it's all consensual. I'll never vote for the quasi-socialist dour bastard anyway. But if he's hiding the fact that he's a gaysexual then I'd like to know.
No reason, really. I just like a good piece of gossip. And so do you all. So, purveyors of sanctimony, piss off to another website if you don't like it here. WE're here to whisper like naughty children about what politicians [may] push up their bottoms and then giggle.
Gordon is not, nor ever has been anything but heterosexual , he is in fact both a plushie and a gas mask fetishist!
"now happily married to women"
this one?
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2005/01/28/312_350-toe.jpg
When you talk about "Gordon's gay friendliness", do you perhaps mean "Gordon's gay-friendliness"?
It's just that the two have completely different connotations, and one is quite scandalous...
Plenty of far more important things to work on than "gay rights". For once I agree with GB, I wouldn't waste my time on that either.
Well, he was certainly anything but gay when an undergraduate in Edinburgh. I happen to know that for a fact.
Why don't all you wits go and find something seriously possibly true to be witty about. This is not that.
You mean, Gordon Brown takes £5bn per year out of the pensions funds causing a long-term pensions crisis, depresses the equity market, steals more and more of our money through a myriad stealth taxes, pi**es it up the wall, ruins the economy by increasing government spending, inflates the public services into a vast NuLab industry of client-voters whose lavish pensions will drive the rest of us into penury.
But that he ALSO didn't vote for or against a younger age of consent and gay adoption, and might conceivably have a 'gay past' makes him a monster?
Are we missing some sense of proportion here?
2br02b... Hi Gordon how are the kids?
The Iron Hoof Chancellor.
Has a nice ring.
"Gordon is ... a gas mask fetishist!"
You'd think he'd take it off when posing for photographs, though.
Does anyone remember the story from about ten years back when Philip Hensher was sacked as a clerk in the Commons for his comments in an interview in Attitude? He had just published his first novel and was asked about which members of the House were closet gays and which ones he fancied. Among other comments he said that he rather liked Gordon Brown for his "shagged-out look".
Idle said...
The Iron Hoof Chancellor.
Has a nice ring.
If that`s from persoanl experience Idle I think you should phone Max Hastings a.s.a.p.
If Guido or anyone else is interested: the acquisition of a wife at a surprisingly late stage in life (Hague, Kennedy, Brown etc) is by no means only a recent thing: Francis Bacon did the same. When, in his mature years, there seemed a real prospect for the first time of his finally getting his hands on the Lord Chancellor's robes, he suddenly married a young girl, many years his junior and light years below him, both intellectually and socially, about whom very little was thereafter heard. Incidentally, Bacon's brother, Anthony, was well known to be a homosexual.
I realize that as Francis Bacon was an exact contemporary of Guido's, he may know all this already.
WmByrd said...
You mean, Gordon Brown takes £5bn per year out of the pensions funds causing a long-term pensions crisis, depresses the equity market, steals more and more of our money through a myriad stealth taxes, pi**es it up the wall, ruins the economy by increasing government spending, inflates the public services into a vast NuLab industry of client-voters whose lavish pensions will drive the rest of us into penury.
But that he ALSO didn't vote for or against a younger age of consent and gay adoption, and might conceivably have a 'gay past' makes him a monster?
Are we missing some sense of proportion here?
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Don't forget that the cretin advertised to the world that he was going to sell off some of our gold reserves thus causing the price of gold to fall significantly.
Takes brains does that!
He's not worth the water he passes.
Women wear out faster than men so it is obvious that older men look for younger women. I know of a 50 year old who married a 16-year old woman, and is it really so wonderful to have two or three ex-wives by the time you are in your forties ?
Then again, until recently those young married men who managed to play both sides of the field were not divorced for "adultery" but "unreasonable behaviour" - no doubt with civil partnerships being legal the grounds will now change to "adultery"
Lots of practising gay men married young
Wow, he's gorgeous in that middle picture. Maybe he should get out of the Treasury and into the gym a bit more. He might surprise some of us. (Speaking purely in a completely shallow and libidinous sort of way.)
he has a friend called Balls. won't this do?
When I was cuddling him in bed the other night, we agreed how unfair all these rumours were....
What does it matter if Brown is or is not a queer. I just wish the whole shagging lot of shirtlifters would shut up about their problems.
Now could we get back to politics
brown is being a selfish brat. he can't be not attending votes on any polices ecspecially gay rites which is a traditional labour policy. this is another reason why i don't think brown should become prime minister it will show that he is lazy and disrespectful.
i had understood that at the time of the 1997 election the labour party were about to "out" a very senior Conservative. but Mandy brokered a deal whereby they would not "out" the Conservative..... but that the Conservatives would agree not to "Out" Gordon.
of course , in due time Edward Heath's homosexuality became known anyway
When will someone with the proper goods have the balls to publish?
1. Blair's had form for years - I suppose he was called Miranda at the Bar because he had long hair, eh? Not that anyone else did in the seventies...
2. TB and GB share an office and a wonderful relationship in the eighties - until TB finds a new little friend called Peter
3. Peter rogers GB (tho not in the same way as he does Miranda) - start of prolonged lovers' tiff...
which dominates how the poor bloody country is "run" for the next ten years.
4. GB gets his revenge by threatening to spill the really nasty stuff on Peter (Brazilian boys? photos?) if he doesn't quit over Hinduja - spot the dog who didn't bark: no statement of support or otherwise during Hindujagate from GB - check the record
5. The two headgirls won't even talk to each other thereafter while the country gentle glides down into the shambling shithole it's in now
6. Britannia now being run by a malevolent old queen surrounded by all those nice young lads from the Treasury.
Now look'ee, I don't give a stuff where the leaders of this country stick their private equipment and there was no doubt fun aplenty in Major's cabinet (closet?)...
However, I fucking well take exception to it when it results in the country being run like a hairdressers' on poppers.
Get this bloody rabble out now so they can get on with writing their scratch-your-eyes-out memoirs...
hes not gay, he is a gay reptilian :)
seriously tho, Ive been told my a few jurnos he is gay, why not have a gay PM? wouldnt bother me, hes crap no-matter who he choses to sleep with!
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