#andrea leadsom

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Heard Andrea Leadsom say that the Conservatives are the "natural party of government". If that's what they think about themselves, they should be nowhere near government.

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Andrea Leadsom MP claims some furloughed workers don't want to return | Metro News

Workers don't want to return because furlough 'has been great', Tory MP says

She said some people have enjoyed being able to be in the gardens and growing vegetables.

This is so ridiculous. Of course people enjoy being paid not to work! The idea that one should want to work in a pointless non-job is so strange.

Why shouldn't people go for a better work life balance if they can.

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So when Theresa May finally, finally, finally decides to actually fuck off this is the reported potential list of challengers for the Tory leadership:

Jeremy Hunt

Sajid Javid

Amber Rudd

Michael Gove

Matt Hancock

Liz Truss

Gavin Williamson

Andrea Leadsom

Stephen Barclay

Penny Mordaunt

Boris Johnson

Dominic Raab

It’s like a who’s who of utter lunatics, nobodies and psychotics that I wouldn’t let run a fucking bath for me for fear of them managing to drown themselves in the tub while trying.

The only ones I can’t think of something absolutely fucking hideous, or absolutely fucking stupid, or both, about are the two whose names I genuinely don’t even think I’d ever heard before I saw this list. Hi Matt Hancock and Stephen Barclay, I’m sure I’ll hate you too once I find out who the fuck you even are.

This leadership contest is going to be a fucking clown car pileup of epic proportions.

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I am still spitting feathers about Andrea Leadsom’s comments about parents having the right to “choose when their children are exposed to LGBT issues”.   As though the very knowledge that we exist will somehow cause children to turn gay, or suddenly overwhelm them with graphic sexual information.  Not one person would dream of suggesting that explaining to a child that Mr Smith (a man) is married to Mrs Smith (a woman) is indoctrinating children into heterosexuality, or involves having to explain the intricacies of cunnilingus to them.  Yet, somehow, explaining to a child that two men might want to be married is somehow destroying their innocence.

 The thing that makes me REALLY angry about this discussion, though, and the similar ones that have been held over the years, is the inevitable cry of “I’m not homophobic, I just…” fill in the blank as applicable.  I remember a few years ago now reading an article by right-wing social commentator and alleged journalist Melanie Phillips about guidelines that advised schools to help normalise pupils’ perceptions of gay people by, for example, occasionally referencing a same sex couple in the text of a maths question.  “What has maths got to do with gayness?” cried Ms Phillips.  She then went on explain that she could not possibly be homophobic because of articles she has written in the past decrying the systemic murder of gay people in Iran, without ever considering that perhaps the reason why it is seen as acceptable in Iran to systemically murder gay people is precisely because there are no examples there or homosexuality being normal, unremarkable and everyday.

 And to be clear, I am absolutely certain that when the Melanie Phillipses and Andrea Leadsoms of this world say that they are opposed to gay people being systemically murdered, they are being entirely sincere.  I think that not wanting an entire class of people to be arbitrarily killed is a fairly low ethical bar, but I’m confident that they meet it.  And they are homophobes nevertheless.  

 If you believe that discussing being gay necessitates some kind of graphic description of sex acts, you are a homophobe.  If you believe that telling children that some of their classmates will have two mummies, or two daddies, and that that’s okay is disgusting, perverted, immoral, or just too sensitive for their innocent young ears, you are a homophobe.  If you believe that that telling your children that being gay is wrong in the hope that they won’t turn out to be is better than telling them that you’ll still love them if they are, then not only are you a homophobe, you are not fit to be a parent.

 And I’m not throwing around the word “homophobia” because I find these attitudes offensive (although they are) or because I am “triggered” but because these attitudes kill gay people.  They kill as surely and as certainly as Melanie Phillips’s Iranian death squads.  They kill by empowering the hate criminal, and they kill by feeding the despair of frightened, vulnerable gay kids who believe that this world has no place for them. These attitudes are dangerous; do not pander to them and do not allow them to flourish.  Stand up to hate.

 And, yes, everything I’ve said here about gay people applies just as much to bi and pan and queer people.  And it applies doubly so to trans and non-binary people, who still face a horrifically hostile media landscape.

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oh my god andrea leadsom said that islamophobia in the conservative party is a matter for the foreign office???????