And these people are running the country....

[Hacker Khan]

Quote from Norman Tebbit on the proposed gay marriage bill

"When we have a queen who is a lesbian and she marries another lady and then decides she would like to have a child and someone donates sperm and she gives birth to a child, is that child heir to the throne?"

Tebbit, a former Tory Party chairman who served under Maragret Thatcher also said the gay marriage change would allow parents to marry their children to get out of paying.
"It's like one of my colleagues said: we've got to make these same sex marriages available to all," he said.

"It would lift my worries about inheritance tax because maybe I'd be allowed to marry my son.

"Why not? Why shouldn't a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn't two elderly sisters living together marry each other?"

He added: “I quite fancy my brother!”

Again, I will stress that these kind of people are running the country. God help us all

 

[Val]

Quote from Norman Tebbit on the proposed gay marriage bill

"When we have a queen who is a lesbian and she marries another lady and then decides she would like to have a child and someone donates sperm and she gives birth to a child, is that child heir to the throne?"

Tebbit, a former Tory Party chairman who served under Maragret Thatcher also said the gay marriage change would allow parents to marry their children to get out of paying.
"It's like one of my colleagues said: we've got to make these same sex marriages available to all," he said.

"It would lift my worries about inheritance tax because maybe I'd be allowed to marry my son.

"Why not? Why shouldn't a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn't two elderly sisters living together marry each other?"

He added: “I quite fancy my brother!”

Again, I will stress that these kind of people are running the country. God help us all

The guy is a loon ball.

 

[Rooter]

Just his opinion, he is 82 years old, no longer relevant and the press knew he would write their headlines for them, he is known well for being anti-gay and not one to hold back in sharing his opinion.

I blame the press for even asking him, the press have more power in "creating" opinion, scaremongering, generally telling half truths.

PS. i am not condoning his opinion, however i expect its similar to my 82 year old grandfathers opinion... times have changed, get the dinosaurs out of Westminster.

 

[Iaing]

Is he one of the " swivel eyed " loon Tories, or just one of the " normal " loon Tories?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Shows how out of touch some of our MP's are and how entrenched in the past they still are. I am sure it isn't just the conservatives and they are all as bad as each other. Have no faith in government whatever party is in charge

 

[DappaDonDave]

Someone voted for him though

 

[blackpuddinmonster]

Is he one of the " swivel eyed " loon Tories, or just one of the " normal " loon Tories?

Like the blue tit and the great tit i've always had trouble distinguishing between the two.

 

[Sweep]

The thing is he is not running the country and no-one has voted for him since the mid '80s. He is in the Lord's and I guess you could argue he has more say than the rest of us, but nowadays it is a little more than a talking shop and rarely holds the government of the day to account. He is entitled to his opinion. Personally I am not fussed but I am concerned that anyone who opposes this is labelled as anti gay which is clearly not always the case. I do think that we have more important things to be sorting out right now than this. I note that parliament managed to get this in just before yet another recess. When businesses are going to the wall, jobs are being lost, children are living in poverty, military fighting abroad, our elected representatives should be putting in more time and dealing with the really important things, just like the rest of us have to. We have survived centuries without gay marriage. We haven't survived without money and jobs.

 

[Crazyface]

I think he was pointing out what could happen if it were allowed. Just shows them at the top are thinking......about how they can save themselves a bundle of dosh!!!!!!!!!!

 

[FairwayDodger]

The thing is he is not running the country and no-one has voted for him since the mid '80s. He is in the Lord's and I guess you could argue he has more say than the rest of us, but nowadays it is a little more than a talking shop and rarely holds the government of the day to account. He is entitled to his opinion. Personally I am not fussed but I am concerned that anyone who opposes this is labelled as anti gay which is clearly not always the case. I do think that we have more important things to be sorting out right now than this. I note that parliament managed to get this in just before yet another recess. When businesses are going to the wall, jobs are being lost, children are living in poverty, military fighting abroad, our elected representatives should be putting in more time and dealing with the really important things, just like the rest of us have to. We have survived centuries without gay marriage. We haven't survived without money and jobs.

This is long overdue. It's terrible that some people in this country still can't marry the love of their life. It should be a formality that doesn't need much parliamentary time but, unfortunately, the largest party is still largely homophobic.

Despite what you say, sweep, I still haven't heard an argument against equal marriage that isn't based on discrimination.

I try to ignore tebbit..... He always was a nasty piece of work.