tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post2873618414026926581..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: 5 Places Lower Than Alan Carr & 51 Higher Than Elton JohnIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-28446368303637778312009-07-02T00:12:25.561+01:002009-07-02T00:12:25.561+01:00A new councillor "came out" after a gene...A new councillor "came out" after a generous slug of gin at a recent party c3am. The overwhelming response was "so what"? Our only concern was that he was probably too badly dressed for the news to be taken seriously.<br /><br />The Tory party of 2009 is a differentand much better beast than the Tory Party I joined in 1978. Long may it continue.aredbridgebluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836028163225833460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-6581362921927235732009-06-30T16:01:55.925+01:002009-06-30T16:01:55.925+01:00I notice quite a few comments along the lines of &...I notice quite a few comments along the lines of 'why would I be interested in this?' (you obviously care enough to comment) and 'why do the gays parade their sexuality in public?' <br /><br />In my experiance the latter comment is often made by people who have photo's of their (opposite sex) spouse and children on their desks!<br /><br />I do question what this list is supposed to contribute though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-73283787380402415382009-06-28T23:22:14.306+01:002009-06-28T23:22:14.306+01:00"wrinkled as an old pear"
As an old pea..."wrinkled as an old pear"<br /><br />As an old pear of what?stevealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182764243589433577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-47248151266022362682009-06-28T23:01:15.468+01:002009-06-28T23:01:15.468+01:00The Grim Reaper said at 6.56pm today: "[this]...The Grim Reaper said at 6.56pm today: <i>"[this] will inevitably mean Iain appearing far more often on Sky News to talk about the newspapers."</i> <br /><br />Lord Iain of Dale said on Twitter around 10pm: <i>"Just arrived at Sky News to do the paper review at 10.15 and 11.30pm. Sundays it's a solo shift..."</i> <br /><br />Amazing what The Grim Reaper's able to foresee...The Grim Reaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05543130733645367498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-42026169197770278322009-06-28T22:25:48.166+01:002009-06-28T22:25:48.166+01:00Good point, Canvas
several old school tories on h...Good point, Canvas<br /><br />several old school tories on here - unless someone's got a huge, fat streak of irony that's gone beyond a joke. <br /><br />one day, it won't matter. Today, it still does. And this is Pride Week. 40 years since the Stonewall riots. Without them, we'd still be languishing in the stone age and nobody would be printing any lists.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03236283426113684923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-36105139679507460612009-06-28T22:20:28.333+01:002009-06-28T22:20:28.333+01:00I think you are being too optimistic Iain. Homoph...I think you are being too optimistic Iain. Homophobic attitudes are still pervasive (just look at Bird's shock at the thought that a straight soldier might have to share barracks with gay colleagues; or trevorsden's lazy equation of homosequality with dress-making). Unfortunately, many of those views are still prevalent in the Conservative party. Ambitious MPs and aspirant MPs might have learned how to keep a lid on their views, but a significant number of Tory MPs come out with quite breathtakingly bigoted comments in private. I have worked in Parliament for almost a decade and I've heard them. One of the reasons Speaker Bercow is so detested by some members of his former party is because he's supported an equal age of consent and gay adoption.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-57536692272418498832009-06-28T21:55:56.565+01:002009-06-28T21:55:56.565+01:00After all, no one would publish a Top 100 Straight...<i>After all, no one would publish a Top 100 Straights list, would they?</i><br /><br />Maybe they should? How about Total Politics organising such a list, Iain?<br /><br />If it were published, it might show up so-called Pink Lists as being equally silly ideas.Martin Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148241391183658112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76186139179624460402009-06-28T21:28:21.807+01:002009-06-28T21:28:21.807+01:00canvas said.
I know many people of my generation ...canvas said.<br /> I know many people of my generation feel the same way - never trust a Tory. :))<br /><br /><br />June 28, 2009 9:03 PM<br /><br />are all these people you know as loony as you ?rampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-55011720136796305132009-06-28T21:03:02.626+01:002009-06-28T21:03:02.626+01:00"Nowadays it's different. The shock facto..."Nowadays it's different. The shock factor has disappeared "<br /><br />Is it, Iain, really? <br /><br />Maybe that's the case for my generation, and DC's generation... But there are alot of old school 'closet case Tories' out there and quite frankly they are terrifying.<br /><br /><br />I don't actually believe DC can 'modernise' the Tory party until he gets rid of the old school conservatives. I know many people of my generation feel the same way - never trust a Tory. :))Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-9389975603268973682009-06-28T20:47:33.389+01:002009-06-28T20:47:33.389+01:00Anonymong said:
"All these stupid lists do is...Anonymong said:<br />"All these stupid lists do is encourage seperatism."<br /><br />Listen pal, I don't care whether you are gay, i, stright, pink, black, yellow, purple, atheist, muslim or carnivore, but....<br /><br />... the word is sepAratism, from the word separate, not "seperate". <br /><br />Go that? Good, because on spelling we have zero tolerance.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13775753218753337766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20664917199184727502009-06-28T20:09:41.910+01:002009-06-28T20:09:41.910+01:00We already have an openly gay Prime Minister - he&...We already have an openly gay Prime Minister - he's called Peter Mandelson.<br /><br />Scary Mary said <i>"I always thought gays were meant to be sexy and fashionable?"</i> <br /><br />Iain's ties aren't that bad.The Grim Reaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05543130733645367498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-51511536094562423392009-06-28T19:45:03.111+01:002009-06-28T19:45:03.111+01:00This is a perfect example of the controlled media ...This is a perfect example of the controlled media deliberately and covertly "brain washing" the population by subversive manipulation. It happens all the time of course.<br /><br />Here the normality of homosexuality is being rammed down our throats once again. Why, when clearly this condition is very abnormal? I am not suggesting that homosexuals should be villified at all, simply that their condition is clearly unnatural and abnormal and we should not be forced in any way of believing it is normal. <br /><br />Hopefully, as medicine progresses, we can help these individuals to reverse their abnormality and all effort should be made to assist them to return to amore traditional and indeed acceptable (to some) lifestyle.<br /><br />BTW, I think you will find that Heath was not only a traitor but also a homosxual.English Firsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13423078454157177708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-39829328365202600222009-06-28T19:00:02.968+01:002009-06-28T19:00:02.968+01:00ah.... yes... of course. Law and Justice are on a...ah.... yes... of course. Law and Justice are on a *biblical* swing. I'd forgotten the blood-drinking deity came into this. <br /><br />If Cameron's going to remove the distinction between the blood-drinker's church and the state, I'm out of here.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03236283426113684923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76690808161727780782009-06-28T18:54:05.918+01:002009-06-28T18:54:05.918+01:00Guthrum, I was going to have my photo taken for th...Guthrum, I was going to have my photo taken for the S/M top 100 but Mistress wouldn't let me, now if you'll excuse me I've got to go back under the stairs.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10904181998734097782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62199125494273441962009-06-28T18:52:52.253+01:002009-06-28T18:52:52.253+01:00Bird
A few years ago the leader of one of the tea...Bird<br /><br />A few years ago the leader of one of the teaching unions was an avowed Maoist - to me this is at least on a par with the BNP's Nazism lite<br /><br />Did we hear any mainstream politicians decrying this state of affairs - most certianly not.<br /><br />There seems to be a tendency in the political arena to excuse far left ideology in a way that wouldn't happen with the right.<br /><br />Both are equally offensive in my book.<br /><br />Does anyone think Alistair Darling would be Chancellor if he was a neo-Nazi rather than a Communist in his student days.<br /><br />Or Barroso the head of the EU if he'd been an admirer of Hitler rather than Mao in the 70s<br /><br />Double standards all round.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62129550917076417252009-06-28T18:51:09.802+01:002009-06-28T18:51:09.802+01:00I think I know 3 names from the ones Iain mentione...I think I know 3 names from the ones Iain mentiones. Says it all really.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-35245156933328874852009-06-28T18:46:37.663+01:002009-06-28T18:46:37.663+01:00@Guthrum
"Sexuality" does convey someth...@Guthrum<br /><br />"Sexuality" does convey something of note. I.e. who one wants to love and/or f**k. That has quite significant social, financial, and sociological implications whether you like it or not.Paul Halsallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01602075031268155220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-9781296512874840532009-06-28T18:33:09.385+01:002009-06-28T18:33:09.385+01:00Why do people feel so insecure that they create th...Why do people feel so insecure that they create these lists in the first place. when we see the end of the lists we will soo that we no take people as we find them.<br /><br />Mandelson must be the most overrated and damaging gay in the country. Gives gays a bad name. Someone should have a word with him - perhaps he could take up dress designing.<br /><br />And John of Enfield - this is not a message board it is a blog ('politics gossip humour commentary). And since the blogger IS gay - well you cannot expect him to talk about football can you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-5536732366614884652009-06-28T18:25:56.079+01:002009-06-28T18:25:56.079+01:00Not interested in you all parading your sexuality ...Not interested in you all parading your sexuality as if it conveyed anything of any note.<br /><br />Are we going to have the S&M practitioners top 100 next year?<br /><br />BizarreGuthrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-17852782539759447282009-06-28T18:05:10.298+01:002009-06-28T18:05:10.298+01:00I always thought gays were meant to be sexy and fa...I always thought gays were meant to be sexy and fashionable? That list is munterville (you excluded of course Iain ;-) )Scary Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16608730934046862405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-56651813629671434462009-06-28T18:04:29.710+01:002009-06-28T18:04:29.710+01:00Let's hope the new intake of hard-line reactio...Let's hope the new intake of hard-line reactionaries don't drive people back into the closet. What's the line: juvenile experiment, now gotten over it?Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-82879577997201876762009-06-28T18:04:23.797+01:002009-06-28T18:04:23.797+01:00I think Clinton was well advised in saying "d...I think Clinton was well advised in saying "don't ask", "don't tell" in the armed forces.<br />Try to imagine a young "straight" recruit having to share a cabin or barrack room with one or two openly gay colleagues.<br />Don't expect a young lad from Redruth or Barnsley to be confident or sophisticated enough to cope.<br /><br />Changing the subject slightly:<br />The loony left National Union of Teachers is trying to ban BNP members from teaching posts.<br />Anyone with any experience of teaching knows that whatever you say to children goes straight back to parents at the end of the day.<br />There would be no chance of right wing brainwashing.<br />Even Trotskyite NUT members, of which there are many, have more sense to prosletise in school.<br />My experience is that teachers leave their political views at home. Otherwise they would be sacked.Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12161658443183028628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80608472770110286312009-06-28T17:50:55.177+01:002009-06-28T17:50:55.177+01:00This wheedling to justify a dodgy european deal fl...This wheedling to justify a dodgy european deal flies in the stance taken on your Iris Robinson threadsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-12400712477974153052009-06-28T17:46:54.641+01:002009-06-28T17:46:54.641+01:00I don't go around parading my sexual preferenc...I don't go around parading my sexual preferences in public. <br /><br />Why should I be interested in yours, Iain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-32003628836099049942009-06-28T17:38:37.117+01:002009-06-28T17:38:37.117+01:00I though Elton John was dead.I though Elton John was dead.Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136388438458700932noreply@blogger.com