Sunday 29 July 2007

The Tatch & The Hitch

Peter Tatchell was on Any Questions? this week. Would a heterosexual man who advocated lowering the age of consent to 14, and who has in the past put into print the view that sex between adults and children as young as nine was not necessarily abusive, be welcomed onto that august panel?

Still, Tatchell has apparently been adopted as the Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for Oxford East. Is that, one wonders, where Peter Hitchens lives, since he certainly lives in Oxford? If so, then will his “anyone but the Tories” stance extend to voting for Tatchell and urging others to do so? Or will he take the opportunity to put up? Perhaps neither, if we economically social-democratic, morally and socially conservative British patriots make a point of providing our own alternative.

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