Boris is wrong – LGBT people should oppose Brexit | openDemocracy
!['Lesbian Angels' [Image: Diricia De Wet. Johannesburg, South Africa].](https://voxpoliticalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/160405LGBT.png)
‘Lesbian Angels’ [Image: Diricia De Wet. Johannesburg, South Africa].
The Thatcher government constituted 17 years’ repression of LGBT people. Don’t let him whitewash his party’s past so he can misleadingly tar the EU instead.
In his recent video for the LGBT Brexit group, ‘Out and Proud’ Boris Johnson, with typical disregard for the facts, asserted that the U.K.’s progressive attitudes on LGBT rights were entirely the work of “us, the British people”. By implication, ‘Europe’ had contributed nothing. The reality is very different. Europe’s two main organisations, the Council of Europe and the EU together did much to create the momentum for change in the late 1990s and early 2000’s. This followed 17 years of Conservative government which, far from progressing LGBT rights, supported the introduction of a law that prohibited local authorities from “promoting” homosexuality.
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Boris is the Trojan horse (ne donkey) for Ian Duncan Smith. If its UK out of EU , its Boris in, then out steps IDS to cut off everything we’ve got left. We’ve got to stop him, if we watch him, we’re dead.
wonder if thicko Johnson has bearer shares and listed in possible tax avoidance. he has the integrity of a sewer rat. we certainly dont want him as an MP or London mayor. please dont give him credibility as the next PM.
Please don’t insult sewer rats.