You met Hargreaves when he was campaigning to have the dragon removed from the Welsh flag? I’m really impressed. How did you manage to keep a straight face?

On a more serious note, I think you can have legitimate objections to abortion, euthanasia and embryo experimentation, which are rationally supported. However, Hargreaves views strike me as being so extreme that he’s basically nuts. I don’t doubt that a lot of people would support the return of the death penalty, even though Pierrepoint, Britain’s last hangman, said at one point that he didn’t believe it was a deterrent, only state-sanctioned revenge.

What the Hope Not Hate article didn’t say, but which was revealed in Private Eye article about him and the Christian Party, was that they hated the welfare state and the NHS. Basically, you’re looking at someone, who’s taken over the politics of the American religious right, and wants to import it over here.

The other side of this, of course, is that the American Religious Right by and large aren’t representative of much of American Christianity. A few years ago a book appeared written by an American sociologist, The Truth about Evangelicals. This noted that there were just as many left-wing ‘conservative Christians’, that is, Christians with conservative theological views, as there were right-wing. Furthermore, left-wing evangelical Christians could be further to the left than American Roman Catholics. Put simply, while he’s par for the course for part of the milieu of American religious politics, he’s still pretty nuts.

I think Hargreaves needs to get his facts straight with regards to HIV being self inflected. In fact during 1980’s in this country and many countries this was not the case as many were given contaminated blood from the prisons in Arkansan whilst President Clinton was a governor in Arkansan. As governor he allowed prisoners to sell their blood for 7 dollars then charged people outside the prison walls 14 dollars. Many of those inside prison were from skid row and yet they were allowed to be literally drained of their blood without no limitations as to how much blood was being taken at any one time.

This little ‘blood factory’ of course developed for many the disease HIV leading to Aids and also Hep C. Many were infected with the disease not leaving here in the UK out. Over 2,000 people have died from being infected this way since 1980 and they are still dying to this day. The majority of the population were Haemophiliacs however there were other people given infected blood during that time, those who had visited their dentists, were pregnant to name but a few. Partners were also infected unknowingly when they were unaware that one partner was already infected.

So to say that people who have developed HIV – AIDS is self inflected, no sorry Mr Hargreaeves you have it wrong, very very wrong. May I suggest you get your facts straight before you start spouting.

Also as a Christian how can you be so inconsiderate to those less fortunate than yourself, you are a disgrace to Christianity.