It gives me no pleasure to agree with Paul Nuttall. But he is right that, with special schools being cut and closed, a new LGBT one is, well, perverse.
For one thing, Ls, Gs, Bs and Ts do not always get on. Many Ls are very anti-T. Many Gs are very anti-L, very anti-T, and very, very, very anti-B.
I have been around politics, religion and academia quite long enough to know about gay men. Regardless of education, generation or anything else, strikingly many of them just do not much like women, and are profoundly unconvinced that any man experiences genuine sexual attraction to women.
This goes quite beyond the corresponding hostility to homosexuality among heterosexual men. No one who displays that denies that homosexual attraction exists, and few believe that sex with a woman could cure it.
Whereas it is normal - not universal, and probably not the majority view, but nevertheless very common indeed - for gay men to believe that at least expertly executed sex with a man would turn any man gay, and that that was what all men really wanted.
Speaking of who really wants what, who is to be sent to this new school? Everyone who experienced same-sex attraction in adolescence? Are those who manifested such interests to be told at their existing schools that they ought to clear off to the one for people like them?
Practically all homosexuals had heterosexual experiences in early life, before deciding that such things were not for them. But an absolute taboo surrounds reporting the reverse experience. Bizarrely so, when one considers that we have the first heavily public school government in a generation.
And now, this.
The view that the other side should have won the 2010 Election will soon be as near to universal as is the view that the other side should have won the 1992 Election, with both disputed by a handful of Blairite fundamentalists and by absolutely nobody else.
Kinnock didn't want to win in 92-he had the job of European Commissioner awaiting him. The leadership of Labour was just an audition for that role. He entertained Delors just before the election.
ReplyDeletePeter Hitchens has it right on LGBT schools-we can have selection by sexual orientation but not selection by ability in our insane Leftwing education system.
By the way, what do LGBT schools have to do with the 2010 Election? ( party that lost in 2010 would have done this more enthusiastically and probably made them compulsory); Labour has already promised compulsory sex education if it wins in 2015 and previously closed every Catholic adoption agency in Britain over "LGBT rights".
The only difference between Labour and the Tories is that Labour is the more authoritarian of the two Liberal Elite parties.
party that lost in 2010 would have done this more enthusiastically and probably made them compulsory
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Every word of this comment is some dross that you heard down a pub that you shouldn't have been in. Don't you have any homework?
Ah, bless him, leave him alone. For one thing, he seems to think the Telegraph view of the Catholic Church has some kind of connection to reality, which is quite sweet.
DeleteKinnock didn't want to win and had Commissioner all lined up? Is that what they are teaching at the blue madrassas these days? Bloody hell!
DeleteYou are right of course, to say anything other than Kinnock should have won you have to say it was a good thing Major beat him, the last thing Ukip or the Tory right would say: Major was a good thing.
Same applies this year, if you don't want Miliband as PM, you must want Cameron to carry on doing things like this which didn't happen under Brown and wouldn't have done if he had carried on as PM.
Those are the only two options, Miliband and Cameron. If you don't want Miliband, you want Cameron. Even the SNP now understand that.
I assume young Anon has read this week's Hitchens column on the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill? That's not being opposed properly by Labour but there is only one major party not in the government pushing it through. Plus the Tories never properly opposed the less extreme measures in this area when Labour were in government.
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