My point is that banging on about how great and rare british liberalism is, when this story’s actually about how the French are much the same, seems odd.
My comment was intended to highlight the fact that we’ve not had a minimum of 350,000 on the streets protesting against gay marriage.
Which was also the op’s point, as far as I can tell from his post:
22 miles of water with a seemingly different attitude to the same issues.
But not in the case of gay marriage. About a dozen countries have legalized gay marriage, including Argentina and South Africa, but Britain isn’t one of them.
True Ernie, but hopefully only a matter of time.
Cameron seems fully aware that legalizing gay marriage will enable him to counter ‘nasty party’ accusations with some partial legitimacy, on one issue at least.
I’m not sure there is any country which is signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights where there is such widespread opposition to Human Rights legislation – hardly a day passes without the press slagging off the HRA. And both the Prime minister and Home Secretary have publicly said they would like to scrap it.
Good point – both this and the previous governments have attempted to impose limits on the freedom of the individual and have belittled the HRA.
However this hasn’t exactly proved popular with the public.
The steady drip drip of rhetoric seems set to continue however – the government seems determined to convince us that to protect our enshrined freedom we first have to give it up.
