Originally Posted by ENGLISH UNIONIST

I voted for Duncan-Smith who, let it not be forgotten, unsuccessfullyintroduced a Bill, the European Communiites (European Courts) Bill, in 1996, which would have amended the European Communities Act 1972 to give the United Kingdom Parliament a right to review judgements and doctrines of the European Court of Justice, and overrule those considered contrary to the original domestic legislation. Currently the ECJ acts to uphold EU laws over laws made by national parliaments of EU member-states.

Duncan-Smith also unsuccessfully tried to move an amendment to the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Bill to safeguard the need for any child - conceived via IVF treatment - to have a father, despite the evidence that children who have fathers tend to be healthier and more democratic and law-abiding than those born to single mothers and lesbian couples who don't.

Compare this to "that bloody woman" who did the most unconservative things, e.g., signing the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement (which afforded the Government of the hated Irish Republic a say in Northern Ireland's affairs) and signing the 1986 Single European Act.

Insofar as homosexuals and homosexuality is concerned, I really do feel this is a matter for discussion on another topic, although I have always taken the view that being homosexual is no lesser – or no greater – sin than being heterosexual, and by singling-out gay men and lesbians for discrimination, others lay themselves open to the charge of being homophobic. Not all homosexuals (myself included) are interested in buggery but all, wthout exception, are sexually attracted to other men.