General Election 2010

Superstition and religion is no more a face of Conservatism, than it is a face of New Labour.

With New Labour actively and keenly promoting and legislating for a massive expansion in the handing over of young minds to the religious, devoutly religious cabinet members all the way up to a PM (who it is commonly felt sought divine guidance on starting a war) it seems silly to pluck out yet another nutter from the Conservatives and claim it proof of their particular bent towards religion.

On the subject of (my inferred) 'secrecy', you say it is not in the 'policy book', my suspicion is that it is because it is not a major part of their ideology, why do you think it is not in the 'policy book' ?

Because they want to be elected.

We are going to have to agree to disagree here, I suspect. Although we're sympathetic to one another's views of religion, I do believe being a "Conservative" does in fact mean something to a large portion of the membership (as a set of values, not just a party name). You believe Labour is just as bad, but I (in my opinion) have no doubt that were both parties to have their way, you would see a more extreme social conservatism in the enacted policies of a Conservative majority than we have seen in Labour (which has been fairly socially conservative at times, especially in regard to drug regulation).

Again, a labour member (or number of labour members) who has a conservative edge to them does neither proves that Labour is just as bad as the Conservatives, nor that the Conservative party is not conservative. It just shows Labour is fucked.