Tory MP 'comes out' as atheist.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I think DC is one of the biggest threats to secularism and general freedom in the UK.

He's already effectively come out as wanting to ban porn for example, and has made strides to that end through legislation. There has been a movement under the Labour Party over the last few decades called christian socialism which was very influential over many new labour politicians, notably Blair and several Blairites. It's a very, very complex issue as British politics has effectively all been centre right for the last 40 years, but this has in part been as a result of strong christian influences in several political machinations.

One thing we have going for us that, say, the U.S. doesn't is that increasingly the majority 'religious' demographic here throughout England and Wales is non-religious, which means there's little to no stigma from that demographic towards non-religious MPs. Weirdly this isnt reflected in the media (understandable in the right leaning newspapers, which is almost all of them) where non-religion is treated with suspicion and derision (remember Ed Miliband's quick wedding when the Daily Mail effectively asked how anyone could vote for someone that wasn't married? Lol). But hey, maybe that's one reason why their circulation has been going down continuously for a decade?

UK politicians today are mostly medicore, rising through the ranks of parties from being SPADS (special advisors) to joining as junior candidates and quickly being elevated to being junior (shadow) ministers. They're representative of a 'push for the centre' politics where policies and people are pretty much bland and uninteresting. There's nothing wrong with that necessarily, and arguably it's better than a politics which swings to the left and right wildly. But there's nothing inspiring about them. They're just an increasingly out of touch image of the elite which have very little in common with the people they represent.