2015 UK General Election

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Holy shit, what is this?

For real, Milliband is trying to censor free speech? I can't believe it! What a fucking moron. It's a terrible idea, and that's got to cost him votes surely unless he is sucking up to the Muslim population I guess.

Wow. Definitely no labour then. That is proper mental. I always found him a bit dodgy, but that's way over the line.

Edit: I'm a bit confused after reading that article. Is he talking about making criticism of Islam into "hate speech"? Of course no one should be discriminated against, or attacked, or hate speeched against; I thought we already had laws regarding that. What is he getting at? If he is saying I can't slag off the Quran, he is proper nuts.

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Islamophobia: irrational fear of Islam. This is going to be made a crime!? "That guy looks irrationally scared! Book him!"

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse...mediately/

All of the parties are doing it. You know we have a law that effectively outlaws criticising religion yes?

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...d-act-2006

As someone who has studied religion as part of a research degree I know first hand the lengths that political candidates will go to to kowtow to religious sensibilities. That legislation is fucking insane and is one of the worse pieces of law I've ever seen drafted and pushed through parliament.

No party will deviate from it because we've somehow managed to instill in our general social cohesion discourse that a big part of that is not offending anyone.

As to how I will vote, I'm an advocate of green policies being pushed up the agenda but I think the green party is fucking nuts. Completely unrealistic goals in envorinmental issues which also happen to be complete unfunded, even with scrapping Trident. I'm 100% pro nuiclear, as it's the only viable 'clean' energy source we have going at the moment, and the Greens want to scrap that, so if you enjoy blackouts then Green is the party for you (not to mention their leader is useless *cough* radio 4 interview).

So I will probably spoil my vote or vote Lib Dem as they're the only party that I sort of like (I'm also not hung up on the whole tuition fee bollocks like most people who don't know how tuition fees work).

BTW, if people want to see where the parties stand on religious issues, this is a good chart: