Did you vote?

[elisi]

If I had needed a further excuse to NEVER vote for the Tories, this story would have done it. (Torchwood star John Barrowman is stunned and dismayed by British Prime Minister David Cameron's apparent support for a ban on showing same-sex kissing on U.K. television outside late-night "adult" viewing hours.)

For starters, they'd have to ban re-runs of Doctor Who...



(Many thanks to Sueworld for the link.)

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with banning such kisses until 9p.m. - provided they ban them between heterosexual couples as well.

After all it's supposed to be about the premature sexualisation of children, and most of them are going to be sexualised prematurely into heterosexuals!

[elisi]

After all it's supposed to be about the premature sexualisation of children, and most of them are going to be sexualised prematurely into heterosexuals!
Hmmm. Good point... Although can we ban anything that might turn them into Tories?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

A few years of Tory government is, sadly, the thing most likely to do that.

I know from my daughter and her university friends, from fairly mixed backgrounds, that how they voted in the last UK election was based on only one main thing 'Anything but Labour!'

Why? Because they could only really remember life under Labour; she was 9 in 1997. So they begin to think 'Things could be better than this - there must be some other way that would be better... We'll vote for whoever isn't the current lot.'

So, sadly, a few years of Tory rule is the most likely thing to put them off!

[elisi]

Yeah, I fear you are right. :(