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The lasting effects of the HFE Bill and bigots like Mary Honeyball MEP

Catholics--five million voters 53% of whom voted Labour at the last election, have been systematically attacked, undermined, and gratuitously offended by the people representing the Labour Party at all levels. The ludicrous Mary Honeyball 'MEP' is just one of them, although she has managed to elicit disagreement from some decent MPs and Labour bloggers.

Now, a new survey shows 72% of Catholics contemplating voting Conservative. Labour grew on the backs of Catholic workingmen and women, and its aims were for many years the same in terms of social justice, the improvement of people's lives in a decent society, and strong communities.

This is being sacrificed as I write. The likes of me, who is unimportant in myself, have already left the party in part because of the abuse of the decent people of all colours, both sexes and classes, and all ages who can be found in church on a Sunday morning. People like Jim Dobbin MP, who is considerably more important (and a papal Knight), are warning of what might follow.

Keep an eye on the forthcoming Glasgow by-election. It is being held in one of the most catholic constituencies in the country, and was once rock-solid Labour. The Scottish National Party, being seen as an 'orange' or ultra-protestant and secular outfit, used to find it hard to make any headway there, though years ago Jim Sillars tried on the basis of a working-class, labourist manifesto. Catholicism and the Labour Party, in formal and independent iterations, have been entwined there since the 1900s.

If Catholics go for the SNP in a big way, with English catholics already fuming, most of those five million votes which Harman, Johnson, Honeyball and others have spat at and kissed away are not going Labour next time. If Catholic activists are pushed out in the north at the same time, Labour, as a movement, is effectively done for for a very long time.

HAT TIP : The exile

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