tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617194.post7036632057997407163..comments2024-03-07T06:52:34.516+00:00Comments on Exiled Preacher: Shall the last be first?Guy Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09184743462264437085noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617194.post-69918350249386760072010-05-09T14:34:48.907+01:002010-05-09T14:34:48.907+01:00I posted this just after Brown's statement out...I posted this just after Brown's statement outside no. 10 and it was rapidly overtaken by events. <br /><br />Interesting to see how Lib/Con dialogue proceeds. <br /><br />I'm undecided on the merits of PR.<br /><br />Tories don't seem to be quite so strident in their secularism. E.g. They supported free speech amendments to the Lab govt's sexual orientation legislation. <br /><br />Doesn't mean that I'm an enthusiastic Conservative. They are least worst option at best.Guy Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09184743462264437085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617194.post-640115921016449502010-05-08T20:05:31.729+01:002010-05-08T20:05:31.729+01:00There's nothing straightforward here, it seems...There's nothing straightforward here, it seems to me. My observations: that the percentage of <b>non</b>-voters is about equivalent to the percentage of Conservative voters; and that of those eligible to vote, less than a quarter of them went out to vote Conservative!<br /><br />Party politics is filled with tensions for Christians. (And I so appreciated your three Q&A's, btw!) But a model of collaborative government (PR?) may well give more opportunity than the current system!<br /><br />On the specific matter of 'secularizing' ... is there <i>anything</i> to distinguish the main political parties? Surely 'secularity' (is that a word?) is fundamental to each main party.David Reimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17886492671751634816noreply@blogger.com