But what do you really think?

[andrewducker]

The ever vigilant Brandnewgun pointed me towards this set of responses to a Christian lobbying group by the major parties.

It basically confirmed that I'd be voting Lib-Dem if I hadn't fucked up my voting record when I moved house.

"Does your party consider that marriage, delaying sexual activity and parental responsibility should be prioritised in sex education?"

Labour:"Sex education should be presented in a context that values stable relationships, healthy living and personal responsibility and firmly sets sex within the wider context of health education, religious and moral education, and personal and social development."

SNP:"The SNP believe that appropriate sexual education should be communicated in our schools."

Tories: "Parents can only be reassured on this issue when they have adequate powers at first hand to prevent the permissive approach to sex education which has conspicuously failed our western society".

Lib-Dem: "The Scottish Liberal Democrats want a system of sex education that instils self-respect into young people and challenges them to face up to the complacency and risk taking that appears to be growing in Scotland.
Liberal Democrats support the provision of advice on sexual health in schools but would want to make sure that distribution of contraceptives and, indeed, medication is only carried out by properly trained health professionals."

Which leads me to think that I'd never vote for the Conservatives, the SNP don't want to admit to their policies, Labour are too keen to include standpoints I don't care for and the Lib-Dems are too reasonable to ever be elected.

Comments

[allorin.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but what exactly was wrong with what Labour said?

[andrewducker]

It had this word in it religious.

I am against schools teaching people morality based on mythology and pre-scientific ideas.

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

also labour are evil liars and what they say is irrelevant.

I mean so is everyone else, but them more than most.

[andrewducker]

Actually, the conservatives have been consistently less reliable and the SNP are as bad as them. I haven't seen any reason to think that Labour are worse than any other party.

Especially as they brought in the minimum wage, abolished hereditary membership of the house of Lords and have been pumping vast amounts of money into the NHS (not enough, but far better than it has been for 15 years).

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Gods, seeing statements like this makes me feel like I'm living in a repressive theocracy. Only moderate or liberal Republicans would dare say anything as like the Tories did (most conservatives in the US simply wish to abolish all sex-ed) and the Labor position is considerably to the left of many Democrats.

I am curious about how the Tories think the permissive approach to sex education which has conspicuously failed our western society, I don't see that at all. Also, what's the SNP?

[andrewducker]

Scots Nationalist Party. Left-leaning party that believe Scotland should return to independence. They have a few good arguments for it too. The idea of many small states is one that seems to be generally more efficient and socially friendly than one large one.

On the other hand they're rather more socialist than I'm comfortable with.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

On the other hand they're rather more socialist than I'm comfortable with.

Sounds like I'd like them :) (although admittedly their comments about sex-ed were amazingly uninformative, which in the US at least is never a good sign, and usually means they are crypto-fundys.