Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Saturday, 22 December 2007
Civil Rights, Civil Wrongs
Two years on from the much-trumpeted Civil Partnerships Act, and how many are there? The first dissolutions are under way. And the whole thing remains restricted to unrelated persons of the same sex. Unrelated persons of opposite sexes have of course the option of civil marriage. But related persons sharing a home have no option at all, even though a civil partnership does not need to be consummated, presumably because nobody could work out what might or might not qualify for this purpose. Yet related persons are extremely unlikely to seek a dissolution. When will this injustice be dealt with?
This at least is one thing the Tories did call for when the nonsense was going through Parliament. Thinking of changing your vote?
ReplyDeleteTo Cameron? Hardly!
ReplyDeleteLike Labour, the Tories are in their final generation. And when those two go, so will the Lib Dems.