Gav's View

No doubt Ms Warsi is a clever person, she is certainly a good talker when she appears on television, however I don’t care for her homophobia:
http://billcameron.blogspot.com/2007/07/david-cameron-and-sayeeda-warsi-is-it.html
- in a way I’m pleased she has been told to ‘go away’ by both the local hierarchy of the Conservatives in West Didsbury and by the more ‘conservative’ elements of the local moslem community (for very different reasons, both in their way reprehensible I’m afraid). It will be a travesty if she ends up in the HoL just to fill a quota in two or three separate categories (as a woman, a member of an ethnic minority and a moslem) – I’m not aware what her other merits are which might justify this, other than talking coherently and forcefully in front of the media. I keep on thinking I should re-join the Conservative Party, but then the Party comes up with a ’stunt’ like apppinting her to the Shadow Cabinet and I think better of it.

The Labour guy Shahid Malik, in contrast, really does seem to have his finger on the pulse and be pleasant and sensible with it; I may not like his politics particularly but he is certainly one of the good guys. Whilst I am deeply opposed to ‘quotas’ of any kind we certainly do need a representative sampling of all the communities in the UK in the HoC.

I’m also impressed by Shahid Malik. Less so by Sayeeda Warsi, and even less so by “Dave” Cameron.