ConHome not on-message with Coalition
After hailing the Coalition’s radicalism, even with caveats, you would think that Conservative Home would remain fairly friendly towards the Liberal Democrats. Judging from the below image, I think somebody needs to inform the admins of Conservative Home’s McCarthyist Left Watch.
In a typically asinine post Jonathan Isaby declares “The Green Party now wants to restrict my freedom of choice and stop me eating meat.” Was this a new manifesto promise? Nope, just a proposition for Meat Free Mondays:
Quite simply, the party’s leader and sole MP, Caroline Lucas, wants to ban me and everyone else working on the parliamentary estate from being able to eat meat on Mondays. She has written to the parliamentary catering authorities asking them to provide, on one day a week, “a totally animal-free menu in order to help tackle the world’s environmental and other problems”.
The attempt to change the menu of a private establishment through writing to someone hardly merits accusations of being “uncuddly, far-left, statist and authoritarian” in my book, but that is Isaby for you.
What caught my eye was the rather fetching “Left Watch” motif running across the top of the page – I’m sure the Tory’s coalition partners will just love it too.
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If someone tried to tell me I couldn’t eat meat on Mondays I’d be b***** annoyed!
richard (or dick should i call you) ,is anyone telling you you CAN’T eat meat? is it a law? typical knocking down straw men
Someone might want to point out to Mr. Isaby that there are in fact places to get your lunch from outside the Parliamentary estate as well. Like, for example, a Tesco’s ministore on the corner of the block of Portcullis House?
Having met him it would be most ungallant of me to point out that perhaps tottering off for, ooooh, two hundred yards or so to pick up a few hundred calories might not actually be all that bad an idea for him.
I am sure that LibDems welcome the fact that ConHome is maintaining its antagonism towards the party. If ConHome fell in love with the LibDems, the latter would have something quite serious to worry about.
Likewise, I expect that the liberal wing of the Conservative party use ConHome as a barometer of illiberalism. If a coalition measure upsets the ConHome team, it is probably the correct thing to do.
Obviously banning eating meat would be terribly illiberal. However, the only similar illiberal measure I can think of is when the Conservative party tried to ban types of music in the 1990s. They enacted the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, with the intention of banning raves and defined the music played at a rave as:
“music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.
–Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994[10]
Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act empowered police to stop a rave in the open air when a hundred or more people are attending, or where two or more are making preparations for a rave. Section 65 allows any uniformed constable who believes a person is on their way to a rave within a five-mile radius to stop them and direct them away from the area.
I guess this explains why the conservatives don’t like Jamie Oliver either. They just hate being told what’s good for them?
Still, I’m a bit disappointed in Caroline Lucas. Surely she’s got better things to fill her time with than worrying about the menu provided at what’s essentially a private member’s club? So long as there’s a meat-free option, it’s all good, right?
Meat Free Monday is a campaign I think to get everyone to have one day a week meat free. As a big portion of her supporters are veggies I don’t see taking 5 minutes out of her day to write to someone as a large imposition on Lucas’s time.
Silly season stuff from Isaby, 90% of the ConHome commenters lapped it up sadly. Nothing banned, just recommendations on the menu and it provokes this shit storm.
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- Liberal Conspiracy
ConHome not on-message with Coalition just yet http://bit.ly/aTojSS
- Soho Politico
Jonathan @Isaby thinks it's an attack on his freedom when restaurants don't serve the food he wants: http://t.co/TdkeCpt via @libcon
- Gareth Winchester
RT @SohoPolitico: Jonathan @Isaby thinks it's an attack on his freedom when restaurants don't serve the food he wants: http://t.co/TdkeCpt via @libcon
- Left Outside
ConHome not on-message with Coalition just yet | Liberal Conspiracy http://t.co/DvoAcUE via @libcon
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