No one has responded to your survey of candidates. You made the mistake of mentioning MORAL ISSUES. People don’t do morality anymore. As to what you say, I think Mr Gallant is probably too much of a gentleman to say what needs to be said about the opposition. The opposition is Rupa Huq. You suggest she is two-faced in respect of her Islamic “background”. Islam is far from being her background. She was a speaker at a meeting of Arab Labour and, while she opposes fox-hunting as barbaric and cruel, she not only supports halal slaughter in ignorance of the scientific evidence but has gratuitously accused people who are opposed to it of being racist for no other reason that they are opposed to it. She claims to be opposed to racism but defended the anti-semitic posts of Naz Shah. Her record, when one examines in what she has written, reveals her in her true character. I and neighbours have written to her about a variety of specific issues. She ignores correspondence and fails to make herself accountable for her behaviour. Accountability is one of the Seven Principles of Public Life. Her failure to conform to it alone, even without consideration of the matters I raise above, marks her out as UNFIT FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. As to abortion, my first thought is I am glad it didn’t happen to me! Happily I was born in more moral times.
Andrew Farmer ● 2306d