| Comment | The DUP was never part of the UK government. That's just factually incorrect.
>The recent UK Minister for Health, Maria Caulfield (who was thankfully demoted by Sunak), voted against buffer zones outside abortion clinics and against legalising abortion in Northern Ireland.
So what? The UK has always had a tradition of designating issues like abortion as "conscience votes" for which MPs are not whipped. It is precisely this which distinguishes us from the US where these issues are rigidly enforced by the open primary system which makes it effectively impossible for, for example, a pro-choice candidate to become the Republican nominee.
>And those same US groups are lobbying hard here in the UK with the backing of big money. The Alliance Defending Freedom, for example, have a big UK presence and are regularly invited to speak on news programmes against buffer zones.
How's that going for them? |
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