UK - Cameron has thrown away his authority as Tory leader over an issue utterly irrelevant to the nation’s problems. Is he mad?

Forcing through the same-sex marriage Bill will bring Cameron down: his determination to do it shows how out of touch he has become

by William Oddie

The bill still needs to be approved by the House of Lords...

It is now becoming clear that marriage, more than Europe or the economy, is the issue which more than any other will lose the next election for the Tories. 

They cannot now win. According to a ComRes poll, taken this month, quoted by the rather well-written letter handed in at 10 Downing Street yesterday by 25 Tory local party chairmen, 20 per cent of those who voted Conservative in 2010 agree with the statement “I would have considered voting Conservative at the next election but will definitely not if the Coalition Government legalises same-sex marriage”. 

That includes me: I voted Tory in 2010 — I didn’t just want rid of Brown, in my naivety, I was attracted by the idea of The Big Society, as were other Catholics, including Archbishop Nichols (maybe that should have made me think). 

That turned out to be an empty slogan. 

Now Cameron is about to enact same-sex “marriage”, which did not figure, either in his election manifesto or in the coalition agreement.

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