Final UK debate: too close to call?
29 April 2010 |permalink | email article
Tonight’s last of three historic televised debates before the elections May 6 to determine Britain’s next prime minister has taken on two interesting twists—with the traditionally two-horse race between the Labor and Conservative parties now unpredictable.
Nick Clegg, leader of the minor-party Liberal Democrats has soared to unexpected popularity in the first two rounds even as bets are now on a “hung parliament” with no party in the majority, not seen in Britain since the 1970s. Clegg could be kingmaker.
But it turns out that Clegg is an avowed atheist who has famously claimed to have slept with “no more than 30” women. Now facing current Labor Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Conservative leader David Cameron Clegg is discovering religion just in time for polling day.
Now he’s claiming that Christian values are ‘central” to his Liberal Democratic policies. “We are proud to support specific campaigns organized by Christian groups. We are in no doubt that these are policies that will make our country fairer,” he wrote in an article for The Church of England Newspaper.
But as The Telegraph noted, Clegg could not find space anywhere in the article to mention that he does not believe in God. But his wife, Miriam, a Roman Catholic, gave the sermon at an Anglican church in Surrey last Sunday.
Brown, as The Guardian described it, finally gave the media the campaign gaffe they were looking for, “that was described as nothing short of a disaster.” After spending considerable private time with a Labor supporter, Gillian Duffy, the PM later called her a “bigoted woman” because a microphone stayed on, and he was slow to apologize with dignity. Turns out Duffy’s not bigoted and the gaffe, one way or the other, could finish Brown unless Labor, finishing third in the vote, wins the most seats in Parliament.
Read ‘em and weep
Asked whether he would support deportation of natural-born American citizens that are children of illegal aliens by the federal government, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) told a “tea party” rally in the San Diego County city of Ramona last weekend: “I would have to, yes…We simply cannot afford what we’re doing right now…It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It’s what’s in our souls…” Really!
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