MP on board in Springer supermarket campaign
Via bloggerheads: Lynne Featherstone, MP for Hornesy and Wood Green has joined the campaign to get Woolies and Sainsbury to reconsider their JS: TO ban.
From her blog:
I know that toleration of other people’s religious views is important, but bowing to such a small number of people on what is after all a freedom of speech issue (the DVD is legal, it has a proper classification etc.) is really poor. I’m sure that the vast majority of Christians – as well as people of no religion or other religions – know that freedom of speech is something to be cherished and involves letting other people say or do things that you might not agree with or like.
Good tips include writing to your local MP, and the chief execs of the stores:
– Justin King, Sainsbury’s, 35 Holborn, London, EC1N 2HT
– Trevor Bish-Jones, Woolworths PLC, Woolworths House, 242-246 Marylebone Road, NW1 6JL.
Bravo Lynne!
at last, the voice of reason.
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Why can’t we have more politicians with this kind of attitude, instead of them cow towing to the religious repressives all the time ?
I look forward to her asking a question regarding religous based censorship in the next PMQs, or at the next reading of the religous hatred bill.
Yay! She’s my MP, and I voted for her on the grounds that she seemed very sensible and wasn’t Barbara Roche, the human toad.
So far, Lynne has been an excellent MP and voted just the way I’d’ve wanted on all of the big issues of this parliament. She’s ace!