Dear All
Labour MP Jim Murphy is a desperate man; his fear of losing his seat at the General Election to the Tories in East Renfrewshire is very real.
A few months back he hit on a scheme to target religious groups under the banner, ‘Stop the BNP’ but in reality it wasn’t because the BNP represented a threat but because Murphy is struggling to get people to actively campaign in his area.
In the political economy, three things count, money, resources and manpower.
He has taken his idea slightly further and said that religion should play a role in British politics.
This is a complete nonsense and a smoke screen to start a recruitment drive for volunteers and votes.
The SNP have replied to this idea by saying this has all the hallmarks of "crude electioneering" to try to "corner the market regarding people's faith".
The Labour Party position before was set out by former Labour communications Chief Alastair Campbell who famously said;
"We don't do God".
The reason that Balir avoided talking about his religious views was fear of being labelled "a nutter".
We saw later that was exactly what Blair was, a religious nutter who followed George W Bush on the crusades.
At the end of his ‘War on Terror’ across the Middle East, Blair came back, retired and started coining in huge sums of money.
The use of religion is dangerous in politics, people should not elect politicians on what faith if any they have but on the person elected will do for them while in public office.
A spokesman for SNP leader Alex Salmond said;
"Politicians are fully entitled to declare their personal testament, as the first minister has done and indeed would encourage others to do so. However, it is quite a different matter to make any suggestion that a political party should seek to corner the market regarding people's faith. To do so would be absurd, unreal, and bear the hallmarks of crude electioneering, which would backfire rather badly”.
This is a cynical attempt to manipulate people of faith of political purposes and I hope that people see through this.
There is a reason why there is a separation of church and state, it was done to break down barriers and offer each person liberty to practice what faith they believed in.
Murphy yet again shows why the people of East Renfrewshire badly need to terminate his career in public office.
Religion should not be used as a power base in politics and that goes for all political parties.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Labour MP Jim Murphy is a desperate man; his fear of losing his seat at the General Election to the Tories in East Renfrewshire is very real.
A few months back he hit on a scheme to target religious groups under the banner, ‘Stop the BNP’ but in reality it wasn’t because the BNP represented a threat but because Murphy is struggling to get people to actively campaign in his area.
In the political economy, three things count, money, resources and manpower.
He has taken his idea slightly further and said that religion should play a role in British politics.
This is a complete nonsense and a smoke screen to start a recruitment drive for volunteers and votes.
The SNP have replied to this idea by saying this has all the hallmarks of "crude electioneering" to try to "corner the market regarding people's faith".
The Labour Party position before was set out by former Labour communications Chief Alastair Campbell who famously said;
"We don't do God".
The reason that Balir avoided talking about his religious views was fear of being labelled "a nutter".
We saw later that was exactly what Blair was, a religious nutter who followed George W Bush on the crusades.
At the end of his ‘War on Terror’ across the Middle East, Blair came back, retired and started coining in huge sums of money.
The use of religion is dangerous in politics, people should not elect politicians on what faith if any they have but on the person elected will do for them while in public office.
A spokesman for SNP leader Alex Salmond said;
"Politicians are fully entitled to declare their personal testament, as the first minister has done and indeed would encourage others to do so. However, it is quite a different matter to make any suggestion that a political party should seek to corner the market regarding people's faith. To do so would be absurd, unreal, and bear the hallmarks of crude electioneering, which would backfire rather badly”.
This is a cynical attempt to manipulate people of faith of political purposes and I hope that people see through this.
There is a reason why there is a separation of church and state, it was done to break down barriers and offer each person liberty to practice what faith they believed in.
Murphy yet again shows why the people of East Renfrewshire badly need to terminate his career in public office.
Religion should not be used as a power base in politics and that goes for all political parties.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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