The Large Homosexual Flashmob at Tory HQ – Millbank, London. Sunday 11 April 2010
In 2010 as a Basic Election was approaching, Tamsin Omond had begun the ‘To the Commons‘ marketing campaign which made this assertion:
“The Commons is you and me. It’s the child on the skateboard, the lady struggling together with her purchasing, and the man who serves us espresso within the morning. The Commons is about having our say and getting our voices heard. It’s about looking for one another, our neighbourhoods, and our surroundings. Sure we’re a political occasion however we’re not about politics. We’re about folks.”
The message on the net ended “Vote for Tamsin Omond for Hampstead and Kilburn” the place she was standing as a candidate. It wasn’t a vastly succesful marketing campaign, and she or he ended up with solely 123 votes, towards 17, 332 for Labour’s Glenda Jackson in what was one of many closest races in 2010, with the Tory solely 42 votes behind and the Lib Dems an in depth third. We have now an electoral system and a media that’s extremely stacked towards candidates from outdoors the main events, who solely win in distinctive circumstances – akin to electing Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London, or if Corbyn was to go away Labour to face in his constituency on the subsequent election.
As part of her marketing campaign, Omond had organised the ‘Large Homosexual Flashmob’, promoting the occasion on Fb and getting Peter Tatchell of Outrage! (and later of the the Peter Tatchell Basis) to work together with her to publicise it. Over 1500 had signed as much as attend the occasion and a pretty big proportion of them turned up on the day.
Within the morning Omond and Tatchell had gone to a gathering with George Osborne, who had been shadow chancellor and was the Conservative Marketing campaign supervisor. The Tory occasion has a protracted report of homophobia and of voting towards homosexual rights, and plenty of Tory MPs voted towards the complete repeal in 2003 of Margaret Thatcher’s 1988 notorious ‘Part 28’ which banned native authorities from “selling homosexuality.”
Lately too, Shadow House Secretary Chris Grayling had prompt that Mattress and Breakfast house owners ought to be capable of refuse homosexual {couples}, and there was nonetheless a really sturdy and vocal anti-gay ingredient within the Tory occasion regardless of there being many homosexual members and homosexual Tory MPs. The nice majority of the roughly 50 who voted towards civil partnerships in 2004 had been Tory MPs and occasion chief David Cameron was towards the potential of homosexual marriage.
So the flash mob was scheduled to happen outdoors Tory Celebration HQ, then on Millbank within the Millbank Tower. There have been speeches, a lot loud chanting and plenty of kiss-ins which everybody appeared to take pleasure in.
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