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The death of irony, for a bit.

I think we can agree that a more interesting week was had by all this time. Well, I say all but Imreferring directly to the people thatbother to taken an interest in the act of reading the news asopposed to viewing it as arbitrary act. More on them another time. I suppose the source of anyinformation can directly influence whether one takes and interest or not given that saidinformation is commonly twisted to fit an organisations own agenda. For example, gaymarriage has almost been legalised which should be seen as the death of bureaucratic andreligious homophobia but The Daily Mail would have you believe that its actually the death ofmorality and an advertisement for Britains trend for guilt based tolerance.

The gay marriage bill was passed in parliament and looks certain to become law once its beendragged through the House of Lords later this year. This is a very real victory for equality but,as we have come to expect from the Tory Party, this certain triumph was overshadowed by anunimaginable display of homophobia. David Cameron, charged by his own party with the jobof restoring their imagined popularity, faced a fierce revolt and failed to get a majority votefrom his own people. How embarrassing must that have been for him?

Among the horrendous displays of awfulness Edward Leigh offered this as an argument againsttwo people spending there lives how ever they want to.

We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage otherwise
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what, I ask, is a Conservative Party for? We are alienating people who have voted for us for all their lives,leaving them with no one to vote for.

This is a very good question and Im glad that a party member is as confused as the rest of us.What is a Conservative Party for? They provide us with ONE public service and that is the roleof the pantomime villain. I need someone to detest just as much as the next guy so it might as

well be someone who truly deserves every ounce of my hatred.

Speaking of Mr. Cameron (boo) he had this to say on the subject before completely disappearingwhile the bill was fought over. He stood over the decomposing corpse of irony, feverishlygrinning at his own insolence and offered this eulogy.

I dont support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am aconservative.

Here lies irony, killed by a moon-faced Prime Minister. R.I.P

Victories for the gay community were happening all over the shop werent they? My favouritestory of the week came in the guise of one of the most prominent members of the Westbro BaptistChurch defecting with her younger sister after realising how much pain they cause people. Forthose who dont know who they are, see the above picture, now Google them and join me, andthe rest of the sane thinking universe, in hating them with every ounce of energy possible.Megan Phelps-Roper was in charge of the social media arm of the movement so it seems almostfitting that it was a conversation with a Jewish man on Twitter that finally had her questioningthe morality of living by the God Hates Fags slogan. Enough has already been said about thesedetestable people so lets concentrate on the positive aspect of this (its pun time) revelation.

Its a victory for social media and that is a rare thing and also a Jesus style resurrection of irony.They put their most impressionable follower in charge of the one thing that had the power tochange her mind and when it did, like good Christians, they cast her out into the world ofsinners and tolerance. Again, hopefully for the last time before they fade into theologicalobscurity, Jesus kissed a bloke once.

So what to expect from the next week? The right-wing media will probably find a new enemy totake their indignations out on and the left-wing media will enjoy the ease at which they can

mock them for it. It really can be a playground game of tit for tat. The very real positive aspect isthat even if its an exercise in self-promotion and pandering to popular opinion the world hasbecome a slightly more tolerant place and an even bigger source of comedy.

Phil Watson

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