All of us remember, some of us never learn.

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, held on this day to remember the liberation of Aushwitz/Birkenau by the Red Army in 45, to learn from the horrors found therein and all subsequent vile acts perpetrated against individuals based on their ethnicity, culture, beliefs and sexuality, and to ensure that we don't repeat this persecution.      

I note that Adur's MP, Tim (The Lought) Loughton, has decided to support this true and just cause, Sadly he does this blindly just like all other causes he pretends to crusade for.

Here's what it claims on his lovely website:

Tim commented:
 “Holocaust Memorial Day is an important opportunity to remember the victims of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides. I encourage all constituents to mark the day and to join members of community in the fight against prejudice and intolerance.”
Karen Pollock MBE, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said:
“We are proud that Timis supporting Holocaust Memorial Day this year. It is vitally important that we both remember and learn from the appalling events of the Holocaust – as well as ensuring that we continue to challenge all forms of hatred and bigotry.”

Now, on the face of it, this may seem very noble of him. But If you remember that the Holocaust was not only about persecution of the Jews, but also Homosexuals, Gypsies, The Mentally ill, Disabled people and any other group not judged by morons to be "perfect" and "pure", then reading further into his website would lead you to question why he actually signed the book of commitment , when the content of his brain appears geared towards persecution of some of these groups himself.

He has made his thoughts on equal rights for same sex marriage clear in the press of late, claiming that he personally doesn't disagree but his god does, and that they apparently don't want to get married anyway, Well Timmy Boy, I don't want to get married either, but I could if I wanted, and even if only one gay couple want to get married then I will believe that they should also have that right and stand up againt bigots that claim that they shouldn't, whether they claim to be at odds with their god or not.

He claims that Marriage should be "A gift of God in creation, through which husband and wife may know the grace of God", Surely this definition would preclude marriage in any polytheistic religion as well, does he also believe that Hindu's should not be allowed to marry, and as Buddhism and Shinto technically have no defined "god" as such, he should also vote against their rights as well, there are plenty of other examples of why his statement is essentially rubbish available but there's a few of mine to be going on with.

The reason for his claims that nobody has written to him supporting same sex marriage I can only assume is his claim that he only accepts correspondence from his constituents, and will not reply to group emails. One should wonder though, that if he only deals with his own constituents why is he off on jollies around the country visiting youth groups and other projects and organisations that are no longer his responsibility because he was sacked from the post of Childrens Minister, one would wonder also who was paying for these jaunts, I do hope that the taxpayer isn't funding his trips around the country to whore himself to the press and play the poor minister who lost his job for reasons other than being "lazy, incompetent and narcissistic".

He also seems to have appointed himself as some kind of spokesman for mental illness, but has no time for anyone who he views to be even slightly rude. Now people with mental illness can not always present themselves as middle classed Tories, anyone who has dealt with any form of mental illness will tell you that. It's all about emotional control and respect, something that The Lought seems to be completely devoid of. If he doesn't like "mad people" then he shouldn't pretend to care, and I personally believe that his appointement to all of these bodies is purely to present an image rather than a real passion for the subject involved, back to the narcissism then.

Any resident of Adur will be aware of the same old nonsense about Gypsies and Travellers every summer. For someone who claims to have respect for the lessons learned from the Hollocaust Memorial Day and other such organisations, he certainly hides it well every summer when he claims that we are "overrun" and "invaded" by "a wave of anti-social travellers", and that we need to set up special Gypsy hotlines to notify him of "incursions" by the travelling community. His facade crumbles further when you see that he has written this :

    I have also made enquiries about the Republic of Ireland’s zero tolerance policy towards travellers despite being subject to EU Human Rights legislation. As soon as I receive it I will forward it to you.

So he clearly thinks that there should be exceptions to the HRA or at least a way of sidestepping them in order to persecute the travelling communities, he has made it clear on more than one occasion that he would rather do away with the HRA altogether, hardly supporting the whole idea of ensuring that persecution of individuals is prevented eh?

Another action that he appears to support heartily is :
"The Council has also taken the decision not to provide them with any facilities given the mess that was made at the Rotary Cricket Ground when the pavilion lavatories were made available."
So ensuring that they have no access to facilities is acceptable is it? Personally having visited public toilets in Adur (not regularly or in any capacity other than to have a wee I might add) I find it hard to understand how one would notice if they were made more unpleasant by the travellers, as they are pretty grim as they are.

He does agree that a dedicated site needs to be found, however the worrying part is that he claims that these sites needs to be "appropriate (though not lavish)" Which sadly brings us full circle to the Holocaust, obviously this is nowhere near the extremes experienced in the past and elsewhere in the world, where people are transported to camps whilst the bigots live in castles, but purposefully placing people in poor conditions and failure to give equal standing to all, in order to ensure their compliance to your wishes whilst you live in a very nice private road in Burgess Hill and insist that the "notorious Human Rights Act" needs to be removed, is the start of a slippery slope.


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