Free speech banned by Labour!

The Labour Party is becoming a party of pharisees and philistines in equal measure. It is an unholy alliance. I hope the shower come fourth or fifth in this election. A good humiliating result is needed.

Labour apparatchiks have rounded on their candidate, John Cowan, in South East Cambridgeshire because he has said "he would not want any children of his to marry a Muslim". Now I may not agree with him totally, Gordon Brown might get sniffy, but I think it is a legitimate sentiment. Mixed marriages on religious grounds can be quite hard going. A lot work out. A lot don't.

Caroline Flint got rid of her first Muslim husband by declaring him an illegal alien. What does Gordon Brown think of her behaviour and attitudes? Self-righteousness knows no boundaries in the modern Labour Party. They have infected political life by being anti-democratic and anti-free speech. Not only that, loads of them are anti-Catholic, anti-countryside, anti-nobility (inverted snobs, that is!) and anti-anything that they don't fancy on Mondays.

Come on, you hypocrites! How many Labour candidates other than John Cowan relish their sons and daughters marrying Muslims? I bet they won't be poking their heads over their parapets!

It isn't a case of saying such marriages are wrong. I know several successful ones. However, many are not. That is just a fact of life. Labour can be such a nauseating party. It was far better when it was real Labour. Now it's just a bad version of load of dodgy door-to-door salesmen.

If Labour lived in the real world they'd know that adherents of Islam have a very different approach to marriage. Someone I once knew, a good friend at the time, was very typical of a Muslim man married to an English woman. His family urged him to get her to change her name and to renounce most of her cultural past. In the end the strain broke up the marriage.

Mr. Cowan hasn't said anything that outrageous. He just expressed an opinion. But he has been made out to be the week's worst racist by a self-serving bunch of humbugs. What he's doing in such a party Heaven only knows. I think he should leave well alone and leave their prissy precocious politics behind.