It’s Election Time!

This is a long one, but don’t worry it’s funny.

Fraser got a leaflet through from the Scottish Christian Party the other day there. Over at This Place is Dead Ronnie has posted some highlights from their campaign. They include:

•...you have a chance to vote for a Christian political party that has an All-Christian candidate list…

•Tommy Sheridan … famously ripped up Brian Souter’s ‘Keep the Clause’ referendum ballot paper.

•Patrick Harvey the Green lead MSP … is Scotland’s leading promoter of young schoolchildren being taught about homosexuality.

Patrick Harvie did the NO2ID gig with us a few weeks back, so he can get Glue hauners anytime he wants. Never once during that night did he talk about finding schoolchildren to bum. Not once. Though I didn’t go out with him after the show.

The Scottish Christian Party are run by one Rev George Hargreaves, pictured right. When I had a look at some of their policies I noticed a little anomaly or two.

• Reinstate the death penalty for severe crimes

• Legislation to ban abortion

• Provision of Christian religious education should be mandatory

• promote biblical alternatives to the current criminal justice system

• That Mechanical Copyright Protection enjoyed by songwriters should be extended to featured recording artists and record producers

• That a minimum royalty percentage (the level of which should be decided through consultation with the music industry) should be paid to featured recording artists and producers on exactly the same basis as is currently paid to songwriters

Hang on, law and order, anti-abortion, forcing religion on people, recording artists and record producers should be getting more money?? Eh?

Only then did I discover that Rev Hargreaves, righteous man and hater of homosexuals, used to be a DJ. He was also a songwriter. Quite a successful songwriter as it turns out. In fact you’ve probably heard one of his songs. It was called ‘So Macho’. It was a big hit for Sinitta. Thanks mainly to its success in the gay clubs. He also wrote its double A-side ‘Cruising’.

Rev Hargreaves still sees royalty cheques rolling in to this day. In fact they enable him to trot out his hateful bile. Read more about it in The Times.

Patrick Harvie said in the Daily Telegraph, "I contemplated making So Macho my campaign theme tune. It would be very me. But I did not want to give Mr Hargreaves any more royalties."

Rev Hargreaves had his ‘spiritual awakening’ while living as a tax exile on the Isle of Man.

There’s an interesting article on him here. It points out that...

The party is also fighting in Wales. Their manifesto proposes lifting controls on over-fishing on the basis there is "a supernatural element in the restoration of fish to our seas."

Mr Hargreaves also says that the Welsh dragon on its national flag is a cause of sickness. He declared to the South Wales Evening Post back in March 2007: "Wales has been under demonic oppression and under many curses because of this unwise choice."

So, will you 'put your cross by the cross'?