Lbour's bill made no mention of same sex marriage any more than it said you can no longer after this date refer to African children as piccaninies.

All political parties support equality other than rabid right wing fascists and dreamers. Any party with a chance of running the country has, every time, manifesto pledges to maintain and bolster equality. After all, we expect people to vote as equals, so if your vote counts, the effect of it does too.

It isn't any flagship policy. Equality was a flagship policy, and this does no more than clarify a point. The point of equality. We have been striving towards it since the post war government signed us up to human rights. Our only issue is how long it took to get there, and for that we should be collectively ashamed. Those who look down on other stakeholders in society should be shamed on that count too.

If you don't believe in equality, and you don't believe in the parliamentary process of refining existing primary legislation through secondary legislation, then I suggest you join a party that doesn't understand politics.

Oh. You appear to have already done so.