Iris Update

[hellison]

Which amounts to... very little. No mention of it at all on any of the news bulletains I watched last night, nor have most of the papers/new websites picked up on it.
There's a very brief spot on the bbc which basically amounts to -
Iris - I never said that!
Hansard - Um, you so did. We recorded it. look, right Here! (about 2/3rds of the way down).
Where she randomly brings up homosexuality in a debate about how to deal with convicted sex offenders and in the next sentance trawls in the Soham killings and Victoria Climbe who, if I recall, was tortured for weeks and eventually murdered by hetrosexual relatives claiming to be Christians.

According to the Tele, which seems to be the only place its been picked up (apart from the Stephen Nolan show, but we Won't Go There) complaints have been sent in to parliament and the assembly here but, they can do Fuck All -

"A Westminster watchdog last night said that a number of complaints have been made about DUP MP Iris Robinson following her controversial comments on homosexuality, but admitted that no action can be taken.
The Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, the body that monitors MPs’ code of conduct, said that despite the complaints about the Strangford MP nothing can be done as “the commissioner’s remit does not cover an MP’s views or opinions”.
The same exemption extends to Stormont "

Which doesn't leave too many options open to get anything actually done. I'm not how much good writing to her would achieve (possibly none) and I'm pretty sure writing to her party wouldn't make a blind bit of difference either.

Bah.

Comments

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Well the party does (try to) position itself as for Equality and Opportunity For All (here). At least until Iris opens her windtrap. Writing might not do much, but it probably wouldn't hurt.

Writing to her, on the other hand, may get you mailshotted by shrinks for being a sympathiser of Those People. Although I'd be interested to see how she responds to 'let (s)he who is without sin cast the first stone'. Possibly with photos of her in a nice polycotton jumper.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

My own MP is, sadly, one of her lot and I think I *might* have more chance of a response if I write directly to him, as my MP and ask what the official views are etc, rather than just write to the party. From various comments i've seen elsewhere, people who've tried that simply got no response.