David Cameron Makes Clear It’s More Important To Be Strong In Europe Than Fight Homophobia

The Conservative leader, David Cameron has, in an interview with gay magazine Attitude, defended the alliances that Conservatives in the European parliament have formed with the Polish Law and Justice Party.

Accused of being both homophobic and anti-semitistic, the Polish Law and Justice Party was founded in 2001 by twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Lech, who is now the president of Poland has acted in his time in power to ban gay pride march after gay pride march, whilst his brother has spoken out many about how he believes homosexuality would lead to the “downfall of civilisation”.

Despite this Cameron would not act to call the party homophobic but instead deflected the issue on the Liberal Democrats sating that they also had anti-gay supporters. Admitting that being connected with such parties could act to harm who would vote for the Conservatives, Cameron made it obvious that what was most important for him was that his party had a strong position in Europe, and not that of being rightly or wrongly seen to side with homophobic groups saying:

“There should be a centre-right group in Europe that wants [the European Union to be] an open, flexible, trading Europe, rather than the endless progress towards a more federalised Europe.”