19/12/2019
Midlands Zone magazine, the popular gay and trans community magazine for the area that includes Birmingham has branded hapless former Member of Parliament Roger Godsiffe as a “big loser” after the deselected MP monumentally failed to win back the seat after siding with a group of homophobes that the police had testified had the potential to turn violent. Mr Godsiffe had been a member of Parliament for a central Birmingham constituency since 1992. However, he was booted out by the Labour Party after he intervened in a row over inclusive education. Even as the tide of public opinion began to turn against the largely (but not exclusively) Islamist activists who were picketing schools in central Birmingham and causing distress to children, Mr Godsiffe began issuing statements backing the protesters. The protestors, a court has since ruled, cannot continue to harass the students and teachers of schools which had pioneered education that included a few small references to LGBTQ households. The Police also told the court that they feared that the religious fundamentalist protestors, led by people who didn't even have children at the schools in question, had the potential to engender violence. Mr Godsiffe did not accept that he was in the wrong however, and stood as an anti-gay candidate against the newly selected Labour hopeful at last week's General Election. In the event, his vote crashed and he failed to take back the seat. He came in behind both the official Labour candidate and the Conservative Party. Writing at another gay news wire, Pink News, commentator 'Mr Pieman' remarked of Godsiffe “He would have been the proto-typical Vichy-style Nazi collaborator had we lost the Battle of Britain. He's a repulsive man”.
