TheBlindJournalist: Gay Marriage

My blog is going to be about David Cameron's attempt to change the image of his party by extending the rights of those people who choose to be gay. However, Mr Cameron's attempts have failed which is shown by a YouGay poll. Over half of the conservative MP's voted against David Cameron's attempt to broaden the rights of homosexuals. The total number being 134 Tories voting against the Prime Minister. Even though the majority of his party voted against him Mr Cameron succeeded in making civil partnership marriages legal.

It is felt and thought that the only reason why Mr Cameron did this was to change and modernise the views that people have of the conservative party but the YouGay poll suggests that:

• Two thirds believe that the Conservatives are now a divided party
• Both supporters and opponents to the vote say the Conservative party is in a worse light than before the vote.

Many people have rightly said that the PM is redefining marriage. The commons vote was basically modernists versus traditionalists. Also a big question was why did the PM choose to bring up gay rights at this moment in time when they're are more important issues to deal with such as the economy.
Richard Hammond, Conservative MP said that "In 26 years as an MP, I never once got a letter calling for gay marriage"
Nonetheless this shouldn't be a problem for the Conservative party because there has been previous occasions where MP's have not backed the PM, an example of this is the EU referendom split in 2011 and nothing happened after that, the topic was forgotten so the likelihood is this split won't make a big difference or be a big issue for the Tories and the main question is that even if there was an issue who would replace Mr Cameron?

Simply, David Cameron's plan has come back to bite him on the ...