Elton offers it up John Howard

John Howard, the dismal Prime Minister of Australia, attempted to get involved with British politics during the last election when his hapless fixer Lynton Crosby was dropped in to run the Tory Party campaign. (How did that work out, we wonder?)

Now, we've sent Howard a gift. Elton John has got involved in Australian politics:

The musician, on an Australian tour, was asked if he had a message for Howard, whose government overruled a local law allowing gay unions in June.

"Up yours!" replied the outspoken star, who "married" his partner David Furnish in a civil ceremony last year.

Howard has insisted that there was nothing homophobic in his government's striking down of the Australian Capital's Territory allowing gay marriage:

"It is not a question of discriminating against them," he said.

"It is a question of preserving as an institution in our society marriage as having a special character.

"If you look at the legislation, what it effectively says, a civil union is not a marriage, but it will be treated for all purposes as being equivalent to a marriage," he added.

When someone tries to tell us they're not homophobic, but calls gay people "them", we always find it difficult to take them at their word.

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