Barf

"Labour & Co-op Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton & Devonport, Shadow Environment Secretary and a big fan of cake."

Looks like father and son.

I looked up Pollard’s age. He’s 40. That’s not as big a gap as I initially thought. I wonder how old the boyfriend is?

Why ew?

Who’s the top?

On the bf's FB page it says he's married to a woman named Erica Cheng.

Is that a housing projects behind these queens?

OP is out of his mind. Boyfriend is very cute. But the age difference has to be close to 20 years.

r4 see r2

Leave'em alone who cares?

His partner is 37.

Wow Luke is a year younger than me. I'd have thought he was at least 50 based off of that photo.

Is he really, r37?

*R11

He’s Military Police?

Boyfriend looks part Asian.

The boyfriend graduated from dance college in 2014 so he’s be around 28? He’s got Hong Kong and UK flag emojis on his Instagram. Earliest photo of them together is 2017.

To be fair I looked college age until I was 30. When I was 26 I dated a 38 year old and some assumed we were 20 years apart in age.

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[quote]Wow Luke is a year younger than me. I'd have thought he was at least 50 based off of that photo.

Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

Who's your barf friend?

You expect gay VIPs to date guys their own age?!

Who are the out gay MPs?

Openly gay MPs listed here.

I wonder how long has this rich, middle-aged man and the (presumably) poorer, younger boyfriend have been together.

Wow, the UK has quite a bit more out politicians than the US

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There is nothing 'ew' about them at all! you queens are vicious. I more think his views on gender and sexuality are greater causes for disdain. From his website:

Pronouns: Luke’s pronouns are He/Him All-male panels: Luke does not sit on all-male panels and will withdraw from panels if all the speakers on a panel identify as male. Thank you for your understanding.

R28, it sounds like your views are more worthy of disdain. Shouldn't you be posting at parler?

"Why ew?"

Because Datalounge is full of self-loathing closeted gay men living with their mothers.

r29 Bugger off, you knock-off Judith butler. Queer theory (and gender bullshit) is actively homophobic. If you think thats 'right wing' then that says more about your inability to grasp a concept.

R31, bugger off you Lindsey Graham wannabe. If you think standing up for women and not hating trans people harms gays then you are obviously a fucking moron. Trans people and feminists didn't support things like a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, your fellow conservatives did. Pollard is doing way more for gay people than you ever have.

They're cute. Good for them. My great love was 22 years older and I fucking adored him. Great life together.

OK and then he died

R11 Wait, the MP is 40 and the bf is 37? Only a 3 year difference....

The bf isn't 37

r32 omg you are actually a retard. Im neither American or British, you dumb fuck, and so I dont care about your silly left/right bullshit. I think standing up for women and gay people IS the right thing, thats why I find queer and gender theory so backwards and utterly homophobic! For instance thinking a female can be a homosexual man (like most ftms claim to be) is not only flat-earthism level delusion, its so offensive to actual gay men. How you can claim that, its just so absurd. Why do most trans people claim to be gay? Huh? Are you really that so invested in removing the biological realities to females and homosexuals in their ability to name, and protect their status? Oh wait, checking your posts when blocking you shows that yes, you do in fact believe this. You are a sad troll, having to imagine me some old ass American nazi in order to validate your own world view of the types of people in your mind who can ONLY be anti queer theory.

There is no need to state your 'pronouns', its just hallow performative claptrap. Refusing to be on a panel if there are no women as a matter of principle is similarly stupid. It is one thing to advocate for it, but to make it a policy to simply disengage from something because of the sex of the attendees is dumb. Also, im sure there are times when only women or only men, either should be on a panel, or that it happens that they are the best suited for the event and they all happen to have the same sex.

Other than that, I agree he probably has done more for gay people than me, he seems like he wants to affect change. Good on him, I applaud him for that, but that doesn't mean I agree with all of his views or philosophical positions. And anyone who buys into queer theory is suspect to me, and is in danger of propagating a deeply anti gay and anti women world view. I will never no apologise for calling it out, either. In you, or a public figure like this MP.

They look ridiculous. He makes him look much older. Not younger.

R36, you call other people dumb but you can't think of a better insult than "retard" - so funny. You insist that you aren't conservative and yet the people passing anti-trans laws are....GASP!....conservative. The same conservatives who voted for things like a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage are the ones who hate trans people. Keep insisting you aren't a conservative - BUT YA ARE, Blanche!!!

20 years younger than him! Disgusting.

Jeez, what a bunch of jealous bitches. The guy's 40 and his boyfriend/partner is 28. Oooooh, a 12-year difference.

So much jealousy in show business.

r38 You do know, small brained child, that you can be against anti-trans legislation AND be against current trans activism, right? They arent mutually exclusive. For instance, I fully support trans people using the toilet of their preferred sex. Well, I would if they weren't calling for self ID, thus removing the safe guards that medical 'gate-keeping' of transition has built in the past. There are many other examples of legislation that I am happy with in regards to helping trans people navigate the world. They dont include erasing the rights of women, or gay people though which is what you call for.

Also you also know that Stonewall was originally against gay marriage in the UK, right? As is was seen as too 'heteronormative' for the woke queers there. Like holy fuck you are so dumb.

Keep trying love, but im not a 'conservative'. Also get a better pop culture reference, you old fuck.

He looks maybe 47-48 or so, but so what. They look HAPPY and that's what matters.

That's also what makes so many here so bitchy.

R41, maybe think of some better insults than "retard" you low IQ reactionary fuck. Stonewall UK isn't against gay marriage but your fellow knuckle-draggers sure are

Supporting trans people isn't erasing women, it's the opposite. That's why conservatives like yourself who complain about feminism are also anti-trans. People who hate feminism are the most likely to object to trans people

r43 Learn to read, RETARD. Stonewall WAS against gay marriage. They then got an almighty backlash from the gays and so changed their position. Supporting transwoman is, or isnt, (depending on what the 'support' or legislation is) erasing women.

"That's why conservatives like yourself who complain about feminism" I have no desire to argue with someone so stupid that they think I am complaining about feminism........You are so wrong I am actually embarrassed for you.

Its so FASCINATING to watch you build this 'character' of me in your head. You need me to be some 'knuckle dragging', Jordan Peterson worshiping, 4chan shut-in Neo nazi. Nah bro, I just have a brain.

R44, since you have reactionary views and use "retard" as an insult I think my portrait of you is quite accurate. You are dumb, mean, and intolerant. If you have a brain, why do you share the same views as Marjorie Taylor Greene? Liberals are smarter than you. Even slugs are smarter than you. For a guy who thinks he's so smart, you say so many stupid things. No offense, but you come across as someone who dropped out of school at age 13. Try not to brag about your supposed intelligence if you can't back it up.

Oh dear. Some Dataloungers are incapable of debate without abuse.

His boyfriend looks like he spends all evening photographing documents and transmitting them to his handler in Beijing. 😂🇨🇳

r45 Ok, last response. Because as I said, you really are stupid. I had to google Majorie (as I said, im not an American, and so care little about your dumb politics). How are my views similar? I doubt her cirque of gender ideology is through a feminist lens, or as a result of her being a homosexual like myself. I have also stated that (with conditions, conditions that worked for decades as well) I belie in trans people using the spaces like toilets that make sense for them. A quick skim of Majorie's stated positions would make it seem like we arent at all similar in our views.......but you probably know that. What is so 'reactionary' about my views? Im sorry that I believe in homosexuality, nor genderism. I have never claimed to be some genius, rather just that I have a functioning brain, and so can see through the hyperbole and emotional gaslighting that people like you employ to disguise the paper thin arguments you make. There is no such thing as a lesbian trapped inside the body of a natal male. NO SUCH THING.

You have misrepresented what I have said in several of your posts, and created an illusion of what you think I am. I also think most people reading this exchange can see that you are the one who hasn't actually been able 'back it up', but rather you have just shrieked and called me a meanie and a conservative. Done responding

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^ The kind of person who calls others "retards"

Oh noes! I said the word r*tard. That means all my points are invalid, and I have been exposed as the right wing fundamentalist Christian that I am! Fuck!

R48 is so smart that he can't spell "I'm"

I thought the UK was in lockdown. What are these two love birds doing galivanting out and about?

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R51, you can't accuse me of "shrieking" and "name-calling" when that's exactly what you're doing. You're just as dumb and mean as ol' Marge.

[quote] And why would Beijing give a shit about some backbencher Labour MP?

R54 You need to know that China has tentacles and spies everywhere!

The recently-deposed head of UK Labour proclaimed recently that communist china has the best system to beat poverty.

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R47 Well, at least he's getting some...

He's really the Mongolian candidate.

there's an 11 to 12 year age difference between them.

that's like nothing.

what's that old expression? Divide the age of the older person in half and add seven? that's 20 plus 7 = 27; and Sydney is 28+

People are just jealous.

Honest to God...what's wrong with people.

Cute ❤ but whats with the eyebrows

Yes, people are jealous of a half-Asian grifter named Sydney 😒

[quote] [R56] Because they do? Even the most anti-China of "China experts" can't say much about their accomplishment in poverty alleviation. Telling a proven fact about China doesn't make one a Chinese asset. Yes, even a positive one.

I’m as anti China as they come and I agree that their genocidal actions is having a massive impact on poverty. If you forcibly imprison a large minority group as slaves, sterilise them and force them to work for no pay making products for the west then China can use that money to feet the ethnic groups it isn’t trying to end. Plus the people who work as the concentration camp guards earn a living too.

R63 You are also a moron if you believe all the nonsense about genocide and concentration camps.

{quote] [R63] You are also a moron if you believe all the nonsense about genocide and concentration camps.

Fuck off Nazi

As for Luke Pollard's stance on trans rights, he's clearly a TERF. He supports single sex protections and retaining those protections even if someone has changed legal status. Unlike many in Labour, he thinks serial rapists who start putting on lipstick should be kept in men's prisons.

[quote]“Everyone should have the right to live with respect and dignity in an equal and inclusive society. Trans people across the country and in Plymouth face daily discrimination and it is vital that steps are taken to provide the equality, services and support people need. Even though the Government has dropped plans for reform of the GRA, I am pleased that Labour is committed to the rights of trans people and remains committed to updating the Gender Recognition Act to introduce self-declaration for trans people.

[quote][bold]Labour supports upholding the Equality Act and is committed to retaining the single sex exemptions which may apply whether or not someone has a Gender Recognition Certificate where single-sex spaces are “a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”.[/bold] Labour has a proud of our history of advancing LGBT+ rights. It was a Labour government that abolished the Conservatives’ hateful Section 28 and created civil partnerships, and Labour votes in Parliament were crucial for winning marriage equality.”

[quote]Honest to God...what's wrong with people.

[quote]People are just jealous.

This. Evident happiness will always be ripped to shreds, now more than ever. Curtain-twitching purse-lipped loners love nothing better than a chance for more hate mail.