{"id":35706,"date":"2025-09-10T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=35706"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:11:36","slug":"mp-sides-with-disgraced-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/mp-sides-with-disgraced-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did an MP side with disgraced ‘Surrey Pride’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A feminist campaigner has spoken out after being ejected from the recent \u2018Pride in Surrey\u2019 event.<\/p>\n

Jo Bartosh, a veteran journalist and long-time advocate for women\u2019s rights, said she was ordered to leave by four security guards after raising safeguarding concerns. Ms. Bartosh had been recording conversations for a podcast when security closed in and escorted her from the premises.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph has the story<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The Spiked Online journalist maintains she was calm and respectful, speaking with attendees and Z\u00f6e Franklin, Liberal Democrat MP for Guildford. It was shortly after her exchange with the MP that \u2018security staff\u2019 insisted she leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what \u2018no debate\u2019 looks like in practice,\u201d said Jo Bartosch. \u201cAsking polite questions about the safety of children should never be treated as a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Political intervention raises questions<\/h2>\n
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Z\u00f6e Franklin- Liberal Democrat MP for Guildford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So what was the role of MP Z\u00f6e Franklin in the expulsion of Jo Bartosch? The journalist alleges that her removal followed the intervention of Ms. Franklin, both present at and supportive of the event. A Liberal Democrat spokesman said: \u201cThis is entirely false \u2013 Z\u00f6e did not ask officials to remove anyone from the pride event.\u201d She may not have \u2018asked\u2019 but she appears to have reported her conversation to them. The Bible condemns those who side with the wicked:<\/p>\n

Psalm 71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
\nRom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, … have pleasure in them that do them.<\/b><\/p>\n

The MP insists she has no official ties to \u2018Pride in Surrey,\u2019 so her intervention is an even more worrying sign of politicians protecting the wicked from scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Ezek 11:2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:<\/b><\/p>\n

Why are our elected representatives more concerned with protecting the reputation of an event like \u2018Pride\u2019 where pederasty became embedded? The same attitude among our arrogant elite has also put multiculturalism ahead of protecting young girls in the Muslim grooming scandal. Has MP Z\u00f6e completely lost her moral compass in departing from the ways of the Lord? The Bible says:<\/p>\n

Isa 29:15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?<\/b><\/p>\n

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Disputed claims on safeguarding<\/h2>\n

The row has been fuelled further by conflicting statements about police oversight. ‘Pride’ organisers declared on their website: \u2018Surrey Police have made it explicitly clear that there are no concerns\u2019 about the organisation.<\/p>\n

Lisa Townsend, Surrey\u2019s Police and Crime Commissioner, swiftly corrected the record, stating that Surrey Police had never made such a declaration. That clarification is welcome, especially as the force previously welcomed \u2018Pride\u2019 predator Stephen Ireland into their operations and painted patrol cars in rainbow colours. The Lord Jesus said:<\/p>\n

Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.<\/b><\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Surrey Police are truly repentant, while \u2018Pride\u2019 event organisers are prepared to lie about safeguarding assurances and throw out anyone who dares them questions. Truth, transparency and accountability appear as vanishingly small among the LGBT network as those qualities are among today\u2019s elite in general:<\/p>\n

Isa 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.<\/b><\/p>\n

A legacy of scandal<\/h2>\n

The backdrop to this controversy cannot be ignored. \u2018Pride in Surrey\u2019 returned this year despite the jailing of its co-founder, Stephen Ireland<\/b><\/a>. He was convicted in March then sentenced in June 2025 to 24 years for buggering a 12-year-old boy he groomed on homosexual contact site Grindr. This predatory history should place safeguarding at the centre of discussion. That it is instead used to silence those who raise legitimate questions speaks volumes about the extent of the web of depravity in Surrey Pride.<\/p>\n

The predatory paedophile both ran Pride in Surrey and was its safeguarding officer before his conviction. Watch our video:<\/p>\n