Alan Duncan

Alan Duncan, (born 31 March 1957) is a Conservative MP in the UK parliament, and government minister. Openly homosexual Duncan was given a knighthood by the Cameron government which was very eager to prove its enthusiasm for the LGBT agenda.

Duncan is Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in charge of a policy of forcing countries in the British Commonwealth to adopt pro-LGBT laws. The appointment and his extreme anti-Christian views have drawn criticism.

Career

Duncan's career started with a stint working for Marc Rich, the oil mogul who was indited on criminal charges by the US federal government for tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. He only escaped prison by going into exile from America. Mr Rich, was described in an obituary as an "infamous white-collar criminal."

Dubious Property Dealing

When he became an MP, on the second try, in 1992, by standing in a safe Tory seat, Duncan was quickly promoted to government office and as quickly demoted when it was revealed that had used irregular means to obtain discount purchase of a council house. He didn't live in one himself, but had found an elderly neighbor who did, and persuaded him to buy it, so that Duncan could re-purchase it soon afterwards, far below the market price. Duncan was made to resign as a minister, but not as an MP, and in the last two years of the John Major government, Duncan was again promoted to ministerial status.

During the Blair years, he was a Shadow minister on the opposition benches.

Failed Leadership Bid

In 2005 he made a bid for leadership of the Conservative party, and blamed his failure on the "Tory Taliban" implying that it was his homosexuality that was the problem. By comparing the entirely peaceful, non-violent and socially responsible pro-family lobby in the Conservative Party to the violent and murderous Taliban, he publicly insulted his own party. He showed no reasoning to justify applying the name "Tombstone" to the Conservative pro-family group "Cornerstone." He alluded to homosexuality as a private behavior that somehow had no impact on other people or society (sic) which certainly gives us a true measure of his level of intelligence.

Expenses Scandal

In 2009, when the Daily Telegraph started to expose MPs' expenses claims, Duncan was revealed as having claimed more than £5,000 to spend on gardening at his second home. He insisted he had done nothing wrong, and went on to boast noisily on TV about how he had personally profited from the system of free mortgage payments for a second home. He called it a "great system" and at first refused to pay any of the money back. David Cameron, embarrassed, ordered him to repay it, and to apologise for his effusions. The system itself has now been abolished.

This happened at the height of the banking crisis, which caused great financial insecurity and hardship for the public, those "low-achievers" as he called them. That did not deter Duncan from prolonged and public whinging. He complained that MPs with their £64,000 salary, subsidized restaurants and champagne bars, paid secretarial staff and generous expense allowances, were expected "to live on rations and are treated like sh-t," a term he used publicly. Somewhat belatedly, Cameron demoted Duncan from the Shadow Cabinet. Yet, when the Coalition got into power in 2010, Duncan was given a ministerial job.

Libya Policy

During the crisis in Libya in 2011 he advised the government to cut off oil supplies to the Gaddaffi government and divert fuel to the rebels, thus encouraging the rise of islamic fundamentalism. He sided with the people who murdered the American ambassador in Benghazi. Assuring everyone that he was an expert on the oil business, he warned in The Times that oil prices of $200 a barrel were "on the cards" if anyone is "reckless and foments unrest." By 2016, despite five years of unrest, oil prices were still $40 per barrel.

Duncan has made public attacks on Israel and his dark accusations about a "powerful financial lobby" controlling America were condemned as anti-Semitic by leading Jewish groups.

Death Threats Against Christians

Duncan assumes a smiling, sunny image in public in the best PR tradition but a different personality flashes out from time to time. In April 2009, when appearing on the TV comedy show "Have I Got News For You," he shocked the audience by saying that he would kill an American beauty queen Carrie Prejean who had, when asked to give her opinion on marriage, stated very civilly that she considered it was between a "man and a woman." Duncan's "joke" about murdering her even shocked other contestants on the show. Many viewers complained to the BBC, the broadcasting watchdog OfCom and even to the police. The incident was reported in the press. “Gay Tory Frontbencher Faces Police Probe after Miss Universe Death Threat Live on TV”. The Guardian, a socialist and strongly pro-LGBT newspaper, excused his behavior by insisting it was a joke. Yet under UK law a death threat against a homosexual person for any reason would be a criminal offence carrying a jail term. Duncan also demonstrated his skills in intellectual debate by calling Miss Prejean, a qualified teacher, a "silly bitch."

Views on Drugs

Duncan's book Saturn's Children advocated legalising all drugs.

Position on UK's membership of the EU

In March 2016 during the UK's EU Referendum campaign, Matthew Elliot one of the leaders of the Leave campaign, revealed that Duncan had come to him and offered to lend his personal lustre to their side but only on condition that he was given a star role.

Elliot reported this on Twitter

11:00 PM - 23 Mar 2016 Matthew Elliott ‎@matthew_elliott Surprised @AlanDuncanMP supports Remain. He came to the@vote_leave HQ the other week asking for a Board position!

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Leave declined and Duncan, who had previously for 20 years leaned to the Euro-sceptic side, went on to join the Remain campaign. He wrote in the Daily Telegraph ‘I am one of those who many expected in the referendum campaign to be a fervent advocate of leaving. Until recently I also expected it of myself – even going so far as to speak to the Leave organisers at their HQ.’

Views on Taxation

In 2016 Duncan reacted with anger and rudeness to the Panama Papers scandal, press exposure of tax-avoidance by the super-rich including the family of David Cameron. He snapped that the very idea of full disclosure of politicians' tax affairs would deter "high achievers" like himself from going into parliament and would fill the House of Commons with "low achievers." One commentator asked "How does inheriting a large sum of money make you a "high achiever?"

Policies in Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Under Duncan, in 2017, the UK FCO issued the Wilton Report urging the British government to use every method of coercion to impose the LGBT agenda on foreign countries contrary to the will of the people and their own parliamentary democracies. The report ignores the issue of the negative health outcomes of such policies, denounces Christian morality as "hateful," blames it for imposing "heteropatriarchy" (i.e. natural behavior) and calls for "direct action" to implement their agenda when changes of legislation are not forthcoming. This extremism, which is completely against all the traditional policies of the Conservative Party and the democratic principles of the Commonwealth, has met with strong protests and a petition was set up on the internet demanding that the government reject it.

Altruistic, Philanthropic or Publicly Beneficial Achievements

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See also Death Threats Against Christians