Tory MEP Claims homophobia is propaganda and does not exist

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Of course, David Cameron has told us all that the Tories are now a renewed party and that equality of opportunity is important in this agenda. He has yet to respond to the calls to discipline Roger Helmer. The writer, Tony Grew, puts it neatly when he says:
"Mr Helmer may think himself a liberal with a poorly-developed sense of "Gay-dar" and a nice turn of phrase, but his blindness to the most basic tenets of equality mark him out as the sort of Tory that Cameron should dump."

What on earth do people expect Cameron to do about Helmer? Beyond being a member of the party and being a Tory MEP he has other no official position within the party. So the only concrete act Cameron could take is to withdraw the European Parliamentary whip from him, first having left the European Peoples Party and formed a new grouping with various Eastern European parties the Tories need every vote they've got to exert any influence within the European Parliament, second that would leave Helmer to say whatever he liked with added publicity. The only other act for Cameron is to give Helmer a purely symbolic 'public dressing down' which would only give publicity from his comments and distract from Cameron's agenda of the Economy and the NHS.

I don't understand why everyone gets so worked up about obvious cranks saying such cranky things.