Unqualified advice

John Selwyn Gummer

John Selwyn Gummer. Here he is:

Here he is feeding his daughter a burger to put everyone's mind at rest about the mad cow disease scare:

It didn't work.

He advises the government on environmental stuff. He has a degree in history. Which, in understanding the science of the environment, is in the chocolate fireguard usefulness zone. His advice, predictably, is that fracking is a great idea, because lots of his friends stand to profit from it. Perhaps this time he'll lower a granddaughter down a drill-hole with explosives strapped to her, to show us all just how safe it is.

He was John Selwyn Gummer, then became just John Gummer and now he's Lord Deben. He can't even make his mind up about what his name is.

He says that climate change campaigners have extremist views close to Trotskyism. Does that sound like one extremist accusing others of extremism? Should he be rebranded once again as Lord Black of Pot 'n' Kettle?

The gay marriage laws have brought the floods

It must be extreme nutter Monday.

This is David Silvester:

He's a UKIP councillor. Henley-on-Thames. He's UKIP because he defected to them after election as a tory. So he and his views were endorsed by the tories. He believes the recent floods are a direct result of passing the laws introducing gay marriage.

He has some sort of fire and brimstone religious belief, and claims to have warned that there would be repercussions should the bill be passed. Where do belief issues become mental health issues? Surely he's crossed the line into the land of the padded cell and straightjacket? Who on earth voted for him? Is Henley-on-Thames some sort of hotbed of Old Testament values? Is there a Nutters Estate, with Brimstone Broadway, Sodom Street, 10 Commandments Close, and the Red Sea Pedestrian Walkway? Do lightning bolts rain down upon the good folk of Henley-on-Thames the minute they consider straying from the straight and narrow?

Considering UKIP claim to have had a clear out of the “extremist, nasty and barmy”, you have to wonder what those on the 'no longer required' pile must've been like.