Gay marriage has 'caused floods' says Ukip councillor

[muriel_volestrangler]

showing once again that UKIP is Britain's Tea Party:

David Cameron is at fault for the hurricane-force winds and flooding that affected Britain over Christmas, a Ukip councillor for Henley-on-Thames has declared.

Mr Silvester argues that Cameron's support for the Marriage (Same Sex) Act, which passed into law in 2013, was an "act contrary to the Gospel" that has triggered the extreme weather and caused travel disruption, in a letter published in the Henley Standard. He further warns that "disease, pestilence and war" may "beset" Britain in the wake of the legislation.

"The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war."
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Mr Silvester continued: "He has arrogantly acted against the Gospel that once made Britain "great" and the lesson surely to be learned is that no man or men, however powerful, can mess with Almighty God with impunity and get away with it for everything a nation does is weighed on the scaled of divine approval or disapproval."

http://www.channel4.com/news/gay-marriage-in-britain-has-caused-floods-says-ukip

[JoePhilly]

1. See ... man can control the weather.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. The Buybull says what???

[LeftishBrit]

3. Until very recently this loonytunes was a Tory

http://henleyconservatives.co.uk/?p=119


Obviously fell out with the Tories for not being quite crazy enough for him!

P.S. what explains the 2007 floods then? We didn't have gay marriage yet at that time!

[non sociopath skin]

4. Ah, but we were thinking about it ...

... and the Big Man In The Sky KNEW!!!!!

The Skin

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. For 2007, all is revealed at the end of this sound clip

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/19/ukip-shipping-forecast-gay_n_4628625.html

[LeftishBrit]

5. More UKIP nuttery, this time from Scotland

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/ukip/article/3355/ukip-chair-claims-glasgow-council-for-gays-catholics-communists-in-online-rant

While some UKIPpers really are just anti-EU types or 'ordinary' right-wingers, I think it is attracting an increasing number of true nutcases: in particular, people who would be supporters of the BNP and/or EDL, except that they consider that those groups are for the Lower Classes, and they're snobbish as well as having their other prejudices!

[T_i_B]

6. I don't think it's quite like that

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There are indeed plenty of bigots who won't touch the BNP with a bargepole, but there are 2 reasosn for this which have to be considered ahead of snobbery.

The first the the whole Oswald Moseley / Hitler loving tendencies of the BNP, which puts off many such people. The idea of supporting a people who were cheering on the other side in World War II is very off putting to a lot of people.

The second is the tendency of many BNP supporters to act like thugs.

I would say that those are the biggest factors that make the BNP an automatic turn off for many right wing bigots.

I wuld also point out that in recent times, a lot of BNP members have jumped ship, not to UKIP but to the English Democrats (who did manage to get one of their candidates elected mayor of Doncaster not too long ago).

[LeftishBrit]

12. Fair enough...

Certainly the tendency of the BNP and EDL types to love a bit of aggro is seriously off-putting to those, who are law-abiding, even if a bit loony politically.

Also to clarify: I don't think that the majority of UKIP members and voters are extremists in the usual sense, or similar to the BNP (that was a reference to a small but nasty minority); I do think however that UKIP are attracting an increasing number of loons of many different sorts. In the early days of UKIP, I knew several quite reasonable people who voted for them simply and solely because they were against our being in the EU. I think that nowadays UKIP supporters have become a bit more bizarre on average.

Here is a local example (this individual was UKIP parliamentary candidate in Oxford East in 2010, and fortunately lost badly):

http://www.cherwell.org/news/oxford/2013/02/01/ukip-oxford-chair-steps-down

[dipsydoodle]

8. UKIP has a disproportionate number of nutjobs.

They are a waste of space.

[T_i_B]

9. Maybe they heard the Weather Girls song & got the wrong idea?

Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men!

[dipsydoodle]

10. LOL

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Someone got there first:

https://twitter.com/ukipweather

EXTREME WEATHER WARNING! Tonight for the first time, just about half past ten. For the first time in history it's gonna start rainin' men
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An area of blame will move in from the east before drifting away and settling over Brussels
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The sun makes a brief appearance after John Barrowman stubs his toe on the corner of a wardrobe
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High winds at a garden centre in Kent after 2 men were spotted heading towards the plants without stopping to look at the ride-on lawnmowers