UKIP leader records spoof weather forecast following ‘gay floods’ row Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, presented a spoof weather forecast on BBC One pointing out other political parties also have members with similarly unorthodox beliefs 26 January 2014 | By Tim Heap BBC UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage responded to the recent ‘gay floods’ controversy on BBC One’s Sunday Politics show this morning (Sunday 26 January) by presenting his own weather forecast. UKIP councilor David Silvester sparked the row last week when he claimed recent flooding in the UK was caused by the legalisation of gay marriage, quoting parts of the Bible. He was suspended shortly after he made the claim. Farage used his weather forecast slot on the BBC to draw attention to members of other political parties who have previously expressed outlandish beliefs. At the start of the forecast he refers to the flooding row as ‘a storm in a teacup’, having previously dismissed it as not being newsworthy. Farage said: ‘The old parties are seeking to cloud the big political issues of the day by focusing on the view of UKIP members like [Silvester], even though he’d said a deluge of similar things when he was a Tory councilor. How quickly some things change depending on which way the wind blows.’ Continuing, Farage said: ‘If you look around the UK, you’ll see there are outbreaks of sometimes barmy, occasionally extremist views, from people of all political persuasions.’ He pointed out the case of Labour councilor Simon Parkes from Whitby, who last summer claimed to have fathered a child called Zarka with an alien he refers to as the Cat Queen. Parkes also claims his ‘real mother’ is a nine foot green alien with eight fingers. Farage also referred to a Liberal Democrat councilor who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for setting off explosives in a North Wales town, and a Tory MP who organised a Nazi-themed stag party on a skiing trip. Before handing back the studio presenter, the UKIP leader finished saying ‘we hope there’ll be a sprinkling of real ale on lower-lying areas, outbreaks of common sense and absolutely no chance of cyclonic fruitcakes’. Farage has also come under fire this week for suggesting women with children are worth less to employers and for calling the ban on handguns ‘crackers’.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:14:51 +0000
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