Depressingly Unrealistic Party

I can’t say I was surprised to read here that a Democratic Unionist Party councillor was doing what they seem to do best – flapping his gob. Apparently I’m “abominable and filthy” and to blame for Hurricane Katrina and the spread of AIDs in Africa. Oh yes, so that’s what I do at weekends.

The Ballymena DUP Councillor presents a thought provoking argument. Hurricane Katrina was God reminding us that he doesn’t like homosexuals: “the media failed to report that the hurricane occurred just two days prior to the annual homosexual event called the Southern Decadence Festival, which the previous year had attracted an estimated 125,000 people.”

Well I suppose the media did have rather a lot on their plate to report that week – I guess they just missed that bit.

They also must have missed that the DUP election victory on May 5th 2005, which left them the fourth largest party in the House of Commons, increasing their mandate in both Westminster and local elections was followed 20 days later by an air disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 27 people were killed. This was obviously God saying something important to us.

I’m sure people of the same view as this public representative must dread the summer Pride season. What with so many gays on the streets, surely God must be about to start flicking whole continents of people to their death as vengeance. Funny – no one I know faced the wrath of God this summer, or last.

It really is positive to see our elected public representatives being stupid buffoons.

And they wonder why we abstain?