It's easy to feel smug and read the myriad magazine articles that come out showing amazing claims by wannabe US politicians or surveys that would indicate low IQ and gullibility of those who vote them in, but we are not exactly free of them ourselves this side of the pond.

We have a political party with no manifesto, no views on anything other than stopping immigration and lifting smoking restrictions and they got a huge vote in local and Euro elections. We even have a supporter of theirs on Mudcat.

We have far right fascist thugs who go around saying you are not equal to them if you have a different skin colour, different sexual orientation or even merely being a woman. We have religious groups that subject children to genital mutilation....



Oh, and we have my mate. He is more in keeping with the thread. He reckons the moon landings didn't happen, that David Ikce may have a point regarding the royal family being extra terrestrial lizards, and don't forget that our resident young earth creationist pete has benefited from a UK education.