Ok. To be Christian persecution it has to be available now on The BBC.

I know Keith is going to bristle at the insinuation here so let me make quite clear that I notice the UKIP are distancing themselves from one if their councillors.

A UKIP politician is persecuting gay people by saying the recent floods are because of the vote to accept gay marriage into law. He then seeks to persecute the vast majority of the country by saying it is a Christian country and we are wrong for turning our backs on God.

Luckily we can laugh at the preposterous fool but you know, there is a huge groundswell of stupidity agreeing with him and irresponsible lack of condemnation of such tosh by people paid to speak for religious cults.

How many steps between him and a theocracy? Which political systems feature gangs of ignorant animals roaming round with machetes to defend their flavour of delusion?

It isn't just the church roof fund and village fêtes you know....