No Ordinary Fool

First of all, it was Iris Robinson, a DUP MP, denouncing homosexuality as an “abomination”. Now we have DUP Assemblyman and chairman of the Assembly’s education committee, Mervyn Storey, demanding that creationism be taught in schools as an explanation of how the world has come into being. Ideally, for our boy wonder, evolutionary theory would not be taught to our children at all.

They just keep making parody harder, don’t they?

However, we shall persevere by asking what we can expect next from these great genii?

- Tax cuts for the rich to be paid for by a cut in benefits to the poor and needy?

- Restoration of the death penalty? Hang ‘em all, I say. Hang ‘em good and high!

- Compulsory military conscription? That’s unemployment taken care of.

- The publication of a list of suspected Communists in the Northern Irish administration? There has got to be a few lurking in Gerry Adam’s beard to begin with.

- The formation of the Northern Irish chapter of the Ku Klux Klan? And you thought that the Orange Order were a strange lot!

- Demands that the Giant’s Causeway be drilled for oil? That would get nicely under the skin of those godless liberals now, wouldn’t it?

- The revival of geocentrism? Well, old Merv does seem to spend a good deal of time in outer space, so he ought to know what’s what up there…

- The bestowment of the freedom of Belfast City on Pat Buchanan? The scary thing here is that these guys will read this and think what a good idea that would be.

Nevertheless, I am inclined to agree with them on one thing. They probably are not descended from an ape-like ancestor after all. Evolution would still seem to be working on that…