Ukip councillor blames flooding on same-sex marriage

A UK Independence Party councillor has blamed the recent storms and floods on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage.

David Silvester, who defected from the Tories in protest at David Cameron's support for same-sex unions, claimed he had warned the Prime Minister that the legislation would result in "disasters".

The Henley-on-Thames councillor said that the country had been "beset by storms" since the passage of the new law on gay marriage because Mr Cameron had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel".

He wrote in a letter to the Henley Standard will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war."