Wow.
Ukip MEP Jane Collins on BBC Any Questions, this week, was without doubt a perfect microcosm of everything we know about Ukip. Denial of Expert Scientific Knowledge, Obfuscation, Irrelevant Facts, Diversion and Idiocy.
Yes, I know we *expect* it. I mean, Jane Collins was a nobody. Now, she's a nobody with a purple rosette getting paid quite a lot to do very little. But Jane, you excelled yourself. You reached depths of Climate Change Denial unheard of since Godfrey Bloom.
You can listen to the whole program via BBC iPlayer at this link - the Climate Change question starts at 36m, 22s.
Collins 'scientific credentials' are of course, that she was once a 'horse physiotherapist' - although there is no record of her actually having any qualifications in this line. We've searched, a lot, and can find nothing. So it appears that Jane Collins has absolutely no qualifications, achievements or credentials at all, in any field. In fact, up to the age of 33, she seems to have had no job or career that we can see.
Oh, we stand corrected. She has an 'A Level' in Art, and a whole year of non-appearances at the EU Parliament.
To be fair to Jane Collins she was out-gunned on the panel from the start - surrounded as she was by persons of actual intellect. The other panelists were :
Ukip MEP Jane Collins on BBC Any Questions, this week, was without doubt a perfect microcosm of everything we know about Ukip. Denial of Expert Scientific Knowledge, Obfuscation, Irrelevant Facts, Diversion and Idiocy.
Yes, I know we *expect* it. I mean, Jane Collins was a nobody. Now, she's a nobody with a purple rosette getting paid quite a lot to do very little. But Jane, you excelled yourself. You reached depths of Climate Change Denial unheard of since Godfrey Bloom.
You can listen to the whole program via BBC iPlayer at this link - the Climate Change question starts at 36m, 22s.
Collins 'scientific credentials' are of course, that she was once a 'horse physiotherapist' - although there is no record of her actually having any qualifications in this line. We've searched, a lot, and can find nothing. So it appears that Jane Collins has absolutely no qualifications, achievements or credentials at all, in any field. In fact, up to the age of 33, she seems to have had no job or career that we can see.
Oh, we stand corrected. She has an 'A Level' in Art, and a whole year of non-appearances at the EU Parliament.
To be fair to Jane Collins she was out-gunned on the panel from the start - surrounded as she was by persons of actual intellect. The other panelists were :
- Dame Margaret Beckett MP, 37 years in Parliament, longest serving female MP, alumni of University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
- George Monbiot, Writer, Environmental and Political Activist. MA in Zoology from Oxford. Recipient of the UN Global 500 Award for Outstanding Environmental Achievement. and
- Lord David Willetts, 1st at Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
