The Nigel Evans case proves that juries are smarter than our liberal elite

You may remember this little gem of a story from a month or so back. Justifiably worried at the ramping up of rhetoric by western politicians over the crisis in Ukraine, Blackpool ‘beauty technician’ Gemma Worrall took to a social media site to ask the — presumably rhetorical — question: ‘Why is our President Barraco Barner getting involved with Russia, scary.’ Why indeed, Gemma? The scorn and hilarity was of course immediately forthcoming at this fantastic level of pig ignorance, and lots of people, including me, wrote spiteful things about Gemma’s IQ level.

Gemma was indignant at being publicly reviled as the most stupid woman who has ever walked the earth and revealed to sniggering reporters that, in fact, she possessed 17 GCSEs. This should tell you more about the intellectual rigour required these days to acquire a GCSE than it tells you about Gemma, I think. Having seen some of the stuff my oldest son has had to revise for his GCSEs, I suspect that a block of Cathedral City cheddar cheese could manage at least a C grade in one of the sciences.