Ukip councillor David Silvester said the legalisation of gay marriage is to blame for the bad weather (Picture: Henley Conservatives)

A UK Independence Party councillor has said the recent bad weather is the result of legalising same-sex marriage.

David Silvester, who defected from the Conservative party in protest of David Cameron’s stance on the issue, said the country had suffered storms and floods because the prime minister had acted ‘arrogantly against the Gospel’.

In a letter to the Henley Standard he wrote: ‘The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war.’



The Henley-on-Thames councillor said he had written to Mr Cameron in April 2012 to warn him about the ‘disasters’ that would come if he supported gay unions.


He added: ‘It is his (Mr Cameron) fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods.’

Ukip stressed the party did not share Mr Silvester’s views but defended his right to state them.

Henley’s Tory MP John Howell, said: ‘I thought Mr Silvester’s letter was not the sort of thing that he should have written in today’s age. He really needs to consider his position.’