Meanwhile, a stupid British person speaks

The terrible tragedy of the murder of Bristol resident Jo Yeates seems to be on the verge of being turned in to something far more chilling.

The Labour MP for Bristol East, Ms Kerry McCarthy, has voiced her support for the compulsory DNA testing of all men in the city of Bristol.

Fantastic.

Ms McCarthy – who is clearly deranged – has, according to the BBC News website, made the following utterances:

Ms McCarthy said she believed the majority of people would be sympathetic to requests for (the taken of compulsory) DNA samples.

She added: ‘But rather than taking DNA just from men in the Clifton area, where the population is somewhat transient, the operation should be widened to include the whole of the city.

‘Quite how the police would organise this I don’t know,’ she added.

Quite.

These seems like an opportune moment to remind everybody of a few pertinent details, which the mentally under-powered Kerry McCarthy seems to have forgotten:

1. there were absolutely no signs of a sexual attack on Jo Yeates’ body
2. women can and do kill people too
3. to condemn 50% of the population of Bristol as criminal suspects, and on the basis of no evidence at all, just because of their gender is sexist
4. our wonderful police have a long and successful track record of breaching the rights of the public by not destroying DNA evidence, even when so ordered
5. ps. what about people who live outside the city of Bristol, but who might visit it every day to work?
6. pps. or those who visit the city once a week
7. ppps. or those who visit the city once a fortnight (etc, ad nauseam)

There seems to be two things here.

On the one hand we have a politician who seems to be so desperate to get on to the voters’ radar, that she has become rentagob.

On the other hand we have a politician who has no knowledge of the DNA process, which extends to the areas of compiling data, recording data, analysing data, reporting on data and, needless to say, data retention and data destruction policies (and the execution thereof).

And, quite evidently, no knowledge of the Human Rights Act.

Well done Kerry McCarthy, as an example of the kind of person we should not be voting in to parliament, you excel.