Kissing Cousins?

If you ever wondered just how degenerate and unBritish the political caste are becoming, allow me to offer you up MP Iqbal Mohamed who has today argued AGAINST a ban on cousins inbreeding claiming it would be “ineffective” and said these issues would be better addressed through education programmes to raise awareness of the risks.

This follows proposals put forward by a Conservative former minister who has called for first-cousin marriage to be banned in the UK.

Introducing the proposals in Parliament, Richard Holden said the children of first cousins were at greater risk of birth defects and the practice should be prohibited to protect public health.

I agree with him - on this one the science really is settled.

Consanguinity is the fancy name given to this practise which is a deeply rooted social trend among one-fifth of the world population mostly residing in the Middle East, West Asia and North Africa, as well as among emigrants from these communities now residing in North America, Europe and Australia. Or, in short, Muslims.

Well, perhaps that is not historically fair!

First cousin marriages were once far more common and include some famous historical figures.

The father-of-evolution Charles Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood, and the famous physicist Albert Einstein married his first cousin Elsa Lowenthal.

Authors Edgar Allan Poe and H.G. Wells were also known to have married their cousins.

The British Royal family have also, like many among the European nobility, engaged in consanguineous unions.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were first cousins, sharing a set of grandparents.

In more modern times, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's first wife was his cousin Sajida Talfah.

Musician Jerry Lee Lewis, of 'Great Balls of Fire' fame controversially married his cousin Myra Gale Lewis Williams when she was just 13, he was 22 at the time.

So, it happens, but it is dangerous, and this is why…