Tap water is changing people’s sexuality? That must be the most ridiculous statement that I have ever heard regarding both water and sexuality, but as the saying goes, they walk among us…

US Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Susan King, in response to a question about party leader Tim Farron’s past refusals to say whether or not gay sex is a sin, during a live webchat with the Shropshire Star. responded with:

“I do feel environmental influences are affecting reproduction. All the pollution is having an effect on our DNA and our population is changing and evolving.”

Mrs King added: “There are a lot of feminising hormones getting into the environment and that has to be taken into consideration. It’s affecting people’s sexuality basically. People are at liberty to interpret how they want to live themselves.”

“Everything that’s getting into the environment is disrupting the way industrialisation has changed our living conditions, residues of all sorts of feminising hormones in the water supply from pharmaceuticals, etc., which is affecting gender of fish stock, etc.”

Mrs King, a landscape specialist who used to work as a director of the National Pure Water Association and is now standing for the Telford seat, added, when asked if she believed the hormones were affecting people’s sexuality:

“I do! I’ve done a lot of research connected with water quality, and that is where I gained my political and media experience.”

Well, between Mrs King’s latest statements and Mr Farron’s bloopers such as his 2015 tweet : “They can be, most sexual disorientation is caused by chemical leaking … check out the fish and frogs” in response to whether he thought homosexuality is “curable” must surely be rather embarrassing for the party.

Idiocy aside, if you think that drinking the tap water in your area might possibly make you gay, maybe it is time to invest in a office ater cooler that can filter out all toxins, including any that may contain the “gay gene.”