Common sense is out the window in bonkers Britain - our latest national disgrace proves it

YOU really could not make it up, could you?

Oh yes, you could in modern-day bonkers Britain, where all common sense seems to have disappeared out of the window.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right to brand it a "national disgrace" to ban Israeli fans attending an Aston Villa match.

Birmingham's Safety Advisory Group - the body responsible for issuing safety certificates for every match at Villa Park - informed Villa that no away fans will be permitted to attend next month's fixture in Birmingham through public safety fears.

Well, they are idiots, and they are shaming Britain.

Their decision - just days after some Israeli hostages left incarceration by Hamas in Gaza wearing the very Maccabi Tel Aviv shirts of the team whose supporters have now been banned from the game - is a ludicrous one.

Failing to guarantee Jewish fans access to any football stadium in the country sends, as Ms Badenoch says, "a horrendous and shameful message: there are parts of Britain where Jews simply cannot go".

Really, how have things come to this when are own officials do not have the gumption to do what is right in a free society and allow fans to travel to a football match to support there team?

In a way, these barmy bureaucrats are no better than the Hamas militants in putting restrictions on the rights of Jewish people.

Put your brains back in, members of Birmingham's Safety Advisory Group, and reverse your insane decision for the sake of sanity and this country's faltering reputation on the world stage.