EVERY Englishman, or woman for that matter, should be incensed this week at the way the European court in Luxembourg has interfered in our system of car insurance.

I had double checked it wasn’t April 1 when I heard on the wireless on Tuesday that Euro judges were ruling firms must not take gender into account when arranging insurance motoring cover.

The fact that young women statistically have far fewer accidents than young men should now be ignored because it apparently is discriminatory.

Well, I have never heard such utter bunkum in all my life.

I believe I am well qualified to speak on this because I have made a career out of taking the mickey out of women drivers. However, when you push all the jokes aside, it is plainly obvious that, as a generalisation, teenage females are far safer than males. Not all young blokes are boy racers, of course, but there are a lot of them around.

If I had a teenage son and daughter, I’d ask the girl to drive every time. I know she might take longer to get me to my destination but I’d probably survive by the end of it.

I will possibly be labelled sexist for saying all this. I’m not. It’s a simple fact that differences exist between the sexes, and I loathe this political correctness that serves no one but a few trendy visionaries. In fact, the rule change suits men and penalises women, and as a man I don’t think that’s fair.

Most of all, though, I loathe the fact that a court in Luxembourg can tell our companies in the UK to tear up simple logical rules. Since when did we lose our sovereignty over common-sense?