What is going off in this country

[anotheoldgit]

All this over-the-top attention paid to a bit of girlie cattiness that took place in a rather silly TV programme goes to highlight what is really going off in our country.

A few stupid words expressed by a member of our increasingly poorly educated classes. The offence apparently was that these words were aimed at a person who was of a different nationality, thus it becomes a Racist Remark.

These two words bring shock and horror down upon us, yes serious enough to cause that prominent MP Keith Vass (and we all know from what side he is batting), to bring the subject up on Prime Ministers questions no less. Not withstanding this, it also caused a diplomatic incident between the UK and the Indian Government. We also witnessed an unruly mob over in India, violently burning effigies of the makers of this programme.

A little over the top one may say and should have completely disappeared into insignificancy to an earlier programme on Channel 4 in which an undercover reporter infiltrated some Mosques where threats of killings, beatings, and religious intolerance where taking place. In this instance no arrests, no questions in the House, no headlines, not even a burning of an effigy outside those mosques. But in the true tolerant British fashion a complete sweeping under the carpet.


That is what is going off in this country, we have a Police Service who are too PC to act, Members of Parliament that are afraid to upset their ethnic minority voters, and a media news that would rather headline a few stupid remarks made in an equally stupid TV programme than headline the more serious news such as the deaths of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the build up of seriously sick religious fanatics who are constantly planning to do this country and it's inhabitants very serious harm.

[Backdrifter]

I don't think there's anything "going off in this country". The brouhaha is just symptomatic of a number of established things: some people's ignorance and inability to express themselves well; our obsession with "celebrities" and this programme in particular; a creeping nervousness about any suggestion of racism; and the media's tendency to wildly over-inflate things. That's all it is - those things mixing together. It feels like a major thing because there's so much coverage and discussion of it - including this and other AB threads. But it isn't.