Yesterday Carole Thatcher, the daughter of the infamous Trendy Left’s favourite hate-figure Margaret Thatcher, yet again caused controversy by describing someone using a word many now find deeply offensive.
During an interview on The Andrew Marr show, she described fellow guest Neil Kinnock as ‘A Labour Party Member’. A member of the programme’s production staff later remarked, ‘as soon as she said it, there were audible gasps all around the studio. Andrew Marr had to be revived with smelling salts and Neil Kinnock was so embarrassed he went even redder than his hair used to be.’
Seeing the looks of shock and horror on the faces of those around her in the studio, Ms Thatcher said ‘Well, what’s wrong with saying that? He is a Labour party member, isn’t he?’
Once he got his breath back, Andrew Marr tried to explain. ‘It’s just that these days, what with all that has happened recently, people no longer think it is polite to point out that someone may be… well…. I can’t really explain without mentioning that awful world…. It is considered tactful, to - at least - avoid mentioning that someone may have anything to do with the… the… L….‘ He turned to face the camera. ‘I apologise to anyone of a sensitive disposition who may be watching - or indeed if anyone is actually watching this programme at all – but I’m going to have to say it. It is considered extremely bad taste these days to say that someone is a member of the L… La… Labour Party. There, I’ve said it, and I can only apologise again. Now, I’m going to have to end the programme here and go for a lie down in a darkened room. Thank you and good-bye.’
Neil Kinnock later said. ‘I may be a member of… of t… that party whose name we no longer mention in company. It may even be true that I was once its leader, but those were very, very different times indeed. Even then, though I did my damnedest to make sure that the party never won an election. I wouldn’t have wanted something like that on my conscience for the rest of my life.’
Thatcher’s original heinous offence caused numerous complaints when it caused many people’s Politicallycorrectomometers to shatter their dials through massive overloading.
As a spokesperson for White Middle-Class Guilt, the organisation which officially decides what words or phrases are or aren’t classed as racist explained: ‘Saying a black person may slightly resemble a golliwog is offensive in exactly the same way that saying a blonde white woman may look like a Barbie doll isn’t’
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