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		<title>Another racist gaffe by Diane Abbott</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2012/01/06/another-racist-gaffe-by-diane-abbott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diane Abbott MP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know whether to despise Diane Abbott just that little bit more or whether to pity her for her evident stupidity. Not content with insulting one fifth of the world&#8217;s population, she&#8217;s also said that taxi drivers are racist! A spokesman for the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, Steve McNamara, said: We find it amazing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 190px"><img class=" " title="Diane Abbott" src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/51/59CFE1B9B976791D90C622D339F661.jpg" alt="Diane Abbott" width="180" height="180" /><p class="wp-caption-text">We must cleanse the streets of the racialist taxi drivers!</p></div>
<p>I don&#8217;t know whether to despise Diane Abbott just that little bit more or whether to pity her for her evident stupidity.</p>
<p>Not content with insulting one fifth of the world&#8217;s population, she&#8217;s also said that <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8997510/Diane-Abbott-taxi-drivers-refuse-to-pick-up-black-passengers.html" target="_blank">taxi drivers are racist</a>!</p>
<p>A spokesman for the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, Steve McNamara, said:</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>We find it amazing that in this day and age someone in Diane Abbott’s position can try to resurrect the stereotypes from the 1960s. At worst she is racist and at best she is stupid in making comments like that. Either way, she should go.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">[...]</p>
<p>She might have trouble getting a cab in the future and it won’t be because she’s black, it will be because she is stupid. I certainly won’t be stopping for her.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>You can always rely on a cabbie to tell it how it is and I would <em>so</em> love to see her flag down a black cab and be told to get stuffed!</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the bungling idiot <s>Ed</s> <em><s>Dave</s></em> Ed &#8230; whichever one it is &#8230; Milliband had an <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083175/Bob-Holness-dies-Ed-Miliband-BLACKBUSTERS-Twitter-gaffe.html" target="_blank">unfortunate Freudian slip</a> on Twitter earlier:</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>Sad to hear that Bob Holness has died. A generation will remember him fondly from <strong>Black</strong>busters</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Who you gonna call? Blackbusters!" src="http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/393241_144496515664176_100003114840107_192270_514795378_n.jpg" alt="Who you gonna call? Blackbusters!" width="700" height="700" /></p>
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		<title>Diane Abbott MP broadcasts casual racism on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2012/01/05/diane-abbott-mp-broadcasts-casual-racism-on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Abbott MP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diane Abbott MP, well known for her snide racist remarks, has finally stepped over the line saying that &#8220;white people love playing divide and rule&#8221;. Abbott has tried backtracking after being outed as a racist, saying the comments were taken out of context but if you read the exchange of tweets that the comment is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diane Abbott MP, well known for her snide racist remarks, has finally <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16423278" target="_blank">stepped over the line</a> saying that &#8220;white people love playing divide and rule&#8221;.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Diane Abbott racist tweet" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57715000/jpg/_57715869_abbott464.jpg" alt="" width="464" height="79" /></p>
<p>Abbott has tried backtracking after being outed as a racist, saying the comments were taken out of context but if you read the exchange of tweets that the comment is part of, she clearly believes it&#8217;s &#8220;us and them&#8221; and that black people should close ranks.</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p><strong>Bim </strong><strong>A</strong><strong>dewunmi: </strong>I do wish everyone would stop saying &#8216;the black community&#8217; though. WHICH ONE?</p>
<p><strong>Bim Adewunmi</strong><strong>: </strong>Clarifying my &#8216;black community&#8217; tweet: I hate the generally lazy thinking behind the use of the term. Same for &#8216;black community leaders&#8217;.</p>
<p><strong>Diane Abbott: </strong>I understand the cultural point you are making. But you are playing into a &#8220;divide and rule&#8221; agenda.</p>
<p><strong>Bim Adewunmi</strong><strong>: </strong>Maybe. I find it frustrating that half the time, these leaders are out of touch with black people they purport to represent.</p>
<p><strong>Diane Abbott</strong><strong>: </strong>White people love playing &#8220;divide &amp; rule&#8221; We should not play their game #tacticasoldascolonialism</p>
<p><strong>Bim Adewunmi</strong><strong>: </strong>I don&#8217;t advocate &#8216;divide and rule&#8217;. But I wish we could deal more effectively with issues without resorting to monolithic view.</p>
<p><strong>Diane Abbott</strong><strong>: </strong>Ethnic communities that show more public solidarity &amp; unity than black people do much better #dontwashdirtylineninpublic</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Taken <em>in</em> context, the comment is even worse.  The Labour Party is institutionally racist, I have said this before.  They are prejudiced against the English and now one of their MPs has openly made racist remarks about white people on Twitter.  Perhaps we need an inquiry into the institutional racism in the Labour Party?</p>
<p>Bim Adewunmi actually makes a bloody good point which will sadly be lost in the furore over Abbott&#8217;s racism which is a shame.  I find it extremely irritating when the media, politicians and police talk about &#8220;the black community&#8221; and &#8220;black community leaders&#8221;.  Have you ever heard the term &#8220;the white community&#8221; or &#8220;white community leaders&#8221;?</p>
<p>Abbott is a racist, I hope she gets hung out to dry and deselected.  We have enough problems with racism in this country already without racist politicians making it worse.</p>
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		<title>Did the Stephen Lawrence do more harm than good?</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2012/01/04/did-the-stephen-lawrence-do-more-harm-than-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Correctness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Stephen Lawrence case has finished and his murderers are going to be sentenced shortly.  Great, let&#8217;s get this over and done with and get it out of the news. It is because of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry that an accusation of racism when committing a crime automatically makes that crime worse than if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The latest Stephen Lawrence case has finished and his murderers are going to be sentenced shortly.  Great, let&#8217;s get this over and done with and get it out of the news.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 187px"><img class=" " title="National Black Police Association" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kX6A-aonjTg/TqgWheb5CnI/AAAAAAAANx8/iuk3Z5zoQ3w/s1600/national+black+police+association.jpg" alt="National Black Police Association" width="177" height="177" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Still no National White Police Association?</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is because of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry that an accusation of racism when committing a crime automatically makes that crime worse than if it was committed against a white person.  It is because of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry that the police have to consult &#8220;the community&#8221; if they want to do anything that specifically targets members of an ethnic minority &#8211; even if that something is a terrorist raid.  It is because of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry that black police officers have special status and are fast-tracked for promotions to fill diversity quotas.  It is because of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry that police are criticised for stop and search statistics that show them disproportionately targeting black people despite said statistics proving that black people commit a disproportionate number of crimes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The two people who murdered Stephen Lawrence were wrong and committed the ultimate crime but why is there this fixation on it being racially motivated?  So what if they killed him because he was black?  If they&#8217;d killed him because he was short or because he had brown eyes then it would have just been a &#8220;normal&#8221; murder, their prejudice against short people or people with brown eyes wouldn&#8217;t have even been mentioned or if it was mentioned it would probably only be to prove that they were mentally ill.  Murder is murder, it is the worst crime you can commit and it doesn&#8217;t matter whether your motivation is the victim&#8217;s colour, religion, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality or any other prejudice &#8211; it&#8217;s just murder.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve no doubt that racism existed in the police before the Stephen Lawrence inquiry and I have no doubt that it will continue to exist long after I&#8217;ve shuffled off the mortal coil.  The Stephen Lawrence inquiry undoubtedly did some good in tackling it but it&#8217;s done a lot of harm as well.  It&#8217;s put ethnic minorities on a pedestal where the law is concerned and the police spend an inordinate amount of time pandering to over-sensitive &#8220;community leaders&#8221;.  The special treatment ethnic minorities get at the hands of the police does nothing to promote community cohesion, it just causes more racial tension.</p>
<p>The pair got minimum sentences of 15 years, 2 months and 14 years, 3 months.  The judge sentencing them said that he was handing down long sentences because it was a racist crime despite the fact that they were supposed to be sentenced as if they were teenagers (which they were when the murder was committed) and under the guidelines in place at the time which didn&#8217;t impose extra punishments for racially-motivated crimes.</p>
<p>Thirteen years ago, before the Stephen Lawrence inquiry published its findings, everyone was equal before the law regardless of their race, colour or ethnicity.  This is no longer the case and that isn&#8217;t a positive thing.  If a crime is committed against me then it&#8217;s not right that the same crime committed against someone else with different colour skin to me is automatically considered worse and the perpetrator more severely punished if they did it because of the colour of that person&#8217;s skin.</p>
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		<title>BNP Butler joins BNP Barnbrook in the English Democrats</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2011/11/28/bnp-butler-joins-bnp-barnbrook-in-the-english-democrats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eddy Butler, the former National Front, former BNP, former Freedom Party, former BNP a couple more times, former BNP national elections co-ordinator, has joined the English Democrats. The announcement, which was the EDP&#8217;s worst kept secret since his mate Richard Barnbrook joined in January, will be a bitter blow to the handful of party activists that haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright" style="margin: 10px;" title="English Democrats: Bringing English nationalism into disrepute" src="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/edpdisrepute.png" alt="" width="138" height="137" />Eddy Butler, the former National Front, former BNP, former Freedom Party, former BNP a couple more times, former BNP national elections co-ordinator, has joined the English Democrats.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The announcement, which was the EDP&#8217;s worst kept secret <a href="http://bloggers4ukip.blogspot.com/2011/01/bnp-barnbrook-joins-english-democrats.html" target="_blank">since his mate Richard Barnbrook joined</a> in January, will be a bitter blow to the handful of party activists that haven&#8217;t yet joined UKIP who had hoped to stop the BNP takeover of the party.</p>
<p>UKIP recently announced a revised devolution policy that would see the creation of a federal UK with devolved parliaments for all four home nations.  The final touches are being put to the full devolution policy paper before it goes to the membership for ratification.  UKIP is the only non-racist, mainstream democratic party advocating the creation of a federal UK with equality for all four home nations.</p>
<p>English Democrats: not left, not right, just racist.</p>
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		<title>Racist fees result in fewer Scottish university applications from England</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2011/07/11/racist-fees-result-in-fewer-scottish-university-applications-from-england/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SCOTTISH universities have received 5,000 fewer applications from students south of the Border wanting to take their degrees in Scotland amid claims that the recession and uncertainty over fees are causing undergraduates to stay closer to home.&#160; That&#8217;s the Scotsman&#8217;s theory on why Scottish universities are seeing a drop in the number of English students [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>SCOTTISH universities have received 5,000 fewer applications from students south of the Border wanting to take their degrees in Scotland amid claims that the recession and uncertainty over fees are causing undergraduates to stay closer to home.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>That&#8217;s <a href="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/news/Applications-slump-at-Scots-universities.6798908.jp" target="_blank">the Scotsman&#8217;s theory</a> on why Scottish universities are seeing a drop in the number of English students looking to study in Scottish universities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright" style="margin: 10px;" title="Nationality Lottery" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y2tNRaA7Lu4/Sbq-Fbqf0PI/AAAAAAAAADQ/_jbMsATCSxs/s400/lottery.png" alt="Nationality Lottery" width="159" height="159" />It&#8217;s not the recession or uncertainty over fees that&#8217;s the problem, it&#8217;s the racial discrimination and high costs.  I appreciate that this will come as a shock to a lot of Scots and the BBC but English people haven&#8217;t been going to Scottish universities because they&#8217;re better, they&#8217;ve been going because the degrees are easier (4 years instead of 3) and because they&#8217;re cheaper.  Or they have been until the Scottish government decided to introduce racial discrimination into the Scottish education system by charging English students up to £9,000 per year for a degree in Scotland while every other &#8220;EU citizen&#8221; gets free university education largely thanks to EU laws.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you have the choice of paying £9,000 a year for 3 years for a degree in England (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3432767.stm" target="_blank">thanks to tuition fees imposed on England by MPs elected in Scotland</a>) or £9,000 a year for 4 years for the same degree with an extra year of expenses <em>and</em> you have to live in a hostile country where half the population hates you because of where you were born, which would you choose?</p>
<p>With a bit of luck Scottish universities will start running out of money soon now they&#8217;ve bitten the hand that feeds them because according to the Scottish Education Secretary an influx of Scottish students studying in English universities would bankrupt the country as the Scottish government pays the tuition fees of Scots in English universities as well.</p>
<p>Good luck to the <a href="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/topupfeesandstudentfinance/Students-say-fees-a-breach.6795072.jp" target="_blank">English students challenging this racial discrimination</a> in the courts.</p>
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		<title>Fuck you Ian Paisley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian Paisley, the MP for North Antrim in Northern Ireland, has warned the British Conservatives not to give in to English demands for equality which he says would create a Parliament &#8220;of little Englanders&#8221;. I appeal to my Conservative friends&#8230;they should recognise they should not play party politics with constitution of this nation. We will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ian Paisley, the MP for North Antrim in Northern Ireland, <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/11/20110211/tpl-paisley-warns-againt-parliament-of-l-0a1c1a1_1.html" target="_blank">has warned</a> the British Conservatives not to give in to <a href="http://www.thecep.org.uk" target="_blank">English demands for equality</a> which he says would create a Parliament &#8220;of little Englanders&#8221;.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 168px"><img title="Ian Paisley - wanker" src="http://www.dup.org.uk/Members/MemberImages/IanPaisley,Jnr.jpg" alt="Ian Paisley - wanker" width="158" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Wanker</p></div>
<p>I appeal to my Conservative friends&#8230;they should recognise they should not play party politics with constitution of this nation.</p>
<p>We will have a House of little Englanders.</p>
<p>That does not serve this nation.</p>
<p>You have a responsibility to lead the people of England into believing passionately in the union as I do.</p>
<p>You only do that by not encouraging this view that we need another Parliament for the English only.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I have one thing to say to Ian Paisley: fuck you.  I&#8217;d rather be a little Englander that a racist, bigoted, hypocritical big Britisher.</p>
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		<title>CEP: &#8220;There&#8217;s cruelty in Englishness&#8221; says Scottish BBC presenter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Marr, the Scottish presenter of the imaginatively titled Andrew Marr Show, used his BBC1 show today to racially abuse the English. Whilst interviewing the actor, Mark Rylance, about his new lefty liberal hand wringing play about Englishness, Marr interrupted to say &#8220;There&#8217;s cruelty in the play but there&#8217;s cruelty in Englishness too&#8221;. The following [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1221" style="margin: 10px;" title="Andrew Marr - Racist" src="http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/AndrewMarrRacist.png" alt="&quot;There's cruelty in Englishness&quot; - Andrew Marr, Racist" width="200" height="250" />Andrew Marr, the Scottish presenter of the imaginatively titled <em>Andrew Marr Show</em>, used his BBC1 show today to racially abuse the English.</p>
<p>Whilst interviewing the actor, Mark Rylance, about his new lefty liberal hand wringing play about Englishness, Marr interrupted to say &#8220;There&#8217;s cruelty in the play but there&#8217;s cruelty in Englishness too&#8221;.</p>
<p>The following a transcript of the relevant part of the interview:</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p><strong>Rylance:</strong> I think it&#8217;s about the question of what is indigenous Englishness. I think it&#8217;s clearer to look at the Welsh and the Irish and the Scottish and grasp &#8230; maybe you can&#8217;t put words to it but there&#8217;s certain kind of things that are very much part of their nation&#8217;s character and it&#8217;s harder perhaps because of our imperial past and the nature of the history of England to be pleased or proud about being English.  We used to have at the Globe a lot of difficulty trying to celebrate Shakespeare&#8217;s birthday and St Georges Day without the National Front coming in you know?</p>
<p><strong>Marr:</strong> Yeah</p>
<p><strong>Rylance:</strong> And I remember Ken Livingstone and I think still Boris is trying to figure out how &#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Marr:</strong> How you celebrate because part of this is very sort of dark and dysfunctional too isn&#8217;t it?  And I mean just thinking about that ghastly story from Doncaster this week, I mean there is a certain amount of wildness and madness and cruelty.  There&#8217;s cruelty in the play but <span style="color: #ff0000;">there&#8217;s cruelty in Englishness too</span>.  It&#8217;s not just an easy thing to celebrate.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Can you imagine the outcry if a BBC presenter had said there&#8217;s cruelty in Scottishness or Polishness or Chineseness?</p>
<p>Why on earth should we allow ourselves to be racially abused by a second-rate Scottish TV presenter for the British Broadcasting Corporation?  Well I for one won&#8217;t be &#8211; the following complaint has been made to the BBC regarding Andrew Marr&#8217;s racism and demanding a public apology.</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>On today&#8217;s Andrew Marr Show, Andrew Marr (a Scot) racially abused the English with the following comment:</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s cruelty in the play but there&#8217;s cruelty in Englishness too.  It&#8217;s not just an easy thing to celebrate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Had any other nationality been described as cruel there would have been an instant apology on-air yet because it is the English he has made a racist comment about, no apology was made.</p>
<p>I demand an unreserved apology on-air from Andrew Marr on next week&#8217;s show for his racial slur.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The programme can be watched again on the BBC iPlayer <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qcks0/The_Andrew_Marr_Show_24_01_2010/" target="_blank">here</a>.  Fast forward to about 24 minutes.</p>
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