We sit on the fence or merrily cause offence
CAN’T believe I’m talking about this again but I upset somebody on my talkRADIO show the other week.They think that every time I have a go at “woke” I’m slagging off the left-wingers. I’m not sure that’s true but anyway, as they say, if the cap fits, wear it.
The politically correct are now offended by the old TV show Porridge. They couldn’t become any more stupid. These woke gits are beginning to annoy me intensely.
Television today – apart from when I’m on, obviously – has become turgid and dull. A little light relief from the past to remind us perhaps how much we have improved surely must be a good thing, although that doesn’t apply to comedy.
We cannot pretend our past didn’t happen and maybe we can learn from it. Wait till Alf Garnett returns – which it surely won’t – it might actually show how we have improved our understanding of others.
But all this silly... I’m sorry, I’ve just used a very rude word.
A few weeks ago it was breastfeeding that was offending people, then it was gender, apparently we’ve all got to be gender neutral.
That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. It is an impossibility. Nature would be fuming, so can’t we have some kind of sensible retort to those people who think they’re winning this ridiculous battle?
We are not gender neutral. We can as human beings be very offensive, depending on our moods, and none of us feel we are equal. Admit it and then let’s move on. Let’s try not to upset too many people but upsetting people – friends, family, neighbours, sometimes someone you walk past in the street – is an inevitability that’s always going to be with us.
Let’s just try to control ourselves.
I’m trying to think of the most offensive TV programme that I used to love and I suppose it was ’Allo ’Allo! I’m surprised that and Dad’s Army, which some people might find offensive too, are still going strong.
Well done
Yvette. to them.
Let’s bring back
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SO WE’VE had the Budget. We do have to pay this money back at some point – to be fair probably our grandchildren will be doing so.
Saying that, we’ve just finished paying for the Second World War. Whatever will be will be.
I couldn’t do the job of Chancellor and, come to think of it, nor could the Shadow Chancellor. I heard her putting forth Labour’s views the other day: honestly, the Labour Party needs to find some inspiring leaders.
The ideas they suggested were, let’s say, not new. One of them is to protect the NHS. Who, as far as politics is concerned, is not going to protect the NHS? No political party is going to risk upsetting the NHS, which is a shame really because if you speak to doctors or nurses, or for that matter any clinicians who work in the health service, they will tell you the whole structure and management need to be reassessed. It needs to be brought into the 21st century.
I just hope one of the political parties will have the balls to do it because sadly they are all too frightened and the management of the NHS just blunders on.
This is in no way a criticism of the people who are trying to save my life and the lives of many others at the moment. They are absolutely amazing and working sometimes in very difficult circumstances.
Come on politicians: have the guts to help modernise the NHS and repair the bits that are broken. ■
I’M SURE most of you must have seen the appalling picture of the racehorse trainer sitting on his dead animal. I find horseracing, particularly over jumps, very offensive.
Also, I think it’s probably time now to ban all hunting, the so-called illegal type where animals unfortunately get killed and injured. We don’t do cock-fighting, dogfighting or bear-baiting any more so why do we abuse animals in other ways?
Time, I think, to stop – or am I being too woke? We’re not talking about offending one’s sensibilities. We’re talking about actually doing damage to a living thing.