www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7rg7wjvgvo
I'm sure we are all aware now that Reform MP Sarah Pochlin, made the following remarks on that Talk TV phone in.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting, quite rightly, imo, has criticised Reform MP Sarah Pochin (Runcorn and Helsby) for what he called "racist" language:
after she complained about adverts being "full of black people, full of Asian people
She gave a mealy mouthed apology "my remarks were "phrased poorly"
but maintained that many adverts were "unrepresentative of British society".
Streeting said yesterday Pochin had only said sorry "because she's been caught and called out".
its one of those "I'm sorry if" apologies that mean nothing - she is racist at heart.
The adverts we see on TV are all so very different - they are targeted, for example on ITV 3 we get a series of almost complete white older people in baths with doors, sitting in idealised arm chairs, etc etc.
On programmes watched by whole groups of people the content reflects our society as a whole. which is multi cultural:
and has the benefit, I believe for young people particularly, who don.t live in multi-cultural areas like mine, of showing that people from varied backgrounds do ordinary things like insure cars or watch TV or mix across cultures with popcorn and a take out (just to give some typical examples)
One has to ask, why does she mind so much?
What she said isn't even that insidious or subtle racism or the kind of racism people carry but aren't necessarily aware of
(ie assumptions being made becuase you dont actually know people from different backgrounds)
it was full out in your face "us and THEM" revealing her and her Reform compatriots in all their prejudice and hatred.
She should be taken to task by Farage. Is she isnt, what does that say about him?
