You Can't Say Anything These Days

We have all been aware, since at least the "nigger for a neighbour" election campaign of 1964 and the subsequent cleansing of the right-wing soul, that there are no racists in the Conservative Party but only fun-loving straight talkers who are martyred by being taken out of context. In the latest example, a video which the Home Office posted online featured a black blogger discussing the abuse he receives, including injunctions to "go home." This of course was the slogan of Tumbledown Tessie's very own Powellite Pantechnicon initiative, from her period as Secretary of State for Windrush-cleansing. No doubt the young man in the video was a loyal piccaninny with a watermelon smile, rather than the sort who nurses an ancestral hatred of the British Empire; but it says something about the environmental hostility after half a century of political correctness when the Ministry for Wog Control is forced to take itself out of context.