Fellow Travellers

The Labour Party's long and difficult journey back to moderate and sensible levels of racism has suffered a bit of a hiccup, thanks to a shadow minister's inadequate command of the British language. The party spokesbeing for women, wogs and tokenism posted pictures on social media of herself distributing campaign leaflets which pledged to follow the Government's agenda of "dealing with Traveller incursions." She has since issued the usual apology for hurt feelings, along with the echt-Johnsonian excuse that she was unaware of the "problematic definition" of the word incursions. It remains as yet unclear what innocent construction she and the perpetrators of the offending material might have put upon the word: "job-stealing benefit fraud," perhaps, or "drug-dealing parasitism," or maybe just plain old "dirty thieving tendencies," in accordance with the legitimate and understandable concerns of hard-working patriotic families.