British Society

I sent this to Ofcom after watching Big Brother today for the first time:

Jade was heard to say “Shilpa fuckawala” and “Shilpa popadoom”. This is racist. I am asian, I don’t need the broadcaster to tell me what is racist or what is not. I had to endure this garbage in the 70s and 80s and I was broadcast myself reciting poems against racism back then. I struggled against racism so that my children would not have to listen to it on the TV like I did.

Now my children have to see the establishment wring its hands while it tries to decide whether it is offending a large portion of its populace?

I am dismayed that this country is still indulging in racism AND hypocrisy.

And to Channel 4:

I have just had the misfortune of watching Big Brother today after the
recent furore. This is the first time I have ever sat down to watch it.

Frankly, I am utterly disgusted at the racist bullying you are broadcasting under the pretence of entertainment. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

As for Jade, I hope her “career” of being vacuous, stupid and now, irredeemably racist hits the rails. Her despicable language “Shilpa popadoom, Shilpa fuckawala” should receive the stronest censure.

You have lots of Asian viewers, why have you not pulled this horrible, racist woman from the airwaves? Are you happy to promote racist drivel? I had to put up with this crap in the 70s. Now you want my children to suffer too? Shame on you!

I look forward to your response.

I don’t think Jade is an exception. There have always been people like Jade. There are far more of them than people otherwise think.

If anyone tries to say that this cunt is not a racist, they are racist themselves. As for the argument that she is not racist because she is mixed race, I’m sorry, but that’s a shit defence. And she looks white enough to me. She’s certainly dumb enough.

After being called into the diary room, she was confronted with her racist outburst. At first she feigned shock. Then she went into defensive overdrive. Utterly stupid. Utterly preposterous. And for people like this hideous, evil cunt, hundreds of thousands of Muslims have to die? So that this sick culture can thrive? This cancerous, rotten, backwards looking, celebrity/alcohol/sex-as-a-sport/drugs obsessed and hypocritical society can continue to pretend to be the last bastion of tolerance and fair-play? Fuck off! What does this country stand for now?

I’m the one asking people to get their feet off seats on buses. And I’m the paki!

I’m the one asking boys in a fast-food restaurant not to swear with ladies present. And I’m the paki!

I’m the one giving up my seat for people. And I’m the paki!

I’m the one helping ladies with prams up the stairs at tube stations. And I’m the paki!

When my friends and family are spat at and sworn at and driven at by black, but after 7/7 mostly white people, I forget that we’re supposed to be the last bastion of tolerance and I wonder why I bothered integrating so much, that it seems that it’s just this paki son of a paki immigrant holding up the last of the so-called-British values.

This country has gone to shit. And I am very close to leaving this crippled society. Amis? You stupid cunt who will never, ever be as good as your dad - you can keep your deceit and your shit and your rotten land.

Jam and Jerusalem? Shove it up your fucking arse!

I’m delighted that this bitch has been aired. Because she is the face of Britain. A lout. A loudmouth. Inward looking. Racist. Hypocitical. Stupid. Dumb. Alcoholic. Selfish. Self-important. Attention-seeking. Vainglorious. And utterly despicable.

The good people of this country are definitely in the minority. I would dearly love to see the minority reclaim it, but they’re intimidated. Why? Because they are decent people, and it’s very easy for decen people to be intimidated by scum, who sadly, occupy every strata of this country - from the bottom (Jade) to the very fucking top (Tony Blair).

It’s official. When only angry pakis like me believe in traditional British values, Britain is finished as a culture. The reason they can’t define Britain anymore, despite Brown’s weightiest exhortations, is because Britain is officially shit - and it’s very hard - very, very hard - to polish a turd.

I haven’t been witnessing the alleged racism and bullying on Big Brother recently. I don’t watch Big Brother. I despise the idea of it and I find the morning-after-discussion-culture nauseating.

If this country is about binge drinking, unchecked louts and Big Brother, then I despise this country. I don’t believe this country is about those things though. I do believe however, that the racism (and the transcripts can be recognised as racist by anyone who has been a victim and dismissed as bitchiness by perpetrators and apologists) exposes the dark and putrid, stinking, hypocritical underbelly of this nation.

Racists have taunted me ever since I can remember - “go back to your own country”. I can give them a couple of answers. The first would be “no - you fuck off. I earned this country, you’ve earned only derision”. The second would now be “I’m thinking about, I’m thinking about it”

Anyone who for a minute thinks that the racist attitudes portrayed by a bunch of venomous, racist, self-serving cunts on a soul-destroying, amoral precursor-show to get us used to the idea of cameras fitted by law in every bedroom are an exception, is living in a dream world. The reality is (funny word that) - that racism has always existed here, will always exist, and is the flip-side of failed post-colonialist adjustment.

If anyone for a moment thinks that Jade (Cunt) Goody’s mother can be absolved of racism because Shilpa is too difficult for her to pronounce, should ask the cunt that bore a cunt from her putrid, racist, cunty cunt, whether she has any diificulty saying “Indian” which has by the way, an additional syllable. Anyone who defends this as ignorance as opposed to racism should ask themselves if they’d be prepared to tolerate this behavior from someone who wasn’t prepared to make the effort to say “Leroy” and preferred instead to plump for the far easier to pronounce sobriquet “boy”.

The world sees Britain today for what it has shamefully become. A binge-drinking cess-pit of lout-puke, knife-crime, feet-on-seats, clogged roads, failed education (education, education), broken health service, obscene taxes, Martin (will never be as good as his dad) Amis and corrupt, depraved, craven, immoral and murderous leadership.

The truth always comes out - and the greatest irony is that Britain shows its face (let’s pray not it’s true face) on the most appalling “reality” television programme ever created.

Yesterday I started my first full week of recovery from my bilateral knee meniscus repair arhroscopy. That’s corrupted medigeekspeak for “my knees were busted, they knocked me out, stuck some instruments into my joints through a couple of small holes, cut some bits out and fixed it all up again”. I had time to sift through and review the half dozen or so letters sent by my GP. Every time a consultant wrote to her, it jogged her into writing to me. I thought GPs were beyond Pavlov, but what do I know?
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I spent the weekend hospitalised. Not fun at the best of times, but unfortunately, this isn’t exactly the best of times. Before you medivac, fearing a bout of introspective morbidity or existential angst, snap out of it! This post is about how fucking shit the NHS is becoming.

Look, I don’t understand the NHS, I don’t understand how the funding works, I don’t understand the government, the Trusts, the Foundations, the whatever-the-how-you-funds. All I understand is that more stuff has got worse over the years than better. Despite more money. Despite more nurses. Despite more doctors.
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If you don’t read Famous for 15 Megapixels and you live in Britain, your quality of life and understanding is not really where it could be.

My friend who is responsible for the inspired Minority Report alerted me to a video that Stef had posted about, which reminded me of my Oyster card(s).

I recall that I have two, both unregistered of course. Not that it really matters.

If you register your Oyster Card, the police can, without your knowledge, determine the extent of all your London Transport wanderings. (Am I the only one bemused and irritated about “London Transport” becoming “Transport for London”? Why add an extra word? Why change the word order? Was it to make it sound more cuddly? Did some agency get paid to come up with the new name? Was there a tender? Did someone get bribed? Why????)

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Dear Mr. Blair,

Please excuse the formality. My rage against your brazen lies and self-aggrandising, preening arrogance, your demonisation of Islam and your deference and obsequiousness towards your god, President Bush, has led me in the past to address you as “Bliar”, or more prosaically on occasion as “cunt”; so it might surprise you to find me addresing you more formally on this occasion. The situation demands it, even if my opinion of you is as low as it has ever been.

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