The sad thing is, we all know Harman, the equality minister, would never dare to even think of making jokes about female dogs. 'Scotland must keep its bitches in their place'.
Europe and the UK are overrun by black squirrels. These are non-native to the British ecosystem, an American import. They have made the red/ginger squirrel an endangered species. Of course, Harman would never ever joke about an African Secretary of Treasure: 'But there's one black rodent we never want to see in the Highlands of Scotland...'


It is the eternal problem of the PC / equality movement. These are emancipation movements, they view the world from the bottom up. Racism is what the man at the top does to the men below, sexism is what men do to women, Harriet Harman would die of indignation if somebody were to speak of Black politicians as 'undesirable black rodents'. She'd scream for his resignation and put his kids in re-education camp. Yet when she was preparing her text, not a single alarm went off in her head about the enormity of what she was about to say about a white man. It is not at all coincidental that it should be a former equality minister who should've made these comments.

The whole philosophy ought to die out. It belongs to the 1990s, two decades ago, back when every literary studies department had a 'Black Queen' at its head, preferably lesbian and resembling Whoopi Goldberg, because only black women were unsuspect.