Not too many people are politically correct in Morley and I certainly don’t classify myself as one of them. Indeed I wrote to the press lambasting our MP’s “Morley Together” as a piece of opportunist, manipulative, partisan, politically correct kak. (Although not quite in those words, of course).

He might even name a Locomotive after you.

My experience of Canada was from more than twenty years ago. It was certainly cosmopolitan in the small hick town I was staying in (Belleville, Ontario) as there were people from many cultures there, but nothing about racial incedents in the local press. I never detected any obvious hostility between cultural groups in the circles I moved in. I spent some time with an Irish Chap I knew from galway who had just emigrated there and through his circle of friends I did notice some friction in the later stages within the Irish Quinte Association, but this was what you might call Irish Nationalism. Their meeting hall had been an orange hall before they took on the lease! Needless to say they had expunged all of the tangerine and it was all painted emerald green.

What gtoe

Let’s all take a vow to be charming old folk whom young folk do want to visit and spend time with. I’d better get started on it right away as time is short.

By the way, some of my relatives in Australia make remarks like this which make me cringe. The old uncle must go down well in Canada where we are much more likely to think it than to ever say it. We are a multicultural nation, don’t you know, veddy politically correct.

Age is no excuse for bigotry.

My Gran’s 86. And she’d never do it.

At one point, he was telling some story of why black men have white soles & palms. (He has worked in Africa & seems to regard himself as the great white Bwana, despite having been a bit of a waster most of his life). I found myself biting my lip, wanting to tell him to shut the fuck up and get out of the house. It turns out that my Mum did that a couple of times during my childhood…

I wouldn’t want to endanger David’s inheritance though. (Basically a train set, something he has no interest whatsoever in getting, especially when it is 3000 miles away and doesn’t involve computer games).