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Disgust - The Reform party Racist Sarah Pochlin

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Wyllow3 Mon 27-Oct-25 08:53:08

Her ignorance is so obvious. she also said
"Pochin blamed the situation on the "woke liberati" in the "arty-farty world".
"It might be fine inside the M25, but it's definitely not representative of the rest of the country," she said."

here I am in a big northern multicultural city, and there are many of us, feeling fine about multi-cultural adverts.

On Saturday, I was at my gym and having a late afternoon brought from home snack in the then closed cafe. a few yards away from me were a group of 3 older men with accents that showed that clear Jamaican lilt playing dominoes together, they do it every Saturday. It was swimming lesson time. The parents - some Muslim, some white, some black British: some were watching the children and chatting to each other, there was a group of muslim mums having a good old natter together:

I had just had a talk about life, men, and racism with my friend B from Nigeria (born in the UK, parents surgeons) after a quick natter with S the cleaner from Eritrea who asked me to teach some yoga:

natters upstairs on the warm up mats and the weights room with so many different backgrounds and languages (its near the uni, its near a large Sundanese population, its near a large well established ex-Pakistani population and Chinese populaiton

its near Waitrose (for the well heeled members to nip to for their weekly shop after the gym).

what is wrong with people?

Enjoy, I do.

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Oreo Mon 27-Oct-25 08:50:05

She did use the wrong phraseology to my mind, but that doesn’t mean that either she or the caller-in to the radio show was wrong about the adverts now being proportionally skewed towards ethnic minorities.
Apparently about five years ago it was 37% and is now 51% which is definitely out of proportion to the white majority in Britain.

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Wyllow3 Mon 27-Oct-25 08:40:31

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7rg7wjvgvo

I'm sure we are all aware now that Reform MP Sarah Pochlin, made the following remarks on that Talk TV phone in.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting, quite rightly, imo, has criticised Reform MP Sarah Pochin (Runcorn and Helsby) for what he called "racist" language:

after she complained about adverts being "full of black people, full of Asian people

She gave a mealy mouthed apology "my remarks were "phrased poorly"
but maintained that many adverts were "unrepresentative of British society".

Streeting said yesterday Pochin had only said sorry "because she's been caught and called out".

its one of those "I'm sorry if" apologies that mean nothing - she is racist at heart.

The adverts we see on TV are all so very different - they are targeted, for example on ITV 3 we get a series of almost complete white older people in baths with doors, sitting in idealised arm chairs, etc etc.

On programmes watched by whole groups of people the content reflects our society as a whole. which is multi cultural:

and has the benefit, I believe for young people particularly, who don.t live in multi-cultural areas like mine, of showing that people from varied backgrounds do ordinary things like insure cars or watch TV or mix across cultures with popcorn and a take out (just to give some typical examples)

One has to ask, why does she mind so much?

What she said isn't even that insidious or subtle racism or the kind of racism people carry but aren't necessarily aware of

(ie assumptions being made becuase you dont actually know people from different backgrounds)

it was full out in your face "us and THEM" revealing her and her Reform compatriots in all their prejudice and hatred.

She should be taken to task by Farage. Is she isnt, what does that say about him?

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