Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

Dear readers,
You would have thought that with the country grinding to a halt under severe weather conditions, there might be more important things at stake than worrying about Doctor Who. Apparently I could not have been more wrong.  From the BBC website:
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Doctor Who, BBC One, comment about ginger hair, 1 January 2010Publication date: 6 January 2010
Complaint
We’ve [...]

“Thank you for your letter … regarding the Black Power List [and] the Miss Black Britain competition. Do I take it from your responses that if there was a Miss White Britain competition or a White Power List that you would not consider that to be racist either? Is there any difference legally or morally [...]

“The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works. But here we have Top Gear setting new records after six years using cheese and cheese. It [...]

“Berlin to Warsaw in one tank”
- slogan on a car advertisement featuring Jeremy Clarkson, which has led to complaints and an official investigation

Should this…

…really have led to this?…

The protestors are following the lead of Rev Al Sharpton (front centre with grey hair), a populist civil rights campaigner. The New York Post has apologised to those offended by an editorial cartoon that critics said was racist because it likened President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee. But in its public [...]

Dear Carol Thatcher,
I’m so sorry to read about what happened to you.  Losing your job is never fun at the best of times, but to lose your job on the BBC’s ‘The One Show’ because you made a totally harmless remark in a private conversation without any TV cameras around that wasn’t even remotely offensive.  [...]

“It is to have a go at political correctness”
- Conservative councillor David Taylor, explaining why he has a 2009 Sun Page 3 calendar on a wall at his authority’s HQ

“Common sense suggests that children learn by their mistakes and occasionally they need upsetting to teach them to pull their socks up. Self-esteem has to be built on genuine achievement, not mollycoddling, which only harms children in the long-run. Red ink is the quickest way for pupils to see where they are going wrong and [...]

“Jesus wasn’t hermaphrodite, neither was he a girl.”
- Steve Goddard, co-editor of the Christian website Ship of Fools, responding to a reader’s comment about the possibility of changing the well-known refrain of O Come All Ye Faithful – “O come let us adore Him” – to “O come in adoration” for fear that the original was [...]

“What is the world coming to when anyone seen with a camera is assumed to be doing things that they should not? This parental paranoia is getting completely out of hand. I was shocked”
- Gary Crutchley, of Walsall, who was stopped from taking photographs of his own children playing on a slide in a public [...]

WARNING: no-one is safe from the political correctness brigade - not even Santa Claus.