Your precious country has about 50% black/asian/immigrants OK.They are welcome into England as far as im concerned
Me too, as I'm sure chrissie is also.
As far as I can see, nobody's complaining that there are people of different ethnic origins living here. The way I interpreted chrissie's comment about giving the country over to foreigners, was that ethnic minorities can often have MORE rights than others, which is wrong.
You also seem to have conveniently missed where she said "the sooner we revert back to old values and treat ALL people with respect the better". Notice there was no mention of colour, race, gender, or anything else here - simply 'all people'. It appears that you are perhaps putting your own slant on what's been written, rather than simply reading the words verbatim.
I know it's a contentious topic, but let's try not to introduce even more contentious secondary issues if we can help it.
The main issue as far as I can see is that Thatcher said what she did in private, and Jo Brand apparently found it offensive (oh the irony!!!!). Now why she, or whoever else that was listening, decided to take it upon themselves to report Carol Thatcher for saying this, I don't know. The only thing I can think is that somebody wanted to get her in trouble, and they have obviously succeeded in their goal.
My personal point of view is why does referring to someone as a 'golliwog' cause someone to lose their job, when if he had been skinny and she had referred to him as a 'beanstalk', I'm absolutely sure nothing at all would have been said (certainly we wouldn't know about it). It appears that she was not using the term in a derogatory manner. I would even go as far as to say that the original meaning of golliwog has been all but forgotten, except by those who like to pick up on anything that they could, in another context, make into a "racist comment".
I know that the term golliwog is considered offensive to black people because of the origins of the toy doll, but I expect there are plenty of other words in the english language that have very dubious origins, and are now considered socially acceptable, or at least certainly wouldn't cause you to lose your job if you said it to a couple of work colleagues.
I'm not saying it was smart or right to say what she did, just that we simply shouldn't have ever heard anything about it. It wasn't apparently said in a derogatory manner, it wasn't directed to his face, and it wasn't broadcast. Sole grounds for dismissal? Surely not.
People use descriptive terms to describe other people all the time, doesn't mean they're racist. I'm not racist, I treat everyone the same and judge on character, not appearance. I have friends who are white, black, asian, mixed-ethniticity, straight, gay etc. If I don't like somebody, it's because they have done or said something to offend me, and I think more people should be like that instead of trying to cause problems where there aren't any by acting under the guise of being dutybound to protect a certain group of people.
As for Clarkson on Gordon Brown... the guy happens to be Scottish. So whilst what he said was unprofessional and downright rude, given that he KNEW he was speaking in public, can you honestly tell me that the Scots never use the word "English" as a descriptive term when slagging somebody off who is English?