Daily Mail On James McGrath

Why, oh, why etc:

"Isn’t it desperately sad - and dangerous for our democracy - that political correctness has reached such a pitch of hysteria that the Mayor of London feels obliged to dismiss a man whom he himself acknowledges to be passionately opposed to racism...One of the reasons Londoners elected the once-outspoken Mr Johnson (himself no stranger to racially insensitive remarks) was their hope that he would blow fresh air through the fug of political correctness that has stifled honest debate in Britain for decades."

And one of the reasons very few ethnic minority Londoners voted for Mr Johnson is that passionate opposition to racism has never appeared to be one of his characteristics. It is a failing that could still spell trouble for him in London and for Tories all over Britain. David Cameron understands this. The Mail, though, never will.

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[Chris]

This is the same [anti-semitic] Daily Mail (some say) about which Ken Livingstone said:

"for the Mail group the victims may change but the intolerance, hatred and fear pervade every issue of the papers"...

...and they're debating how sad it is that someone in a politically sensitive job in, arguably, the most diverse city in the world, should go after his potentially racist remarks?

Interesting.