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LIVE 24-SEVEN


DIGBY LORD JONES THE 2018 VICTOR MELDREW


“ I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!” AWARDS


A couple of years ago, Jane Savidge (who turned 70 this November) drove onto the forecourt of the Asda petrol station in High Wycombe.


“I pulled in behind a car that had finished pumping”, she says. “As the driver was in the car I had no idea of the sex, age, race or religion of the person. I filled my car and the car in front had still not moved. I eventually tooted my horn. There was no response so I tooted again.”


She continues: “A black woman leapt out of the car and raced aggressively towards me, shouting. I locked my doors in fright, but the woman proceeded to aggressively abuse me and swear at me.”


Up to this point, Dear Reader, you will be thinking many different thoughts, but I guess incredulity won’t be amongst them...until you hear what happened next.


Thames Valley Police were forced to investigate a lady whom the Thames Valley Police Commissioner, Anthony Stansfield, called “a Pillar of Society”, on suspicion of her having committed a hate crime! The police have insisted that the incident be recorded as a “racially aggravated public order offence”, even though police officers later met with the other woman who agreed that a crime had not occurred.


I am not making this up; indeed I am indebted to the Sunday Times for bringing this disgraceful situation to my notice. If incredulity is not yet mixing it up there in your emotions with a feeling of frustration bordering on anger, then the finale will qualify this incident to Gold Medal position in the Victor Meldrew “I cannot believe it” Stakes.


Thames Valley Police (no doubt short of coppers on the beat and facing an onslaught of drug-related offences, especially amongst the younger members of the community) have told 70-year-old Jane Savidge (having spent a shedload of its officers’ time and your and my money, on this whole saga) that (can you believe this?!) as long as she does not come to the attention of the police in the future it is most unlikely that any reference would be made to this record. Oh really!!


But the Snowflake Generation are doing their best to beat the goings-on in High Wycombe to First Place in the Awards. Brought up with an Internet-fuelled sense of entitlement and a heightened and developed social-media-attuned inclination to take offence at ...whatever ...er...anything, God knows what the little darlings will do when they go out into the big, bad world and find that taking offence doesn’t just give you a bundle of rights!


I offer, Your Honour, as Evidence-in-Chief on this occasion, the case of Jenni Murray of Women’s Hour v Oxford University. Evidently Ms Murray (who is to hate speech and malevolence what Diane Abbott is to mathematics) has previously said that there IS a difference between a woman who was born female and a woman who has self-defined as such, having been brought up in childhood as a male. For this heinous hate-filled crime she has been “no-platformed” at Oxford…yes, banned from speaking at an event because transgender people will feel threatened and offended by ...er....Jenni Murray! Ah, diddums. Surely part of being a student is to have a damn good, peaceful argument with people with whom you disagree. If all you do is glorify in the luxury of banning people who offend you then when you get “out there” into that offensive, disagreeable place called “humanity” you are in for one helluva shock. What will you be banning next? Hot chocolate? Cuddly puppies? Vera Lynn?


Mind you, the world the Strawberries (they bruise easily) will inherit is doing a pretty good job of winning the Victor Meldrew “I don’t believe it” Championships all on its own...


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