"Bergerac was not only more multiculturally challenged than Midsomer, it was also politically incorrect in that he went around in an ostentatious petrol guzzling mid 40s sports car"

Hasbeen,

How could you? The engine was a mere 1,776cc in capacity and when I drove one I regularly got around 30mpg to 35mpg depending on wether I was being lead footed or not. Mine had been fitted in 1950 with a Riley gearbox and overrive. The standard models were not thirsty however.

Is Mise, how on earth did you manage to be always going down hill. That's the only way that Ferguson tractor engine could have managed over 30 MPG. Even in my Morgan it could never get that high, & the Morgan was only 14 hundredweight.

They weren't successful, & Triumph quickly replaced them with the TR2/3/3A range.

They were pretty lousy cars, really, & I have always desperately wanted one. I make do with 3 later TRs.

It gets worse. You might not be aware that the European Union has rules
about discriminating against indigenous people.
It was recently ruled that the people of England are the aborigines of
England and that ITV could be presecuted for discrimination.

Imagine the rumpus if we forced aborigines to include white people in
a film they were making on aborigine life.

Sad, isn't it Bazz.

>>It was recently ruled that the people of England are the aborigines of England and that ITV could be presecuted for discrimination.<<

All that wasted time and money on making petty, stupid rules that bear absolutely no relation to real life whatsoever.

The article mentioned in the OP is horrifying in parts, and reassuring in others.

The horrifying:

"A study in 2006 found the programme to be "strikingly unpopular" with viewers from ethnic minorities."

So effing what?

There are many programmes on television that are "strikingly unpopular" with me. I do the sensible thing, and turn them off. I don't call for their producers to be suspended from their duties - much as I think it would be a far too lenient a punishment, for example, for inflicting Eddie McGuire on us, yet again.

Suspended by the toenails from the West Gate Bridge would be far more appropriate, but that's for another time.

There is still hope, though.

Ash Atalla (Egyptian, in a wheelchair) stated: "We have to be careful about seeking out something that offends us and then complaining."

With luck, we'll soon be seeing the tide turn against gratuitous claims of "I'm offended", coupled with unbridled political correctness - which latter is fast becoming a parody of itself.