Thread: To Quote the council Rep "politically correct"
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Old 28-12-2009, 04:49   #44
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Re: To Quote the council Rep "politically correct"
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Originally Posted by punky View Post
Hmmm...but then:

This is anti-political correctness gone mad


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The locus classicus of the genre is the story that Birmingham City Council renamed Christmas "Winterval". There is a little bit of truth at the heart of it; the council did indeed run a promotional campaign called Winterval - for a couple of years in the late Nineties - which was designed to attract business to the city centre. But in all other respects civic Birmingham continued to celebrate Christmas in the usual way - with lights in the streets and trees in the squares. The Guardian ran a piece trying to debunk the myths about Christmas in our PC world in December 2006, and when the paper's reporter telephoned Birmingham Council he reported meeting "a silence that might seasonably be described as frosty". A weary council spokesman told him: "We get this every year... It just depends how many rogue journalists you get in any given year. We tell them it is b------s, but it doesn't seem to make any difference."
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