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I understand what Stairs is saying though Salop; I too wouldn't class Mr Whelan as a 'racist' by this comment. I think Mr Whelan is in his late 70s and comes from a time where the sort of words he put together WEREN'T indicative of a racist or even a slightly racist viewpoint - it was (and still is with people of that age) just the way they sometimes think and then talk - in a way that is natural to them and their time. However this IS becoming more and more unacceptable - and maybe rightly so - but if there is no malice attached to it my view is similar to Stairs - that the PC Police are just dredging up trouble where there is none.