What's wrong with calling a bigot a bigot?
Amid all the media frenzy of Gordon Brown's accidental audition for The Thick Of It, one aspect has been largely overlooked - the comments made by Gillian Duffy about eastern Europeans "flocking" into her community which led Brown to label her a bigot.
Writing in today's Guardian, Milena Popova, herself one of the flocking eastern Europeans scapegoated by Duffy, bravely describes how Duffy's comments affected her and rightly bemoans the lack of media voices criticising Duffy's ill-informed and, yes, bigoted views:
