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[ramAnag]

One point about her claim about disproportionate representation of minorities on TV. She is bang on.

Reform with just 5 MPs are an excellent example of minorities being disproportionately represented on TV

It’s funny the things people of a certain persuasion - Ms. Pochin and Co. spring to mind - get hung up about. Yet they seem reluctant to look at the other side of the ‘quota’ coin.
Some of my favourite things are, in no particular order, attending live sport, live theatre, live music events, walking in rural Derbyshire and country pubs.
Next time any of us are at Pride Park I suggest you have a look around at the crowd. Think I’d guarantee it’ll be around 90% white. The same was true at the Test Match I went to at Old Trafford last August and I imagine the international rugby match crowd I’ll be part of at Everton next Saturday will be much the same.
A couple of weeks ago I attended Nottingham Playhouse and, apart from a smattering of Asian pupils from Oakham public school, the audience was very largely white, while last Saturday evening my wife and I ran a bar at a Live ‘n Local gig. The star of the show was an excellent black violinist from Minnesota who fronted an equally excellent folk rock fusion band. The audience was universally white.
The same is invariably true when I’m out walking and calling in at a country pub and if all those are a tad too anecdotal, it’s a fact that, of all our representatives in Parliament, just 14% are non white.
Just sayin’…but maybe food for thought for those with open minds.

[Andy_Faber]

It’s funny the things people of a certain persuasion - Ms. Pochin and Co. spring to mind - get hung up about. Yet they seem reluctant to look at the other side of the ‘quota’ coin.
Some of my favourite things are, in no particular order, attending live sport, live theatre, live music events, walking in rural Derbyshire and country pubs.
Next time any of us are at Pride Park I suggest you have a look around at the crowd. Think I’d guarantee it’ll be around 90% white. The same was true at the Test Match I went to at Old Trafford last August and I imagine the international rugby match crowd I’ll be part of at Everton next Saturday will be much the same.
A couple of weeks ago I attended Nottingham Playhouse and, apart from a smattering of Asian pupils from Oakham public school, the audience was very largely white, while last Saturday evening my wife and I ran a bar at a Live ‘n Local gig. The star of the show was an excellent black violinist from Minnesota who fronted an equally excellent folk rock fusion band. The audience was universally white.
The same is invariably true when I’m out walking and calling in at a country pub and if all those are a tad too anecdotal, it’s a fact that, of all our representatives in Parliament, just 14% are non white.
Just sayin’…but maybe food for thought for those with open minds.

I think that’s helping to make the point that the vast majority of those ‘in the conversation’ yesterday were making (although not Pochin herself) and that is that the real life demographic experienced by the vast majority of the population isn’t reflected on broadcast media. There’s various (published and anecdotal) lines of thought on why that is, regrettably most of which are met with ‘you’re racist’.

[ramAnag]

I think that?’s helping to make the point that the vast majority of those ?‘in the conversation?’ yesterday were making (although not Pochin herself) and that is that the real life demographic experienced by the vast majority of the population isn?’t reflected on broadcast media. There?’s various (published and anecdotal) lines of thought on why that is, regrettably most of which are met with ?‘you?’re racist?’.

You’d have to explain that a little further, but Pochin’s comments were surely undeniably racist, on the basis that she was making a negative and derisory comment based entirely on ethnicity and colour. That isn’t responsible behaviour on the part of an MP imo.