THE POLITICALLY CORRECT MAP OF BRITAIN

Workington: Staff at Cumbrian Seafoods in Workington have been banned from smoking on their way to work. The ban also applies while they are on lunch breaks or leaving work, irrespective of whether they depart on foot or in a private vehicle. A memo sent to all staff warned that they will be sacked if they break the rules.

Wales: Schools in Wales were criticised for having too many pictures on their walls of red dragons, sheep, daffodils, coal mines and ladies in tall black hats. Inspectors from Estyn, the Welsh equivalent of Ofsted, said children should be presented with more modern images of the principality, such as economic regeneration and multiculturalism.

Heathrow: A 39 year old man was sentenced to a two year community rehabilitation order for pinching a check-in woman's bottom at Heathrow Airport. When sentencing businessman Austin McDonagh, Judge Paul Focke said he feared he was taking too lenient a course. "Normally a prison sentence would be appropriate."

Bognor Regis: Children taking donkey rides at a seaside festival in Bognor Regis this summer were issued with hard hats. Arundel District Council said that children riding along the promenade needed the head protection for safety reasons. "I could understand if it was a donkey derby or something" said one of the organisers of the Sands of Time event. "But it was just a gentle stroll."

Edinburgh: A French tourist who smacked his eight year old son outside a restaurant in Edinburgh was held in a police cell for two nights and charged with common assault. The child had been taken outside and slapped on the bottom after repeatedly misbehaving at the dinner table. Two passers by reported the incident to the police. Sylvian Boquelet will return to Scotland to face trial in February.

Birmingham: Snowmen are sexist, according to Dr Tricia Cusack of Birmingham University, who has carried out a five year study into their 'cultural meanings'. Due to their customary position on the front lawn, snowmen - "of course white, invariably male" - reinforce the idea that men belong in the public sphere while woman belong in the home. "Is it accidental," she asks, "in view of the Western narrative of actual masculine domination of nature/female, that out of virgin snow a male icon is built - or erected?"

Norwich: Councillors ordered that 20 road-side horse chestnut trees should be felled on the grounds that conkers pose a threat to life and limb. Norwich City Council said that children could suffer serious head injuries from sticks thrown up to knock down conkers, while motorists could be distracted by falling husks.

Wickford: A village baker who advertised his 'English' bread sticks as being better than 'that French rubbish' was told to take the poster down - or face prosecution under the Race Relations Act. Three police officers arrived at Daryl Barke's shop in Wickford, Essex, after receiving a complaint from a member of the public. They told him that the ad - which had been in his shop window for two years - could 'stir up racial hatred'.

…………. MEANWHILE, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS CONTINUES TO FLOURISH ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

The University of California in Los Angeles has created 50 new courses since 11 September to 'explore the scope of issues emerging from the terrorist attacks'. In future, students will be able to study such topics as Navigating Between Blithesome Optimism and Cultural Despair, Women's Participation in Political Violence, and Understanding the Unthinkable and Incomprehensible.

Inmates of the Pascoe County jail in Florida complained that their new black and white striped uniforms, which replaced their orange outfits, were 'degrading'. "They make us look like convicts", said prisoner Shawn McCarthy.

A leading primary school in New York has banned Mother's Day and Father's Day to protect the feelings of children brought up by gay parents. "Holidays that serve no educational purpose need to be re-evaluated, as the recognition of these holidays in a social setting may not be a positive experience for all children," explained Cindi Samson of the Rodelph Sholom Day School.

The game of 'tag' has been outlawed in a school in the US because it violates the school's 'no touching' policy. A spokesman for the West Minneapolis education authority explained that children might not know the difference between 'good touches and bad touches'. "What we're trying to do," she explained, "is use structured discipline policies and logical consequences to let youngsters know what the rules are."
Extract from 'The Week', 22nd December 2001

CTM Comment: In 2002, CTM and Credence are opening up our research on the fraudulent and destructive effects of Outcome Based Education and a myriad of psychiatrically driven initiatives designed to destroy the concept of right and wrong in our society. One such area is the nonsensical system of social and professional 'political correctness'. Most ordinary, decent folk know the difference between right and wrong, but how many want to face the barrage of indignant ripostes from the minority, but media-driven liberal establishment, whose social experiments with drugs, pornography, Freud and subverting our children with 'the beautiful side of evil' have wrought the havoc we see on our streets today.

Don't be mad. Let's be educated on these issues and then act.