So, for the first time in a long time, we British have done the right and decent thing and sent a powerful message. Well 62% of us sent a message, and that is pretty powerful, at least it is a clear majority. The message? That we are disgusted by the bullying behaviour with racial undertones that poured out of the mouth of 3 stupid girls on a TV Reality Show. The reality of it all is that the behaviour of the perpetrators was real, it was not an act, it was how they themselves thought. And that reality represented what some people in the UK also think. I have heard it myself as others talk about the incidents and I confess that there does appear to be a racial element to the behaviour, but I think it is more than that.
I think that it is something that the Romans first taught us around AD65 and we learned the lesson, but not quite well enough, but boy we really took it on board when the French came over in 1066 and gave us finishing school. We learnt the art of bullying as a nation, hell, we built an empire on it. The sad actions of 3 stupid women just represent the ghosts of Roman and French classes that as a Nation only 62% of us seem to have moved beyond as we approach by bi-millennium and millennium anniversaries of those defining lessons.
You will notice I haven't mentioned the names of the three tormentors of Shilpa Shetty, and nor shall I. They deserve to be forgotten and buried, and mentioning their names, even in a little read blog, only goes to perpetuate them.
Assuming that TV company C4 did not brief Shilpa before the televised interview with the word stumbling Davina McCall, her reaction on hearing of the furore was indeed magnanimous and simply reinforced my view that Shilpa is probably simply a lovely person who happens to be a highly successful actress, (and a failed model it seems). Shilpa can go from strength to strength in her career, but I suspect that she has the power to do more. She has the power to weaken further the underlying bullying that once made Britain great, but that needs to be abolished as we move forward to a United multi ethnic and multi racial Britain. There are 38% of the population still to win over. If Shilpa's speech as winner was anything to go by, she can indeed do it, helped and abetted by the disappearance from all public memory of three stupid women.