Wop-Ho: The Dear Old Queen Mother Was The EU Embodied

THE Queen Mother was “ghastly bigot”, says BBC presenter Edward Stourton.

Stourton, the presenter of the Today programme, has penned a book on political correctness and why we could for so long not call the Queen Mum a spoon-fed, wooden-toothed old soak and had to prefix such opinion with “The dear old is a…”

Stourton understands protocol and reveals the content of a private conversation with her in the early 1990s.

Though a BBC matter, the conversation was not conducted over the telephone and at no time can Mr Stounton be heard extolling the Queen Mum to ever greater acts of depravity while Princess Anne saddles up.

After he told her he was back from a European summit, the dear old Queen Mum said:

“It will never work, you know . . . It will never work with all those Huns, wops and dagos.”

Of course, the modern British parliament is all inclusive, and the likes of George Joachim Goschen, Michael Portillo, John Profumo, in that order. Moreover, the Princess Diana chambers were open to opne and all. (Edward, there’s a sequel in this - call me.)

Says Stourton:

“The words were delivered with the eyes on maximum tiara-strength twinkle, but I am afraid I froze. The Nation’s Favourite Grandmother was, I thought, in fact a ghastly old bigot, a prey to precisely the kind of prejudice which had driven the conflicts the European project had been designed to prevent . . . I thought that what she had said was nasty and ugly.”

Of course what with her Anglo-German heritage and nabob-hued teeth, the dear old etc. was

“I didn’t mean to be severe,” says Stourton. “I just thought it was a striking illustration of how our attitudes have changed.”

And the fact that the dear old… is dead and a liberal white man at the BBC has a book to promote…

Anorak

Posted: 10th, November 2008 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

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June Says:
November 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

Bet she loved him too..

David Says:
November 10th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Anyone actually think it is working? At least from a British perspective?
She may have been on to something there…………..

Karen Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 12:22 am

If the Huns are the Germans, and the wops are the Italians and the dagos are the Spanish - then they were (until the 40s and 80s) the fascist nations… so if she’d pointed that out and called them stupid and scum she’d've been just like the Anti-fascists.

And it wasn’t bigotry that caused the war it was Germany trying (or needing) to expand it’s borders. What kind of idiots are working at the BBC….

Phil Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 9:44 am

Its just the same old liberal double standards. Take Barak Obama, the BBC berates whites who might not vote for Obama because he’s black and then cheer on blacks who register to vote for the first time because they can vote for a black president. As for the Queen Mother she has already been proved absolutely right and the newspeak that Stounton wants to impose on the British public can’t hide the facts.

yampster Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

I bought a replica set of the Queen Mum’s teeth on Ebay and I was surprised she had so many left. You may call them mahogany coloured but I prefer ‘Sunkist Popcorn beige’ as the correct shade

dairy Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Yampster …..why???

yampster Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

I have a dental colour chart and ‘Sunkist Popcorn beige’ is the colour that is the nearest match

lone pigeon Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

And why did you buy the teeth?

yampster Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

Oh. They are part of this island’s great heritage. During WWII Churchill wanted to send the Queen Mum’s teeth to Canada for safety. She refused and her teeth stayed here to face whatever the Hun could throw at them. Churchill, acknowledging the brave decision, had two dozen replica sets made to throw the Nazi’s off the scent should they ever invade. The set I bought were until recently the gate guard at Pirbright Barracks. I have letters of provenance.

Ian Thorpe Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Words are not racist, the intend behond them that is racist.

While I am surprised that an ex - public schoolboy does not understand what bigot really means (obviously Ampleforth is not as good as the public school I went to) I am not surprised that a Politically Correct BBC wuss would be unaware that trying to impose one’s moral prejudices on everybody is the act of a bigot.

Time that dreadful little oik Stourton learned his place.

(follow my link for Boggart Blog’s comic take on this story)