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Ellen Stewart
Oct 04, 2015
Cast your mind back to July this year. It was still warm outside and the nation's favourite baking show was about to take to the air once again.
Daily Mail columnist Quentinn Letts was angry over the 'right on' Great British Bake Off line up...
Bloke with tattoos, check. Muslim with a headscarf, check. Househusband, check. Afro-Caribbean, check.
Fast forward to the here and now and the DM is offering up another unique take on the show.
As news broke of 19-year-old Flora's departure from GBBO the paper thrust its judgement on the BBC's apparent PC motive into the news-scape.
Poor Flora wasn't PC enough for Beeb.... now we're down to the final three, it's certainly a PC triumph. We are left with Muslim mum Nadiya Hussain, gay doctor Tamal Ray, and New Man Ian Cumming. Poor Flora Shedden never stood a chance. She was far too middle class - and was booted off this week after her chocolate carousel was deemed sub-standard.
Perhaps if she’d made a chocolate mosque, she’d have stood a better chance.
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