Would she have got away with calling her

[Moscow Mule]

Agreed in principle but how do you decide how to legislate it.

By going to court and making case law.

Section 5 of the Public Order Act is a pretty handy catch-all for the Police and CPS.

Edit: Except Magistrates don't set precedent so unless an appeal to a higher court is rejected you can still call somebody a coconut and duke it out in court.

[Drewster]

The recipient of the comment - Shirley?

You are a really really nice guy!

I bet you can't get a conviction!

[doodab]

I can't help thinking this would make it illegal to call someone a Tunnock's Tea Cake.

[sasguru]

Prosecuted for calling some a coconut? Whatever next? FFS.
She should have been prosecuted for being an idiot for implying that providing handouts to ethnic minorities is an acceptable use of public money.

[Gibbon]

I can't help thinking this would make it illegal to call someone a Tunnock's Tea Cake.

If any of you call me a white chocolate coffee cream I'm reporting you.....


But in todays world I'd be in trouble for being offended by being likened to a black man......

[Mich the Tester]

Prosecuted for calling some a coconut? Whatever next? FFS.
She should have been prosecuted for being an idiot for implying that providing handouts to ethnic minorities is an acceptable use of public money.

Tut. Tut. These people

[minestrone]

I heard this on the News yesterday.

I didn't know that it was an offensive term until it was explained.

Btw, does this make Obama a coconut? Black(which is debatable) on the outside but white on the inside?

Ahh, right.

Never knew that.

I called Garth Crooks a cream egg the other day, I just though his head was the same shape as a cream egg now that he has put on about 10 stone.

[Drewster]

Ahh, right.

Never knew that.

I called Garth Crooks a cream egg the other day, I just though his head was the same shape as a cream egg now that he has put on about 10 stone.

Not a Cream "egg and spoon" - I hope

[sasguru]

Tut. Tut. These people

What part of my statement don't you agree with? and why?

[Mich the Tester]

What part of my statement don't you agree with? and why?

I agree with you. I am simply agreeing in the fashion of my father reading the Daily Wail.