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Is Charlie Brooker an anti-northern racist?
I usually love the guy, but there's something about Philomena Cunk that doesn't sit right with me. I think the accents supposed to be from Wigan or Bury or something and that he created a character to unleash his closet Edwina Currie Tory prejudices that all people from Lancashire are pie eating simpletons with an IQ lower than Steven Gerrards Premier league medal count.
I also feel uncomfortable with Chris Morris and Four Lions. He seems to be thinking it's okay to mock Muslims if they come from small northern mill towns like Nelson, Burnley etc. He would never indulge in such prejudiced behaviour if they were his trendy metropolitan elite Muslim mates from somewhere edgy like Ruislip, Bushey or Surbiton. I think this is the mentality that leads to Nigel Garage becoming director general of the BBC and we need to protest