 We often hear that left-wingers are a sensorious bunch of snowflakes. Sometimes that's true. Although it is overblown. The point is overblown. One thing is for sure. The one thing we can all agree on is that there is no one more skin, more thin skinned in this country. No one more likely to make a complaint to the manager when they see something that just makes them feel, you know, in the most minor way uncomfortable than Britain's nationalist right. And this became apparent again this week. When over 10,000 British right-wingers complained about a dance on the talent show, Britain's got talent. And now the performance by Dance Troop Diversity, they won the competition in 20 or 2009 and paid homage to the Black Lives Matter movement. You can probably guess why these complainants were so annoyed. Let's take a look at some images of the performance. Unfortunately, we can't show you it for copyright reasons. You can look it up on YouTube. So you've got here. You can see the Troop here. Hopefully we can also see some images of cops kneeling on one of the black performers neck. You've got dancers filming that on smartphones and people dancing around riot cops. It's worth looking at it yourself. So I thought it was a pretty good performance. I mean, it's a little bit cheesy, but it's Saturday Night TV. The message was good. But yes, 10,000 people, over 10,000 people have made complaints. That's the most complaints, the second most complaints in a decade for a dance, for a dance and Black Lives Mattering. Now, I want to show you a clip, which is one of the members of this Troop talking about this experience on Kiss FM. So this is Jordan Banjo. He is one of the leaders of this group, Diversity, because they won in 2009, they've become sort of celebrities. Now, Jordan Banjo hosts a Kiss Breakfast show with his or another member of the Troop, Harry Healy or Keely. So this week, he spoke about the raft of complaints about their performance live on now. Let's take a look. We won Britain's Got Talent 11 years ago and never, ever to anything we've done and we had a response like this. Normally it's always love and of course you get some critique like, but normally it's focused on the dance, right? And this one, it was different. Like Pell said, it was really, it was really important. It was special to us. And, you know, we're all about positivity and love. And we got so much positivity and love back from this one. But we also got, you know, bombarded with messages and articles and horrible stuff about all of us, about our families, about how even now, diversity isn't diverse enough because there's only five white people in it. Like, man, it's like, I can't speak for anyone else, but it's sad, like it's sad. Gently, I feel anxious and worried saying something like Black Clive's Mouth when that's all we want, man. Like it's just love and positivity. Like no one's saying only Black Clive's Mouth, but I don't, like as a son, as a, as a dad, like I look at Pell and I just want to, yeah, man, it's all positivity, it's all love. But let's keep it moving on kiss. I mean, that's really horrible to watch. Like the guy is nearly in tears. And you can see, if you, I really do recommend you go watch the piece because especially just to realise how little it takes to trigger Britain's right wing nationalists. Because, you know, you might be imagining, oh, people were this annoyed, maybe it included, you know, them saying, fuck the police, all cops are bastards. You know, we need to overthrow the state. They didn't say any of that. All they said was Black Lives Matter. And actually it was quite, it was quite a positive message. They were basically saying that coronavirus has now sort of brought us together. People clapping NHS workers, let's build, you know, a more positive society. There were rainbows in the background. This was shown on, you know, Saturday night on ITV. This was not a, but it was radical in a way, but it wasn't an aggressive aura. It didn't have any incontroversial in it. Other than lots of Black people, and actually it's a mixed organisation, so there's Black people, White people, people from all ethnicities in this troupe, talking about how Black Lives Matter, how we should challenge police violence and how we should try and build a more inclusive anti-racist society. And that is enough to get 10,000 people to complain to ITV to say, this should not be on our televisions on a Saturday evening. Now, some of the news stories about this have been a little bit coy about what precisely was in these complaints. I suppose you can kind of imagine what it's going to be and maybe the journalist didn't want to repeat it. But we can see, I sort of looked, you know, where has this been critiqued in the mainstream media? You know, I wanted to find an example of who has a problem with this. And surprise, surprise, there was a complaint in the telegraph or, you know, the write-up in the telegraph sort of intimated towards why people were so annoyed that people would dare go on ITV and do a performance about Black Lives Mattering. So this is in the telegraph. The abuse directed at Banjo is obviously unacceptable. Racial injustice, moreover, is clearly a subject which needs to be protested on the airwaves. In the case of diversity, the crux of the issue would appear to be whether Britain's Got Talent was the appropriate forum to deliver that message, or whether a brave and dignified gesture has backfired. While many will consider it the correct thing to have done, the thousands bombarding off-com clearly don't agree. They presumably believe that the ITV talent show should be a safe space for those wishing to take a breather from the turmoil sweeping the world. They may even feel that the broadcaster was in breach of its implicit promise that Britain's Got Talent is where you go when you want to forget about the strife beyond your front door. If you can't escape from it all on a Simon Cowell produced ITV variety series, then where can you? Now, this is just the most classic apologia for people who don't want to hear about racism. It's like, oh, yeah, people should talk about racism, but they shouldn't talk about it on the kind of shows which the general public watch. They should talk about them on shows which aren't on at prime time. They should talk about them on shows where only people who are already converted watch them. What these people don't want is for convincing persuasive messages. I'm sure the majority of people who watched that performance found it incredibly powerful, having it probably reminded them of the justice that goes on in this world and the damage that is done to black people by institutional racism, both in the United States and in the UK. And it's precisely that which is why writers in the telegraph why these 10,000 complainants are pissed off because they know this is effective. It's effective having an inclusive, powerful message going out on prime time television which is telling people racism still exists, it matters, and we need to fight it. And that's what boils their piss. And I can't stand that line which, you know, it's fine. Obviously, we have to protest racism. Just don't do it here. Go and watch it for yourselves. I mean, because I was just watching before we did the show and I thought, okay, like you said, there might be some sort of provocative about it. I mean, not that I would care, but you know, you have to think about the kind of audience member that might. It's completely inoffensive. And it makes you think, you know, if these people heard, you know, Sam Cook, chain gang, I've been working on the chain gang that I don't want to hear this about black oppression and black men working in the chain gangs in 1930s America. Thank you very much. Ofcom complain, like this is so crazy. We have a multi-racial, multi-cultural society. We should be able to address these things in a quite relaxed artistic way, which is what they did. This speaks to the fact we do have a very significant and vocal minority of people in this country who just don't want to be confronted with a bunch of things they don't like. You know, I don't watch much television these days. If you don't know what you're watching, change the channel. It's that easy. You know, if you liked everything that you saw on the television, you'd be watching it all the time. How hard is it? You aren't the center of the world and it gets this thing about the right cancel culture, the left is so obsessed with cancel culture. There is no bigger group of self-defined, self-reflective victims in this country than the right. You know, we saw Lawrence Fox yesterday. I'm a victim. I've been canceled because somebody blocked me. What the hell are you talking about? You know, the same guy, Lawrence Fox, said several months ago, he was watching the film 19... 17? 17. I haven't seen it. I want to watch it in a cinema. Great movie. 1917. And he said, oh, look, there's an Asian guy there. How ridiculous. 800... You know, in the first and second World War, I think in the second World War, I think 800,000 people of African origin, the biggest volunteer army in human history were people from South Asia fighting for the British Empire in the second World War. If you're ignorant, don't make that the rest of our problem as a society. It wasn't tokenism. It was actually, it was understating the contribution of people from beyond Europe, from the global south and the First World War. Read a book. And it is precisely what they accused the left of, because what right wingers say, the left, they've got coddled minds. So they don't want to know the truth if it offends them. That's exactly what's going on here. Lawrence Fox doesn't, you know, it might be the case that black people would fight, or they were, but I mean, we're taking his perspective. It might be the case that non-white people were fighting on the Western front in the second World War, the First World War. But I don't want to know. Why should I have to know that? It's the same here. Oh, it might be the case. No one's denying that white people do kill black people in the United States because of police violence, but we don't want to know. They want to coddle their own minds because they don't want to know about any of the injustices that are going on in the world in case it makes them feel uncomfortable.