Not sure if anyone picked up on it, but yesterday in Kent a UKIP MEP left her microphone on (oops) and was heard to call a Thai lady "a ting tong."
Here's a link -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...ting-tong.html

The BBC were inevitably onto it like an attack dog and on our local news gave it a massively disproportionate airing, whilst getting the "academic" opinion of some obscure professor at Kent University who clearly reveled in grinding his anti UKIP axe.

Long before I ever had a Filipino wife I found Little Britain's character to be racist, but hey ho it's a BBC comedy program!

Interesting that an expression that sprung from a BBC show offends them so much!