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We should stop using the term "the elite" because they are anything but elite. The so-called leadership would be more appropriate.

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I think Whitehouse held the opinion that even though she was basically a lone voice and therefore assured of receiving widespread mockery, she would have been falling below her own personal standards had she just sat back like everybody else and watched the creeping degeneracy unfold. By the late 1970s, she was about the only principled Briton left. Were the country being invaded by a foreign army, while all the native men caroused or even cheered as the sound of jackboots got louder, Mary Whitehouse would have stood alone and faced the enemy - sword in hand and in her petticoat.

In 1995 Whitehouse apparently appeared on the Mrs Merton Show, although not in the studio. I can't find any footage, but I'm sure they would have been giving her a spiteful kicking. A size-5 Patrick Cox Wannabe Loafer from behind and between the legs for the old dear, as she was slowly exiting the stage to hoots of derision from Cool Britannia. By this point, Caroline Aherne would have already flowered into the alcoholic husband-beater who would later attempt suicide and finally die of lung cancer at the age of 52.

Had Mary Whitehouse not been left to fight the British entertainment industry alone, we might not live in an era when her life is ridiculed while Aherne's is celebrated.

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