Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

I was a slut too, Prime Minister, and I think you’re giving in to PC nonsense

Another week of witless moral relativism at its most deluding

Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, allegedly used the term 'slut' in 2010 in connection with journalist, [Bryony Gordon Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images] 
issue 02 August 2014

Is it ever appropriate to use the word ‘slut’? I always take my lead from the Prime Minister and he has assured the country that it is never appropriate or acceptable, so henceforth I shall desist from employing the term. If, one evening, I come home from work to find my wife, naked, cheerfully and drunkenly providing sexual gratification to the entire first team squad of a Championship-level football club — Wigan Athletic, say, or Norwich City — I would simply remark: ‘How refreshing it is to see a woman unshackled from the oppressive sexist mores of our age and able to express herself in such an uninhibited manner. Would you like a cup of tea?’ The word slut would not pass my lips.

Dave got dragged into a world of sluts as a consequence of his newly promoted Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, having allegedly used the term in 2010 in connection with a journalist, a youngish lady called Bryony Gordon.

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