I’ll give it 48 hours. No, on second thoughts make that 24. I’ll happily wager that by this time tomorrow Geoff Norcott – the self-styled only openly conservative comedian on the circuit – who has just been appointed to the BBC’s new five-strong ‘diversity and inclusion panel’ will be an ex-member. And, that the BBC will be profusely apologising for its ‘misjudgement’ in appointing him in the first place.
It is not that he will have said or done anything in his post between now and then, of course. But you simply cannot have a straight white man – still less one who backs Brexit – on a ‘diversity’ panel. That misunderstands the concept of diversity altogether – which is that it exists only for the promotion of professional victims. Norcott might be working class – which is why, it seems, he has been appointed – but that is not enough nowadays to earn you enough victim points in order to qualify for membership of so important a public role.
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