The daughter of ex-British Prime Minister and semi-professional impersonator of Zelda from Terrahawks Margaret Thatcher could be a racist.

Unrelatedly, the Pope is reported to be “off for a dump in the woods”.

It never rains alleged racism, but it pours. Following hot on the fascistic little heels of Miley Cyrus comes the news that Carol Thatcher, manly daughter of ex-PM Maggie, may have said something that could maybe, perhaps on a foggy night, have been taken as, well, terrifyingly klanlike.

Apologies, but we must bring you the shocking and perhaps worldview-changing factish that a member of Margaret Thatcher’s family holds somewhat less than tolerant views of non-white people. It’s hard, but we’re just about holding it together here: Maggies’s manly daughter, Carol, reportedly still holds in her tiny mind the image of a golliwog as an appropriate reference for describing people with curly hair.

Love her or hate her, there’s no denying that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a forthright lady. “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” “I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.” And, “Ronnie’s been acting a bit funny lately, think he’s lost a sandwich?”

Well, it seems that as the saying has it: “Like offensively prejudiced mother, like unreformedly bigoted daughter”, because Carol Thatcher is in some hot water for making remarks that could possibly, slightly, just a little bitly, be seen as horrifyingly racist.

Now, for us and you, whenever we are shown a cartoon golliwog we think only of the times when we used to see the image on the sides of jam jars and how we would turn the container in our hands, trying to find the hidden swastika. But apparently, when Carol Thatcher sees a golliwog, her first thought is “oh titter, what hilarious hair the little black chap has”.

Or at least, that is her defence against the charges of racism which have arisen from a private conversation she had with Adrian Chiles (face like a bulldog after a stroke) and Jo Brand (wood-melting fat lady). Faced with charges that she described a professional tennis player as a ‘golliwog’, Carol has been shouting that she was referring to his hair. And definitely not the completely irrelevant fact wherever did you get that idea from that he’s a darkie. According to The Mirror:

Her spokeswoman called it a harmless joke. She said: “She made a light aside about this player and the similarity to the golliwog on the jam pot when she was growing up.” Carol added: “I’m completely baffled by all the fuss.”

Defining people by their hair? Seems fair to us. Whenever we see Jeremy Clarkson on the telly we can’t help ourselves but be overcome by the shout: “Oh, God. You are a horrific twat”.

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