Congratulations are due to the Torygraph, of all newspapers, for drawing parallels between Roseanne and the Conservative Party – although it is Ms Barr’s off-screen behaviour that suggests the closest similarities.

The US sit-com has been cancelled – despite being a huge ratings success – because Ms Barr published a racist tweet about an advisor to former President Barack Obama:

The Conservative Party has been revealed as a hotbed of racism after the revelations about Theresa May’s “hostile environment” that led to the Windrush Scandal.

Questions have been asked about a racial aspect to the Conservative government’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire.

And multiple Tory candidates were suspended over alleged racism in the run-up to the local government elections this year.

So the Telegraph was right to compare Roseanne with the Conservatives – just not in the way the writer had imagined. As for it being a sit-com…

Like Ms Barr’s behaviour, some of us don’t think racism is funny.

---

Vox Political needs your help!
If you want to support this site
(but don’t want to give your money to advertisers)
you can make a one-off donation here:

Here are four ways to be sure you’re among the first to know what’s going on.

1) Register with us by clicking on ‘Subscribe’ (in the left margin). You can then receive notifications of every new article that is posted here.

2) Follow VP on Twitter @VoxPolitical

3) Like the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VoxPolitical/

Join the Vox Political Facebook page.

4) You could even make Vox Political your homepage at http://voxpoliticalonline.com

And do share with your family and friends – so they don’t miss out!

If you have appreciated this article, don’t forget to share it using the buttons at the bottom of this page. Politics is about everybody – so let’s try to get everybody involved!

Buy Vox Political books so we can continue
fighting for the facts.

The Livingstone Presumption is now available
in either print or eBook format here:

Health Warning: Government! is now available
in either print or eBook format here:

The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here: