Sometimes, I often get the feeling that the whole 'Political Correctness' thing was in fact dreamed up by some far-right fascist group, because I think it causes more tension and anger than it solves.

There's an internet banking company in the UK called Egg. They ran a series of TV adverts with the tagline 'If you don't look after your money, who will?' and they were shot in a faux-documentary style showing various con artists and scammers at work.

They featured:

1) Two white guys running a postal lottery scam that just needs you to send the registration fee along so you can claim your winnings.

2) A white Scotsman selling off pieces of turf and claiming they were from the old pitch at Wembley Stadium.

3) A white American woman running a pyramid scheme investment seminar

4) A white car mechanic telling how he drives the bill up because most people know nothing about cars

5) Two white 'Fell off the back of a lorry' East End traders

6) A white bodybuilder selling a fitness supplement that doesn't work.

I think there were two more, again with white crooks in them, but I can't remember the scams. Even with six separate ads, you think they could have squeezed one ethnic minority in right? Affirmative action and all that?

Now, if the ads had been filmed with an all-black cast, then people would be up in arms and screaming about racism.

Of course, nobody complains about the ads because the doctrine of political correctness tells us that a) white people can't be victims of racism and b) all racism is perpetrated by whites.

However, these ads are racist in that there is some struggling black actor sitting at home, just waiting for a break, a chance to get his foot in the door and show what he can do, thinking 'I could do that! I could play the best Nigerian 411 scammer you've ever seen!', but he won't ever get the chance because of political correctness. Thus it hurts the very people it purports to be protecting...ain't it grand?