A racist on the BBC?

Finally, after all these years, on BBC1 on Thursday night a racist was unveiled to the nation. Yes, Andrew Neil on 'This Week'; in the week that Gordon Brown was forced to admit his favourite type of biscuit, Neil referred to his two studio guests Dianne Abbott and Michael Portillo (pictured below) at the top on the show as a 'chocolate hobnob' and a 'custard cream'. Shocking.

Clearly no offence was intended, but it did create one of those double-take, 'Did he really just say that?' moments. Sadly the show is un-iPlayer-able (to coin a word).