The latest "celebrity" to do a shit travel programme and experience life in other cultures is Caroline Quentin. Why on earth do we need yet another view of India from a fuckin' touring all-expenses-paid TV twat, going on a personal journey but sharing it with us. It starts on Tuesday evening, so plan to do something else. There will no doubt be the odd emotional scene especially following her sudden awareness that a poor girl lives in a shack made of milk crates and paper, and that some old skinny chap, who is massively likeable, has to feed 17 people on 27p per day. Meanwhile, the Indian government spends twenty three billion pounds per year on defence!
I resent my screen being filled by CQ, and the misplaced shit that's served up. Next month, another dozy "personality" will be touring South Africa and trying to summon up in us some sympathy for people suffering hardship. Commendable, but the corruption that surrounded the financing of the World Cup makes is stupid for us to try and feel responsible. Countries most often have themselves to blame for the plights of many of their citizens. While governments fuck up, and get priorities wrong, we send a cameraman, sound man, editor, make-up person and personal assistant with each and every idiot abroad.
The whole thing's Quntin stupid.
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