The Conservative Party has come under attack after its official Christmas card avoided any reference to Christmas.
This year’s Conservative Party’s official Christmas cards are devoid of any Christian symbols, preferring pictures of robins and red phone boxes in the snow over traditional scenes of Jesus in a manger or the Three Kings. Instead of wishing people a Merry Christmas, the cards instead display the message ‘Season’s Greetings’.
A Conservative backbencher has criticised his own party for issuing the politically correct card. Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying:
‘If this decision has been made on a PC basis it would be totally unacceptable and I would be extremely saddened. This kind of pandering to extreme elements of the PC brigade is not something I would envisage from the Conservative Party. I have yet to meet anyone of any religion who is offended by people in this country celebrating Christmas.
‘The only people who complain are those who get offended on other people's behalf: the white middle-class Guardian-reading left-wing do-gooders with a misguided guilt complex and too much time on their hands,’ he added.
In 2007, Conservative leader David Cameron slammed politically correct Christmas cards which do not mention the word Christmas as ‘insulting tosh’. He said:
‘The idea that anyone ever could be offended by a Christmas card that says ‘Merry Christmas and Happy New Year’ and we’ve got to send one saying ‘Season’s greetings’; I think it’s just insulting tosh.
‘In fact, people – Muslims and Jews – are offended because it’s treating them in a silly and politically correct way,’ Mr Cameron added.
(See the Daily Telegraph report)
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