No and yes, in that order. She had to explain after being savaged overher snobby approach to nursery workers. Without wanting to trivialisethe issue, she'd said, she feared "a future generation of VickyPollards".
This was going to come about because of the role model presented bynursery workers who were bad spellers and able to cope only withtexting. For his next comedy caricature, Pollard's creator Matt Lucascould impersonate an elitist, out-of-touch chair who insultshard-working people to no purpose. Get used to the new catch-phrase -"without wanting to trivialise the issue" - followed by inanetrivialisations.
- The Daily Mail reports that adults are going to have to stop tellingchildren not to swing and rock in their chairs.
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