The BBC has removed a scene from a drama about Margaret Thatcher in which the former prime minister is seen to swear after complaints that she did not use bad language.

The forthcoming BBC4 film The Long Walk to Finchley, about Baroness Thatcher’s early life, originally featured a scene in which she screams “fucking establishment!” in frustration at what she saw as the male-dominated world of Tory politics.

Baroness Thatcher’s daughter Carol and others argued that she did not use bad language, even when under considerable pressure, and that it was unusual for a woman to do so in the 50s.

The BBC controller of fiction, Jane Tranter, has now confirmed that the scene will be cut from the final programme.

“It will not be included,” she told the Daily Telegraph.

“The primary reason for that is because we do not want to cause any offence to Margaret Thatcher.”

Check me if I’m wrong but this is a piece of fiction, is it not?  It surely must be if the “controller of fiction” (what a title) is overseeing the project.  Do we need to explain the concept of fiction to its supposed controller?  IT’S NOT REAL, LUV!

More pertinently, who gives a flyer if it offends That Bloody Woman?  She didn’t give a gnat’s chuff about whether I was offended by what she did.

And I was.

A lot.

So the fucking cunt can go and fuck right off.