When political correctness goes wrong - the biggest offenders

As foot-in-mouth merchant Silvio Berlusconi finishes his first week of community service, Dave Kenny picks some examples of other people who’ve been in hot water with the political correctness brigade.

SILVIO Berlusconi has just finished his first week of community service. The former Italian prime minister was found guilty of tax fraud and ordered to work with Alzheimer’s patients.

Silvio is probably best-known for being one of the most un-PC politicians in Europe. He once described Angela Merkel as “un****able” (ie he didn’t want to go to bed with her). On another occasion he told an African priest he had “a nice tan”.