that rhyme rather than others". Even other political parties ran with the story. A party election broadcast for the Social Democratic Party, fronted by John Cleese, named Islington council as "the council that accused a five year old of reciting a racially offensive poem". Islington council sought an injunction in the High Court to have this material excluded, but this was denied by Mr Justice Drake. David Owen dropped the material anyway, stating that it was to avoid further distress to the five-year-old's family. Ironically, the press reported Owen's press conference, announcing this change as "loony" David Owen "outclowning anything that Basil Fawlty could have thought up". In 2000, the BBC reported the withdrawal of guidance to nursery schools by Birmingham City Council that "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" should not be taught. Peter Jenkins Peter Jenkins, a columnist for The Guardian and The Independent, recorded policies which were dubbed "loony left" by the media. For instance, Haringey council allowed only Nicaraguan coffee to be sold and introduced courses on homosexuality into its nursery and primary schools. Hackney London Borough Council ended its twinning arrangements with France, West Germany and Israel and made new twinnings with the Soviet Union, East Germany and Nicaragua. A spokesperson for the council explained: "This will enable us to concentrate on our new friends". When Sinn Féin representatives were invited to speak to Hackney council, a Liberal fired a revolver and there was a fight in the council chamber. Lambeth London Borough Council banned the word "family" from council literature because this was "discriminatory" and police were banned from using council facilities. Lambeth council's leader, Linda Bellos, claimed: "I think the police are bent on war". Ealing council removed all books it considered to be "racist" and "sexist" from its local libraries. An Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) teaching pack titled Auschwitz: Yesterday's Racism drew comparisons between the trade union legislation of Adolf Hitler and Margaret Thatcher. Another ILEA school in Kennington discouraged competitive games and making pupils write protest letters was made part of the school time-table. See also Champagne socialist Limousine liberal Moonbat People's Republic of South Yorkshire SJW References Further reading Councils in Conflict: The Rise and Fall of the Municipal Left, Lansley, Goss and Wolmar, Palgrave Macmillan, 1989 Political slurs Left-wing politics in the United Kingdom Linguistic controversies Political terms in the United Kingdom