However I don’t feel that hijacking an innocent (but in bad taste) sketch will do any lasting good to your cause. There’s no reason why the profile of these crimes shouldn’t be heightened to enable you and your countrymen to work against them effectively.

Latching onto a popular sketch show however isn’t the way to do this. This will blow over whatever happens.

I’ve been stopped in the streets for all sorts of reasons by fundraisers from all sorts of causes, but never have I been asked to donate money to fight the crimes that you describe above. I can’t help but think a more concerted campaign of awareness would benefit you and your people - and ultimately all of us.

But please remember: the butt of the joke isn’t the maid. That is why I described her as incidental. Not out of any sort of callous disregard, but because she could quite as easily have been a different character if the sketch was centred around a different culture or section of society.

Regards
Christian

To remind us we are a nation with over 12 million migrants in 193 countries and territories. To remind us that our piss-poor governments of the past three decades have been whoring its people to work as migrants with little rights abroad. To remind us that the billion dollar remittances they send home, the third largest in the world, are earned in quite literally blood, sweat and tears. To remind us that migrant labour deserve rights and protection. To remind us that the few entrenched elites in this country is determined to keep the many poor hopeless and without opportunities that they would brave working in Iraq at the height of the war. To remind us that very young Filipinas are trafficked out of the country by the tens of thousands.

So, yes. Thank you Harry Enfield. Here’s to more laughs.