I think Q is for quagmire, which is what you have gotten yourself into. Just joking.

I can always keep trying till who knows, Marlene Mizzi might make it to Brussels and stand in for me. Do it, Marlene.

Because they don’t believe a word of it.

Look, the fact is that once you start to differentiate between people based on a perceived belonging to one group or another you actually highlight difference rather than encourage unity.

In places like the UK you have to tick a box to tell them what group you perceive yourself as belonging to. I for one am always stuck at this point. I am not white, black, or Asian. What am I then? Really, how does it change my potential future workplace whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, white or black? The only distinguishing factor I can understand as relevant is ‘disabled’ as things may have to be organised from a logistics point of view to accommodate my participation in the workforce.

As a case in point of certain NGOs purposely stoking the fire, take the recent abuse of an Australian man of Maltese descent on a bus in QLD, Australia. Before there was time to verify the facts every NGO under the sun was claiming that the ‘Indigenous man (Aboriginal Australian)’ had been violently racially abused. They capitalised as soon as possible as that is their bread and butter. The fact is that by jumping at the opportunity and publicising the attack of an indigenous man — even though he was not indigenous — means they brought renewed relevance to their cause. Of course, by the time it was later revealed that the man was not indigenous the public was no longer interested. Therefore, in the eyes of the public, contrary to the facts, the man who was attacked on the bus was indigenous and it was an indictment of the rampant racism towards indigenous Australians in Australia – which as it happens I do not deny exists.

However, this raises another point. Why would an attack on an indigenous man be any more disgusting than an attack on a non-indigenous man – let’s say of Macedonian or Peruvian descent?

I have been the recipient of sexist and racist abuse not to mention the victim of religious intolerance but I have never made a meal of it. That would only empower my aggressors who will most likely change their minds on their opinion towards me in the future anyway.

What wrong with good old homosexual?

If we really want an ‘inclusive’ acronym it should be LGBTAMT to include asexual, metrosexual, trisexual . . . and I bet I could think of other types of something-sexual if I tried.

Q? What’s Q? Isn’t that something to do with James Bond?

Blimey. You’re right.

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There’s also multisexual and polyamorous.

So it should be LGBTAMP.

In order to be even more inclusive, we should include the blow-up doll fetishists (BUDF).

So: LGBTAMPBUDF, as well as the Sexually disAbled.

Hence: LGBTAMPBUDFSA.

As in: “Although Baxxter is metrosexual, he believes he can further the cause of all LGBTAMPBUDFSAs by campaigning for a standardisation of acronyms in the European Parliament. Make your life simpler – Vote Baxxter.”