What a sad indictment of our toxic culture that the first thing a host of leading political figures and celebrities thought to do after 18-year-old Emma Raducanu's historic victory on Saturday night was to use her heritage to make a divisive political point.
Genuine patriots were joyously celebrating watching an actual fairy tale in real time as the Brit who was ranked 361st in the world before Wimbledon and has recently completed her A-levels won the US Open against all odds, becoming one of our biggest – and richest – sporting stars overnight.
But the first instinct of the bitter loony Left was to play the race card to try, once again, to paint the most tolerant nation in the world as something we're not.
Divisive Mayor Sadiq Khan, a specialist in sowing division online, immediately headed to his poisoned keyboard to politicise what should have been a unifying moment for the UK.
What a sad indictment of our toxic culture that the first thing a host of leading political figures and celebrities thought to do after 18-year-old Emma Raducanu's historic victory on Saturday night was to use her heritage to make a divisive political point
Without even bothering to spell Emma's name correctly, he posted alongside emojis of the Canadian, Chinese and Romanian flags, as well as the Union Jack: 'Emma Radacanu's (sic) story is London's story. Born in Canada to Chinese and Romanian parents, she moved to London at two-years-old.
'Here in London, we embrace and celebrate our diversity. And if you work hard, and get a helping hand, you can achieve anything.'
The even more toxic Alastair Campbell – a bloke who helped spin the UK into the illegal war in Iraq – thought it made sense to use the win by the apolitical teen from Kent to stick it to the government over immigration.
He tweeted to the Home Secretary, whose own parents are immigrants from Uganda: 'Isn't it great to be from a country where a child born in Canada to Romanian and Chinese parents can come to Britain aged two and become a (British) national heroine within 16 years? Let's try and keep the country that way shall we @pritipatel?'
Good Moaning Britain's pale imitation of Piers Morgan, Adil Ray, who spends his life chasing Twitter likes, waded in too.
Playing to his liberal following, he wrote: 'Get in. Emma Raducanu the immigrant from a Romanian, Chinese, Canadian family grand slams the haters. This is the Britain we love.'
Why late on a Saturday night, as most folk like me downed copious quantities of booze in the pub as the big screens showed the tennis free-to-air, would these prominent faces of the so-called liberal Left decide to stoke an argument about immigration and ethnicity if they were not race-baiting?
And why the need to so publicly define Emma as an immigrant?
In that moment, Emma's skin colour and where she was born should have been completely irrelevant.
She's British – and she was representing Britain!
Why the desire to always define everyone and everything by ethnicity?
It's more irrefutable proof that it's the Left in this country always desperate to start a culture war based on identity politics.
Perhaps the worst take was from liberal TV executive Dominic Minghella - the creator of ITV's
