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Political correctness gone mad!
"Nitty gritty"
Police minister John Denham was reprimanded when he used the term at a police conference in 2002.
During a discussion at the annual conference of the Police Federation, he said that it was time to "get down to the nitty gritty" on training of officers, which he was later told was not PC as it supposedly has racist overtones dating back to the days of slavery.
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