British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill

My point was that the marker is there already. Those films that could cause the deepest offence and could impact on the behaviour of adults are not classified. I agree with what a lot of hon. Members have said. First, judgment is terribly personal on such matters. The BBFC will not always get it right, but it is doing an incredibly good job in a difficult area. Judgment is personal and judgment will change. Let me give my personal judgment. In preparing for today's debate, I, like the hon. Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale), asked for a copy of ““SS Experiment Camp””. Last Saturday night my husband and I watched two films. The first was ““This is England””, which I had not managed to see before, and which had received BAFTA and Oscar nominations; the other was ““SS Experiment Camp””. Some of the scenes in ““This is England”” were utterly outrageous and horrible and could very well have had an impact on the behaviour of young people. The film was set in the '80s, but it could have been in 2008. One scene showed the crazy and unnecessary vandalism of a building. It was horrific to watch such pointless vandalism; if one wants to link action in a movie and action in real life, the scene could have done so. The film included—Members must excuse me if this is unparliamentary language—a scene of the most horrific Paki-bashing by a young group of National Front members. They knocked the living daylights out of a young Pakistani boy. Such a scene could resonate with some of the most violent racist abuse nowadays, which I certainly see in my constituency, and it was utterly horrible, yet ““This is England”” is a powerful film that succeeded in gaining BAFTA and Oscar nominations.