I don't have too much of a problem with the word. Here is the wiki entry for it :::
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/***
(not sure if this is going to get past the AN censor, but if it doesn't, it's easy to bring up the Wiki page )
The reason that this woman got the sack wasn't so much her use of the word, but her views of people of this ethnicity. What I do have a problem with is that this woman confessed to a dislike of people from that community, and she did this in front of a BBC camera crew. She has shown a grave lack of judgement and Farage is well shot of her.