LH - "Alf Garnett" was a character, played by Warren Mitchell, in the BBC series "Till death us do part", shown in the late 1960's and 1970's. Alf Garnett was a bigoted, narrow-minded and ill-mannered boor, an East London petit bourgois who was ready to adopt and parrot phrases such as, "'Cause there's all these asians like, who are all coming over here in ships full of curry powder, just so they can take our jobs. And it's all your Labour government's fault!" [Harold Wilson's Labour party was in power for much of the time the series was written.]

The series was dropped for a while, ostensibly because Mitchell was involved in an off-screen scuffle with someone, but perhaps because it was becoming too provocative in content.

Incidentally, the series featured Tony Blair's future father-in-law, Tony Booth, as Garnett's son-in-law. (Garnett's daughter was played by Una Stubbs, his wife by Dandy Nicholls, no longer with us.)