Row over Bengali Bonfire Night
Yes, not just Christmas but the P.C. brigade are sticking their noses into bonfire night, are they concerned about safety? Do they really have any idea about tradition?
At Tower Hamlets they plan:- A show Entitled
The Emperor and the Tiger,
a story about an Emperor and his tax collectors!
Produced by a Manchester arts charity, Walk the Plank. Liz Pugh, a producer with the company said,
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"that Bonfire Night was an anti-Catholic celebration involving the burning in effigy of Guy Fawkes, a Catholic. "We no longer want to be involved in that."
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Well yes, she is quite right, at the time this chap Fawkes who was a Catholic and very anti-establishment, I believe the term is 'terrorist' these days, was caught and ever since we have celebrated the fact that his plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament was foiled.
But in all the time that I can remember celebrating bonfire night the emphasis has always been on his failure to blow up the government not a lets stick it to the Catholics sort of night, I have never been to a bonfire party that was organised by religion.
Never have I heard of a 'Protestants only do', or a 'Catholics against persecution night', it has always been a 'hey, lets party and make sure the kids have a great time sort of night.'
Yes, at the time of the original plot the Protestants would have been a bit upset shall we say, that these Catholic upstarts wanted to cause a bit of agro', however these days I think the celebration is more to do with the fact that parliament wasn't destroyed than any form of religion bashing.
So please can we keep bonfire night as bonfire night and not have the P.C. idiots ruin yet another of our celebrations, so far as I'm concerned members of any religion and people of any colour can get together on this one night in the year and enjoy the fireworks, or am I some sort of misguided soul that should be thrown on the funeral pyre along with poor old Guy Fawkes for not being P.C. enough?