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East Sussex County Council. A Disgrace
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GlasgowLass | Report | 5 Nov 2014 18:51 |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 5 Nov 2014 19:06 |
why ? |
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Rambling | Report | 5 Nov 2014 19:29 |
Personally I find it juvenile to burn the effigy of a living person ( or a dead one come to that), Apparently Edenbridge burnt an effigy of Katie Hopkins last year, Lance Armstrong the year before, and other celebrities & politicians at other bonfires ( seems to be a South East thing mainly?).More money than sense clearly. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 5 Nov 2014 20:12 |
I once lived in a little place called East Hoathley not far from Lewes. Lewes is a strange place so far as one counts the families who have lived there since the year dot, just as dark as any Cornish or Welsh fishing village. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 5 Nov 2014 20:52 |
Don't think East Sussex council has any say in it. |
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Denis | Report | 6 Nov 2014 10:11 |
I AM a fan of Alex Salmond but I guess one can see both sides of this as long as it was intended to be humorous rather than malicious. Without being closer to events most of us are unable to tell. If the idea was that he was a threat to Parliament just like Guy himself then that's clever. If it's based on the fact that he's supposed to be anti-English then that's to totally misread him and recent events in Scotland. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 6 Nov 2014 10:29 |
The Waterloo Bonfire society chose and built it - after complaints the effigy was withdrawn. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 6 Nov 2014 10:36 |
They intended also to sing this: |
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Graham | Report | 6 Nov 2014 10:54 |
What are those burning crosses all about? :-S |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 6 Nov 2014 11:06 |
"...........but also commemorates the memory of the seventeen Protestant martyrs from the town burned at the stake for their faith during the Marian Persecutions." |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 6 Nov 2014 11:33 |
aka Bloody Mary |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 6 Nov 2014 11:38 |
Some of our odd traditions have a historical basis. We just have to look for them :-) |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 6 Nov 2014 11:51 |
Here's another political effigy |
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