Ban Bonfire Night

I have already told you not to go to Spain & Turkey on your holidays now I want you to join me in my tirade against Bonfire Night. You wont find it on the School Curriculum. You have to buy a Ladybird Book from Woolworths in Wrexham circa 1975 to get the story of why we "The Great British Patriotic Front" celebrate the torture of a Catholic Mercenary 414 years on from the event. I am writing this as a Puritan Protestant. In true Daffy Duck style I think that it's 'despicable' that we still stick an effigy on top of a Bonfire and set off fireworks to celebrate the torture of a man. All right, I know, it is to commemorate the successful foiling of a plot to blow up King James I and Parliament but observing that shit show for as long as we have shouldn't we be grieving that the plot was not successful. We should all be wearing black armbands on November 5th. This time of year really gets my goat with 

Halloween = Me want scaring

Bonfire Night = Me want entertaining

Christmas = Me want presents

If children and their parents were asked what are we actually celebrating or commemorating here,the reply would be #sniff "It's tradition ain't it". If it's not bad enough that Fido and Tiddles are quivering and shaking in fear at the Fireworks going off, what about the ex service personnel with diagnosed PTSD when a banger goes off or is stuffed through the letterbox. Just the reminder that they need a week before Remembrance Sunday. From a Property Millionaire who filmed a burning effigy of Grenfell Tower to the Black Face Controversy at Lewes Bonfire Festival  the mob mentality cannot seem to get it right. I will admit that there is a part of me that doesn't want people to have fun but I justify it by saying that I don't want people to have fun at others expense and unfortunately it does appear to be an innate part of our nature along with tribalism and sectarianism.