Basil Brush being investigated by Police for Racism - is this scary or funny?

[Don_Kiddick]

Puppet show racism claim

Police are investigating a complaint of racism against a TV programme featuring Basil Brush.

 

A traveller reported an episode of the Basil Brush Show which showed a gipsy woman trying to sell the puppet heather and wooden pegs.

 

The programme featuring the children's favourite was a repeat and broadcast on digital channel CBBC. The complaint was made to Northamptonshire Police.

 

 

http://www.teletext.co.uk/news/national/bfb8b1d5098246846c3a84adf9a7fa44/Puppet+show+racism+claim.aspx

[Don_Kiddick]

Crackers!

[melthebell]

And I Hope He Gets "done" In The Showers

[Swan_Vesta]

How very entertaining. A puppet being investigated for the alleged racial abuse of gypsies ..... Ok, right. How exactly? The amount of gypsies I have seen selling lucky heather or pegs is beyond belief - Surely it's a representation of actual events.

 

Or would they rather be portrayed as a bunch of caravan dwelling, thieving, violent, bare knuckle boxing, Tony Martin robbing, tax dodging, dole claiming scummers?

 

Who cares? Both would be accurate representations. More foolishness:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91248-1309489,00.html

[*_ash_*]

It will cause trouble if it goes to court.

 

Someone will have to carry the sofa that he sits on, otherwise kids might be traumatised when they discover there is a man behind it, with his fist up a foxs a***

[Don_Kiddick]

Can the thread title be changed to Basil's Brush with the Pikeys?

[The_DADDY (2)]

Joseph Jones, vice-chairman of the Southern England Romany, Gypsy and Irish Traveller Network compared the programme to the Black and White Minstrel Show.

 

He told the Mail on Sunday: "This sort of thing happens quite regularly and we are fed up with making complaints about stereotypical comments about us in words that we find racist or offensive.

 

"Racist abuse of black people is quite rightly no longer deemed acceptable,but when a comedian makes a joke on TV about pikeys or *****, there's no comeback."

Thats because most of them are theiving, scummy, dirty ignorant, ill educated, retarded, violent, shoddy drive laying, hairy, smelly, ugly, inbred gimps.

Seems obvious to me,

[*Peaches*]

absolutely bonkers...

[*_ash_*]

Thats because most of them are theiving, scummy, dirty ignorant, ill educated, retarded, violent, shoddy drive laying, hairy, smelly, ugly, inbred gimps.

Seems obvious to me,

 

I can't believe I just scrolled up the thread to see which forummer was called Moron. :hihi:

[Mathom]

If he gets banged to rights then we can have Rommel <--------- instead to entertain the kiddies. They might not the mangled ear that the cat ate and the hole in his side where some mice tried to nest in him though...and I for one am certainly NOT going to dare shove a hand up his arris.

 

Anyway. Who's next? Papa Lazarou?