This is insane
A POLITICALLY correct council has sparked fury by axing Guy Fawkes from its annual Bonfire Night party — and replacing him with a BENGAL TIGER.
Officials in Tower Hamlets, East London, say the 400-year-old English story of the Gunpowder Plot is now old hat.
There will be NO traditional bonfire and NO Guy.
Instead the centrepiece of Sunday’s £75,000 celebration in Victoria Park will be a Bengali folk tale called the Emperor and the Tiger.
A mock Bengal Tiger will pace a giant catwalk as fire lights up a forest to the sound of Bangla drummers and dancers.
The borough has a large Asian population, but John Midgley, spokesman for the Campaign Against Political Correctness, said: “There’s a time and a place for everything and November 5 is for Bonfire Night.
“It’s time to tell bureaucrats that actions like these undermine our historic occasions and harm community relations.”
Tory councillor Tim Archer said: “Bonfire Night is a celebration of our rich and proud history. It’s being air-brushed out with an attempt to be politically correct.”
Even potty local MP George Galloway agreed. The Respect party leader, shamed for fawning to Saddam Hussein, said: “Guy Fawkes was one of the few men to enter Parliament with good intentions.
“It beggars belief that this council should organise a Bonfire Night without a bonfire or a Guy.”
Last year, 23,000 people flocked to the park to watch a huge model of Parliament burn to mark the 400th anniversary of the plot.
Labour-run Tower Hamlets council insisted they had not forgotten the Gunpowder Plot but had decided to try different themes.
A spokeswoman said: “This differentiates our celebrations from other boroughs and our events are proving to be extremely popular.
“Our sole aim is to stage an exciting event on the traditional Fireworks Night that will attract as many people as possible.
“Let’s judge the event by how much people enjoy themselves on the night.”
A YOUNG child and a man were taken to hospital with burns after thugs threw a firework on to a bus in Dagenham, East London.
A history lesson 
History ... Fawkes, circled, and his fellow conspirators
DUMMIES of Guy Fawkes are burned every November 5 to commemorate The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed attempt by a group of English Catholics to blow up King James I and much of the Protestant aristocracy.
Fawkes and his fellow conspirators smuggled barrels of gunpowder into a chamber beneath the House of Lords. But their plan was foiled by a tip-off and the gang was arrested, tortured and executed.
