Should Guy Fawkes Night come to an end?

[purplepoppy]

Guy Fawkes night is celebrated in the UK to mark a failed bomb plot in 1604. Here in Wales it's celebrated with toffee apples and roasting chestnuts on a bonfire while singing hymns. In Scotland and England it's about burning sofas in the street, flytipping, firebombing buses, shoving bangers up cats backsides and having a riot.

The celebration was largely brought in to whip up anti Catholic rhetoric and keep the hatred going. However the UK went through 30 years of bombings by the IRA leading many to question if celebrating one failed event hundreds of years ago was still appropriate.

Personally I think let it go. It's bang next to Halloween and many places are already merging the two combining fireworks and bonfires with ghosts and goblins.

Thoughts? Time to leave past in past?

[Sunrising]

The people from Wales are a bad influence on the UK.

Thank you for pointing this out to us. 🤣

[Sunrising]

If one tradition is stopped, then others will follow like Easter, and Christmas mainly from influences from immigration that don't support these celebrations.

[Sunrising]

Did you know there was a key connection in the blowing up of the Houses of Parliament from Wales?

[purplepoppy]

Fake news

[Sunrising]

History.

[purplepoppy]

I've just checked that, Huge Owens the spy. He was also involved in plotting the Spanish Amarda thing.

[Sunrising]

What are the people from Wales like?

[RandomGirl42]

I have no business in this question since I am on the other side of the pond but I'm just wondering is it really 'cuz of Guy Fawkes day or are they just using that as an excuse to raise mayhem? I mean, like if they cancelled it or whatever would people just find another holiday to terrorize?

[goaded]

Probably. Halloween is a US import (at least the trick or treating part). Banning private sales of fireworks would help, too, and improve the lives of pets.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732559

[purplepoppy]

I keep hearing it was a us import that started with the movie ET but it's not hard to find accounts of kids going door to door that are much older

[goaded]

It wasn't a thing when I was small, at least not out in the sticks where I lived.

[AviatorTom]

Any reason to celebrate is usually good, but if it's getting destructive, maybe it's time to at least tone it down a bit.

[exitseven]

I think Great Britain needs to find a new folk hero to combat the anti British sentiment that is going on in the present time,.

[stratford]

For the sake off all the animals who are traumatised by it, yes.

[stratford]

Of not off ffs.

[FunkyMonkee]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/R6jS-xsViNw

Mr. Guy Fawkes

[Anonymous]

Problem is people want the chaos aimed at Starmer but the majority couldn't organise a piss-up in a pub with the taps turned on and the cellar flooded

They need leadership like Castro and Che to get it done

[Shiprex]

Nope. It's a reminder to wannabe dictators or oligarchs tgat people ARE the power.

[Texaskid1]

Sounds like fun.

I say keep it.