That’s what she is saying and good for her.
The landlady of a pub whose collection of golliwog dolls was confiscated by police has assembled replacements, which she plans to display in defiance of a continuing investigation.
Last week four Essex police officers and a trainee seized all the dolls on show in the White Hart Inn in Grays as part of an investigation into an alleged hate crime.
The dolls divide opinion in Grays. On Tuesday some pub regulars turned up to show support, but others expressed their fury. The pub’s landlady, Benice Ryley, 62, refuses to accept they are racist.
Clutching an armful of the dolls, including three that have been donated by supporters, she said: “I’m going to put them back.”
This show of defiance is exactly what is needed. Meanwhile, the gollies in custody are refusing to speak to the pigs without a brief being present. Also being black and in police custody, they are worried about not making it out alive.
Good.
The idea of hate crime and such is a travesty.
Get rid of it and tell the lazy fucking “police” to go and actually enforce the law somewhere. Like northern Ireland where people are throwing petrol bombs.
A far greater crime is “Sorry for no golly’s”. That is a hate crime against pendants everywhere.
Indeed. That apostrophe get’s everywhere…
Sorry if I’ve mentioned this before but it still tickles me: there was a wonderful little programme on R4 some years ago about a guy in Bristol who’s so incensed about apostrophes that he goes to great lengths to remove/add/replace them on business signs, in the middle of the night.
I sat at my hairdresser’s salon for months before I could keep my mouth shut no longer and had to point out the superfluous apostrophe on ‘it’s’ canopy.
“Hate crime” = “thought crime”
Being white = “face crime”
As far as I am aware, these are basically the only two laws on nightmarestrip one. They are the only two needed as it is pretty well impossible not to break one or the other.
All hail big sister!
I see ‘critics’ (read: race-baiting scum) have found some old Facebook comments made by the publican, in which he expressed such verboten attitudes as ‘White Lives Matter’ and ‘When is White History Month?’
The desperation is palpable now. He’s winning and they can’t stand it.
Tomato?
Brown sauce?
?
If these numpties win, someone is going to want “Good Golly Miss Molly” changed to something more wokish.
Normally I would rush to support the police but this time they have definitely jumped the shark. It will be interesting to see what the police’s next move will be. From experience I know the senior officers hate to lose face and they probably think they are in the right. Political correctness has exploded in my job.
I find the use of language in the report interesting: people show support or express fury. Fury? There seems to be nothing in between, or the journalist’s vocabulary is poor…
looks like plod are determined to get a face saving conviction by trawling through the landlords facebook posts and any other social media until they find something. per the horrible guardian -https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/13/essex-police-investigating-golliwog-pub-display-examine-landlord-lynching-post
anyone who’s had dealings with the police knew that they wouldn’t take the embarrassment lying down. No wonder peoples trust in the police is low and falling.
It’s got a fair way to go yet, but Essex Police are just the right farce to see it bottom out for good!
They are now investigating the landlord for his Facebook comments too: “Sunder Katwala, the director of the integration thinktank British Future, said: “It is important that police can do their job. These Facebook posts are important because they suggest the intent of displaying the golliwogs is to depict a lynching, or hanging, which takes us into much stronger territory of harassment and racially aggravated hate crime than the impression some people have that they were just teddy bears and golliwogs sitting on a shelf.”
He added: “Saying this is just a joke is clearly intended to be quite aggressive and intimidatory. It isn’t the sort of joke that the council or the police should allow in a pub.””
I don’t remember giving the police or council authority to determine what jokes were appropriate in a pub, does anyone else?
I’m sure they’d have a thing or two to say if they started up with some of the more obscene paedophile or rape jokes.
Sunder Katwala:
“These Facebook posts are important because they suggest the intent of displaying the golliwogs is to depict a lynching, or hanging…”
You can tell he’s got nothing when he has to resort to just making stuff up.