Golliwogs!

Further article on the Carol Thatcher row, see the web site www. telegraph.co.uk/comment/columist/jennymccartney 4549595 golliwogs.

Well worth a read!   I think we should also ask the question, is England becoming a Police State by are present Government with the help of the PC brigade?

Hello everyone, I was reading the Golliwog posts with interest and want to add my bit to it. I am working for the New South Wales Government Child Protection Department and in my office most of us have toys on our window sills etc and I happened to bring in a 5" high little gollwog and placed him at the back of my computer in a corner.  We have quite a lot of Aboriginal folk working here and very sensitive they are to any slurs etc but little did I know how bad they had become over this.  I was sick for 4 days and on the 3rd day my section boss rang me at home and told me that the 'item' I had on my desk was now inside my top drawer and I was to take it home and no longer bring it to the office!  I asked who had been concentrating on the contents of my desk and I  was cut off and told that she no longer wished to see the object (couldn't bring herself to name it, poor soul) at work or there would be some serious problems for me.  Whoa!!  the world has gone bloody mad hasn't it? I was born in Brighton, had gollys as a child and at my home here in Oz my brother and I pounce on any we find at second hand shops, have bought them on the Internet and proudly place them on a shelf in the computer room.  I tried to explain the history of the Golly which stems from a woman in Holland who wrote a story for her daughter and named it the "GollyWag" which was a hairy dark creature that scared children. No, I was being very racist and had better pull my head in or else!!  It was an Aboriginal person who complained, someone who does not have a formal education, got the job because he was Aboriginal and gets paid the same as those who flog themselves at university to get in to a govvy job.  I won't go on, it sickens me.

Hi Jenny, I don't think you have introduced yourself in the forum yet have you, and respectfully suggest you do just that for a welcome second to none from the family! I agree with your comments and how you feel, the PC brigade are ruling and ruining our very roots. As you say the world has gone b....y mad!

MichaeI: I agree with your thoughts and comments also Michael and hope that Jenny is able to take this matter further.

Hello to all who have made there views on this issue. For your interest the Robinson enamel badges are very collectable. There were so many different Golliwog charactors made, e.g a footballer, cricketer, policeman ,fireman, doctor, to name just a few. My point being is, that on the eBay site you can obtain many of these enamel badges. So although Robinsons Jam makers were told to stop making them some time ago due to the PC brigade, they are still very popular collectables to this today.

In my opinion I do not think Carol Thatcher should needed to have been sacked by the BBC. She made the comment off air, describing the tennis player Jo-wilfriend Tsanga, by making the comment of his Style of hair in the Australian Open Tennis Tournament. If this comment deserved the sack, then yes, things have gone completly over the top, and common sense should have prevailed. The BBC should stop this nonsense, and stop making out Carol Thatchers a racist.There the ones who should apologise for over reacting.

hi everyone,

Ithin Golywogs are lovely and I don't understand why anyone could be offended by them.

I have bought both my grandchldren one and they love them

ThePC lot drive me daft and I now ignore them and say what I want and if anyone tells meI'm doing wrong then I askthem to explain in detail what they see as not being right .And their explanations need to be good!

Don't get me wrong I don't goaboutbeing deliberatly offensive ,I'm not that type of person,I am a respecter of all.I will not be dictated to by those who do not have a clue about life and its experiences.

Just to finish on -hurry up and clear off GORMLESS GORDON et al.