The 1980`s television cartoon The Wind in the Willows is to be banned from next month due to complaints from Anti Racist campaigners. The Wind in the Willows was originally written by Kenneth Grahame and was first published in 1908, it was turned into a television series in 1984 and featured David Jason and Michael Horden, but Anti Fascist campaigners have condemned the series as racist.
The series featured a group of weasels who were dressed up as Gypsies in bandannas and ear rings. The weasels would frequently rob and steal from people and engage in acts of criminality. Anti Fascist campaigners and members of the Gypsy community claimed that the television series went too far when the weasels turned up at a pensioners house and carried out a tarmac job and then charged ten thousand pounds for a thin layering of tarmac.
Paddy Doherty from Salford`s "travelling" community stated that the ban was good news as the television programme was portraying Gypsies and travellers in a negative manner as being thieves and robbers. Paddy also stated that the programme was poisoning the minds of children. One occupy protester stated that there was a scene where the weasels claimed squatters rights over a Badger burrow, this was an indirect insult at the occupy and squatters movement. The programme is due to banned starting from next month.
Above Paddy Doherty.
