We read:
"A popular children's TV puppet show starring Basil Brush has been accused of racially abusing gypsies.
British police have launched an investigation into claims that an episode of the Basil Brush Show that screened on the BBC was racially offensive because it showed a gypsy woman trying to sell the puppet fox wooden pegs and a bunch of heather.
"This sort of thing happens quite regularly and we are fed up with making complaints about stereotypical comments about us in words that we find racist or offensive," Joseph Jones, vice-chairman of the Southern England Romany Gipsy and Irish Traveller Network, told the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
"Travellers have historically sold heather and pegs, but they don't do it anymore for a living.
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I guess that all allusions to the past are suspect, then. Leftists would like that. History is a major inconvenience for them.
