THE BRITISH INQUISITION

First it was tie pins and now it is bumper stickers.

Deputy Chief Fire Officer Eugene Johnson, of the Wiltshire and Swindon Fire Authority, removed a 3in by 2in sticker of the English flag from the bumper of a fire engine, claiming that it could be considered racist.

The sticker had been there for almost a year.

Mr Johnson said that the flag ‘had no place’ on the back of the vehicle.

Once again the usual cliches about this incident being ‘political correctness gone mad’ have been churned out.

To undermine any sense of English patriotism is the purpose of political correctness.