Good Golly.

[gulliver1]

Five Police officers were sent to a Family owned Pub in Essex to seize a collection of Golliwog Dolls after an anonymous complaint.
Just forget about tackling anti-social behaviour ,violence and rapes against women and young girls ,Burglary, and catching criminals.
.......................................Unbelievable...................................

[brainiac]

I've still got a few enamel golliwog badges collected through Robertson's Jam. Should I be fearing a raid sometime soon?

[davebro]

Miss Molly !

[douglas9401]

At the very least the complainer should be named, in the interest of balance.
Otherwise one might think they don't exist and some senior polis has issues.

[davebro]

How can they be named if they are anonymous?

[royfromaus]

Crickey, how many coppers did it take to arrest those Gollies?

Is it cos they is black?

[douglas9401]

That would depend on whether they were actually unknown or just not made public, davebro.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/anonymous

[sp1814]

It doesn't appear to be solely about golliwogs. They in themselves are not prohibited.

These are the things he tweets.

You can imagine how he treats non-white customers.

My bet is that it wasn't simply the dolls that prompted the police involvement:

https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1645366110689144833?s=61&t=BpJurOFO11EC9Er9fN1b0Q

[Peter Pedant]

oh come on Gully
or good golly gully
at least they didnt rape anyone
eer no not the golliwogs

[brainiac]

Not the brightest - he thinks Rishi Sunak is a Muslim

[royfromaus]

That's not a tweet, sp


https://www.facebook.com/christopher.ryley.1

[gulliver1]

Even Braverman has condemned this act .
Wonder who advised her ?.

[davebro]

are white (eg) cabbage patch dolls racist?

[royfromaus]

There are black cabbage patch kids.

[Prudie]

I had a golly as a child called blackentopper. I had no inkling that it represented a person of a colour (is that the right term currently??). It was just a stuffed toy with stripy trousers and black hair to me.

[MissTerious2]

I was terrified of golliwogs as a young child, apparently a child with a golly mask peeped around my pushchair hood when I was about 14months old. I've hated them ever since.

[Zacs-Master]

‘ It was just a stuffed toy with stripy trousers and black hair to me’

But can you appreciate the standpoint that it might mean more to a person from the race a gollywog might be representing.

[Prudie]

I can now, I wouldn't give one houseroom :-)

[Zacs-Master]

Fair enough.

[Old_Geezer]

Bloody stupid. Someone should look into the IQ levels of the cops at that station as they seem below the minimum required for someone employed to uphold the law.

[douglas9401]

Come on now, it's not like it's an image of Mohammed and sundry screaming adherents are about to descend and slaughter.

It's a doll. Any offence is self-generated.