... in Victoria Park on Saturday, for fireworks night. A huge, beautiful wooden model of Westminster was constructed in the park, complete with Big Ben, spectacularly lit up. A giant Guy Fawkes appears to a hiphop soundtrack featuring snippets of speeches from politicians like Maggie "the lady's not for turning" Thatcher and Winston "We'll fight them on the beaches" Churchill.
Boo, hiss from the liberal Hackney/Tower Hamlets audience. In a radical re-writing of history that would only happen in this borough, Guy Fawkes succeeds in blowing up the Houses of Parliament - the towers and Big Ben burn away to reveal giant skeletons, fireworks shoot from the top of the clock tower, the whole vast edifice collapses in on itself to make the biggest bonfire you've ever seen, everyone's inner pyromaniac is revealed and we all cheer. Followed by a beautiful fireworks display. It was some show, and a staggering feat of engineering.
What I want to know is, how do I find a job like that?
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Guy Fawkes night is getting popular isn't it?
Men are giving up the bbq's for the fireworks!
I can't wait to have a Saturday night off to spend a few quid on fireworks!
I'm all for re-writing History as long as it's spectacular.
No Catholic Plots unearthed in this version then?
No photos Cream, I took some on my rubbish camera phone but can't download them - doh! Maybe Santa will bring me a camera...
Greavsi, I think chucking an effigy of the Pope onto the bonfire would have been a step too far even for Hackney.
Weird how in this day and age we spend lots of time and money commemorating a failed terrorist attack.
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