"But Richard Gravett, chairman of Firle Bonfire Society, said: 'There was no racist slant towards anyone from the Travelling community. If anything, it's actually completely the other way.
'It is to try to make people sit up and listen and realise that these people obviously - as all of us do - need somewhere to live.'"
Right. I actually saw a report on this on ITV and some guy from the bonfire claimed that the negative sentiments were actually directed at the local council. If that was the real case, then why not burn the council members in effigy? Dummy.