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Incredible though it may seem to those amongst us old enough to remember the Dads Army program from the seventies it has fallen foul of the online auction website EBay.
As reported in the Express: -
A family board game based on the classic TV comedy Dad’s Army has been banned from sale – because it has a swastika on the box.
It was removed from the internet auction site eBay and denounced as “offensive material” on the grounds that it could incite racial and religious hatred and promote violence.
The box features arrows containing swastikas and one bearing the Union flag, as seen in the opening titles of the TV programme.
The show, about a group of hapless Home Guard volunteers in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea, ran from 1968 to 1977 and proved so popular that it is still repeated today.
But despite its obviously family-friendly content, eBay stuck by its decision to ban the game, declaring: “We don’t allow the sale of memorabilia associated with the Nazi Party.” A baffled Mr Davidson said: “I couldn’t believe it when they sent me an email telling me my Dad’s Army board game could insight violence and hatred.
“Any human being with an ounce of common sense can see Dad’s Army is the most harmless TV programme in the world. There’s no swearing, sex or violence. It’s not like I’m trying to flog a piece of Nazi memorabilia here.
You mentioned an ounce of common sense Mr Davidson. That has been sacrificed upon the alter of political correctness.
This really is my favourite piece of political correctness gone mad that I have seen for many a day and provides a shameful example of just to what extent organisations are afraid of the different legal acts that they have to faultlessly obey lest they should offend anyone. This is an example of the nanny state so beloved of the Socialist Lib/Lab/Con party being extended into the commercial sector via legislation. Marxist Socialism is essentially about controlling society, not necessarily owning it.
