Saw one yesterday outside Lidls, with three small boys.

No point in rerunning the troubles of the "reformation" over again here - too many butchered dead on both sides. Lewes celebrations have a pretty nasty aspect to them, but my feeling is the best way is to encourage people treat it as a bizarre joke rather than confront it straight on. Anti-Catholic prejudice isn't right now the same kind of threat in England as it is in Northern Ireland or Scotland.   

A lot of our folk traditions probably have some pretty unsavoury aspects if you dug back into their history, but time can often leach out that stuff. It's rather like the way time can change a pretty unsavoury dead body into a fascinating and even beautiful fossil.