Roberta, they were from people closely associated with you. As was the "Did" reference. It was you I heard promulgating racist BNP policy, in the Marquee, last September. You may remember I walked off, uttering words of distaste.

Sue, since you have seen what the BNP can do with coded references to you and distortion of your pictorial image, I am surprised that the banning of FaF banners on the gate or in the marquee was carried nem. con. - and I also do not understand why if the Folkmob no longer carries any cost of the event (which I think is true) that decision is up to Folkmob.

I note however that you have not indicated a Folkmob (if that be the touchstone) bar on FaF caravan banners or t-shirts, so that may well be a reasonable compromise, if one wishes to sup with the devil. I can live with that.

Yes, a pleasant dinner party atmosphere would be nice. But what do you do with the guest who craps in the soup - or the guest who points it out? If at your dinner party a guest called another "a Did" (or a Yid) would you not ask him to leave? What would you do with the intervening guest who said that such things were not appropriate? Ask them not to rock the boat? This is of course hypothetical if my reading above is correct, but may come to be an issue in the future. We know what is done if someone drinks too much cider and then strips off in another guest's bedroom. We know waht is done to a freeloader who occupies another's tent, too.

I hope we can extrapolate.