Guy Fawkes Night has been and gone, leaving a ‘trail' of burned property, burned skin and deficits in household budgets.

Why do we do it?

Why do we perpetuate the celebration of the Guy Fawkes execution?

An hour of flashing and banging and it's all over except for the burn victims.

It's my belief that Guy Fawkes has been secretly promoted by royalty and royalist supporters as an example to those who would attempt regicide (killing the monarch).

Those are still hanging offences in the statute books; two of them are regicide and treason.

In this day and age, I think we could do without this archaic re-enactment.

K Jones, Katikati.