In response to renaming the dog in Dambusters:
Mervyn Hallam, curator of RAF Scampton museum, today slammed the change and accused Fry of trying to ‘rewrite history’.
He said: ‘It’s not a problem with coloured people it’s the people in power creating the problem. Sod their political correctness and sod human rights.
‘They should keep the dog’s name the same – it’s ridiculous that they are trying to rewrite history. His grave is still here with his name on it.
‘What they are trying to do is dishonouring ****** and dishonouring the brave men who flew that mission.
‘We have over 9,000 visitors a year at RAF Scampton and many of them are not native to England but none of them are offended.
‘****** is the name of the dog and that shouldn’t be interfered with. In the context of the time and the film it’s not a racist name.’
So there you go. It's only an unacceptable word for Super Mikey and Super Thorpie.