A MIDDLE-AGED man has admitted he is reduced to tears when there are threats to take his beloved golliwog away.

55-year-old Wayne Hayes of Colchester loves his golly from when he was a child, for sentimental reasons, and because he is a proud and free Englishman and anyway there is nothing racist about it.

He said: “He’s always been there for me. On my pillow, on my marmalade, reminding me of the innocence of my bigotry. Comforting me when there’s a mixed-race couple on an advert.

“But just because black people have found it horrendously offensive for decades, suddenly I can’t have my golly any more? That’s not fair, and conveniently makes me the victim.

“What people don’t understand is that if I suffer in any way – hearing a language I don’t understand, names I can’t pronounce, even t

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