U-turn over award for Cornish pub with swastika

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1. Common sense prevails, the right decision has been made, contrary to the opinion of society’s idiots.

2. CAMRA were morons for the original decision, but credit to them for their U-turn when the mistake came to light.

   Will the original decision maker be sanctioned in any way for their poor performance? Procedures updated? Lessons learned?

3. Surely it’d just be easier not to display nazi memorabilia? Probably take down the ‘golli toy’ too. There’s billions of other random and interesting curios you can display that won’t cause any controversy.

4. Yeah, having looked into this, this isn’t at all the same as the golliwog doll shit – it’s an item of legitimate historical interest, a war trophy (like [Minnesota’s Confederate battle flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Virginia_battle_flag)), and the landlord responded firmly but maturely instead of throwing a fit. I don’t think whoever complained was necessarily being malicious or overreacting, and I agree with the suggestion by someone further down that it might be prudent to add a small plaque contextualising it or something, but it seems like an error of judgement by CAMRA that they eventually managed to set right.

   >A spokesman for Camra Kernow said: “It’s very refreshing in the days of Partygate or the Post Office scandal for an organisation to get something wrong and very swiftly put it right.”

   LMAO, fair enough.