Quote by GnV
As star said earlier, why do the UK public persist in celebrating a terrorist act against the British Parliament and the Monarch of the time after having spent so much celebrating a Diamond Jubilee of the present monarch?
This must be most confusing to many.
I think the celebration is the failure of the plot. It's Guy on the bonfire, not King James.
Where do the fireworks come in then?
The event is indeed a celebration of the discovery and subsequent failure of a terrorist plot.
The fireworks are traditionally viewed as a taunt. Had the plot succeeded there would have been a huge explosion. The fireworks represent the explosion of the gunpowder and are effectively a case of saying 'we can do it, but you can't'.