Sandy McNicol, from Flackwell Heath, says he is fed up that he won't be allowed to celebrate Christmas this year.

The 56-year-old director of Loudwater Tyres Company, in Queensmead Road, refuses to wish people a "Happy Holiday", and says it is political correctness gone mad.

I think we are becoming too politically correct in this country, to our own detriment. There are too many small pressure groups that seem to be getting their own way.

Take, for example, the Christmas Nativity plays. In many schools you can't have a traditional Nativity play anymore, in case you offend someone. You have to have multifaith plays instead.

Or if you go down the high street and look at the decorations, you can't call them Christmas lights anymore, you have to call them festive lights.

Telling jokes as well can get you into trouble now.

I think the situation is just going to get worse and worse, but when in Rome do as the Romans and when in Great Britain accept the way we do things or get out.

Maybe that's a bit harsh, but if you lived in Saudi and broke the rules you could get your hands chopped off, or be deported.

We are getting too soft.

I think the government is pandering to these small pressure groups.

We are trying to construct a new building around the corner and we are being forced to put in a disabled lift even in an industrial unit.

All new buildings now have to conform to the disability act, but if you have a disabled toilet and disabled access that ought to be enough.

I don't have a problem with any of these people but I think we are going too far trying to appease them.