A TORY MP has vowed to wage war on political correctness.

Philip Davies - a former Tory candidate in Colne Valley - said he believed the public would soon have enough of "silliness".

He gave the example of a Somerset museum which took BC (Before Christ) labels off exhibits for fear of causing offence.

Mr Davies, 33, elected as Shipley MP this year, said: "Examples like this happen all the time and we'd like to try and make people aware of it so they can fight back."

He said he was considering inviting a delegation from New Zealand's right-wing National Party, which appointed a PC eradicator.

Mr Davies said: "There will come a point, and I think we're very near that point now, where the silent majority, the bulk of decent people say I've had enough of this and we're going to start rolling back the tide and I want to play my part in rolling back that tide."

Mr Davies stood in the Colne Valley at the 2001 General Election, coming second to Labour MP Kali Mountford.

He graduated from Huddersfield University with a degree in historical and political studies.

Earlier this week, the Bishop of Salford criticised political correctness and called on Christians not to be embarrassed of their Christmas celebrations.

Bishop Terence Brain said any attempts to rebrand the Christian festival to make it fairer to people of other faiths would result in a "non-cultural" society.

The Roman Catholic bishop said: "If we lose our roots, cultural or religious, we are the poorer for it. To be truly multicultural means that as a society we have found a way of enabling all parts of the community to express themselves culturally and religiously.

"So we should be encouraging the Christian Christmas to be expressed among us rather than getting embarrassed by it.

"Calling the celebration at Christmas Winterval, or some such name, is proposed with the argument that it is fairer to everyone not to focus on the specifically Christian event of the birth of Christ, since so many in our communities are not Christian.

"So cribs disappear - even Father Christmas can be banned. If we follow that to its logical conclusion we end up with no celebration of any sort that has specific meaning to only a section of the general community.

"So we have no Christmas, no Hanukah, no Diwali, no Solstice, nothing.

"We end up not being multicultural but non-cultural."

And the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton, said the public expression of the Christian faith and other religions was being undermined by political correctness.

This month a Derby schoolgirl was sent home after she refused to remove her crucifix necklace.

"I think there is a view around that practising Christianity and all the symbols that go with it embarrasses people of other faiths and of course that's nonsense," said Lord Carey.