Comments on: Tory councillor suspended over “foreign names” slur

By: Martin Land

Martin Land — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:41:30 +0000

I just remind people that to my Celtic ancestors, Smith was a very strange foreign sounding name…

Herbert Brown — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:54:32 +0000

If only I hadn’t heard similar comments while stuffing target letters … !

John Ault — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:13 +0000

It makes you wonder if he realises that ‘Cameron’ is not a ‘normal’ English name, being Scottish!

Duncan Borrowman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:30:38 +0000

Hobbins has now quit the Tories.
Pink Dog would be shocked at that suggestion Paul. He is an innocent little pup.

Paul Walter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:26:30 +0000

A very warm welcome to this new LDV author! Presumably we could even be seeing LDV puppies if there is any communing with Pink Dog.