Ed Davey has today written to the Commission for Racial Equality providing details of an offensive email sent by a Conservative councillor and parliamentary candidate.
Ed has also written to David Cameron and Francis Maude calling for the Conservatives to take swift and decisive disciplinary action.
The email – which contains an inflammatory ‘poem’ that features on a white supremacist website, as well as a picture of the white cliffs of Dover with the words ‘piss off – we’re full’ on them – was sent by Conservative councillor Ellenor Bland to other Conservative councillors and party members.
Liberal Democrat Chair of Campaigns and Communications, Edward Davey MP, said:
“It is totally unacceptable for elected representatives to be distributing this kind of material. Racism has absolutely no place in British politics and I am asking the CRE to advise on what further action can be taken.
“If David Cameron wants to retain any credibility he must immediately take the strongest action against the person responsible.
“Despite David Cameron’s best PR efforts, the Conservative Party clearly continues to contain some deeply unpleasant elements.”
Update: The BBC is reporting that Cllr Bland, who was the Tories’ candidate in Swansea East last year, has been suspended from their list of approved parliamentary candidates.
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Hav,nt you got better trhings to do? perhaps not
Better things to do than highlight racism? Well doesn’t that just say it all.
Well Johnboy it looks like the Tories “Hav,nt …got better trhings to do” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6121646.stm
Well done Ed
There’s more on the party’s website at:
http://www.libdems.org.uk/news/leading-conservative-referred-to-racism-watchdog-by-liberal-democrats.html
Are the Lib Dems whiter than white? Lib Dem councillors have, in the past, been convicted of sex offences, of downloading child pornography, and in a recent case a Lib Dem councillor was jailed for battering his wife. Not to mention the indiscretions of Mr Kennedy, Mr Oaten, and Mr Hughes. Does this make the Lib Dems a party of sex offenders, paedophiles, wife-beaters, alcoholics and liars?
My only vice is Terry’s chocolate orange
And how many black or asian MPs do the Lib Dems have????
And how many would they have under a fair voting system? 23% of the vote would deliver 148 seats under a non-fraudulent system. Plenty of those would be black or asian.
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