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Stephen Tall

Reading Labour Party leaflet’s “born and bred” racist innuendo: will Labour now apologise and withdraw it?

By Stephen Tall | Sat 7th April 2012 - 12:45 pm

This is the leaflet the Labour Party is delivering through letter-boxes in a ward where the sitting Conservative councillor — Cllr Azam Janjua, a Reading resident for half a century — is facing a Labour opponent, Eileen McElligott. See if you can notice the oh-so-subtle way in which Labour puts its lips together to dog-whistle:

You read that right:

“Eileen McElligott … was born and bred in Reading … She will fight for us here … because she is one of us.”

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