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Racism row Tory councillor: local paper asks ‘should she go?’

By the founding editor | Fri 10th November 2006 - 10:07 pm

Calne town councillor Ellie Bland, who has been suspended from the Tory party for sending a racist email, is the subject of a poll on her local paper’s website.

At the bottom of the editor’s choice column they ask “Should Ellie Bland resign as a councillor over the racist e-mail joke she sent her council colleagues?”

Current figures are YES 59%, NO 41%. Lib Dem Voice readers who live in the area should make their view known.

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Conservative referred to racism watchdog by Liberal Democrats

By the founding editor | Mon 6th November 2006 - 2:24 pm

David Cameron 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 …