Tories 'airbrushed' ethnic minority candidates from campaign leaflets

[Berberis]

Coupled with the overuse of the racist card by some, who for that matter are incapable of addressing direct questions about their reasoning for using such term, the Labour posse are increasingly desperate and inclined to make wild and silly accusations. This shows they have nothing to say and little in the way of ammunition against the Tory's. All they can do is make up stories or jump on unproven and silly accusations no real news agency would entertain.

 

I heard yesterday on BBC radio 4 that the last two times a Labour government went to the polls against a Tory opposition, the opinion polls of the time showed a smaller margin of difference between Labour and conservative support. The same person said he predicted a small conservative majority in the commons.

[Magilla]

Is this more prejudice? If someone disagrees with you, you label them a Tory. You seem to jump to a lot of conclusions about things.

 

I'm surprised you didn't get the ole racist badge for daring to engage your brain.

 

 

Yawnnnnnnnnnnn. Go and troll on another thread.

 

Lol, the irony!

[mj.scuba]

Seems Labour parliamentary candidates have been "airbrushing" a prominent Labour figure from their election campaign leaflets, their very own Gordon Brown. The Prime Minister does not appear in 93% of campaign leaflets.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/7543562/Gordon-Brown-ignored-by-nine-in-10-Labour-election-candidates.html

 

Does this make Labour racist against their prime minister?

[wednesday1]

Smarmy Dave's got his work cut out to keep the lid on this lot!

Talk about a leopard..........

 

2 Tories suspended for emailing racist joke

4 May 2010, 1505 hrs IST,PTI

LONDON: Two Conservative councillors in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, have been suspended from the party for circulating by email a racist joke about

immigrants from India and elsewhere, sparking criticism of the party two days before the May 6 poll.

 

Simon Farnsworth, a Ribble Valley councillor, sent the joke on to Ken Hind, his fellow councillor and a former Conservative parliamentary candidate in Selby and Lancashire West at the 1997 and 1992 elections.

 

Hind then sent it on to a long list of Conservative members.

 

When The Guardian drew the Conservative party's attention to the email, the two men were suspended.

 

Immigration has been a major issue in the elections, reflecting public concern over the numbers of immigrants entering the country in recent years, and the financial and other benefits they receive.

 

The joke runs as follows: A Somalian arrives in the UK as a new immigrant.

 

He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, "Thank you Mr UK man for letting me into this country, giving me housing, money for food, free medical care, free education and no taxes!" The passerby says, "You are mistaken, I am an Afghani [sic]!" The man goes on and encounters another passer by.

 

"Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in the UK!" The person says, "I not from the UK, I am Iraqi!" The new arrival walks further, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand and says, 'Thank you for the wonderful UK!' That person puts up his hand and says, "I am from Pakistan, I am not from the UK!" He finally sees a nice lady and asks, "Are you British?" She says, "No, I am from India!"

 

Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the British?" The Indian lady checks her watch and says: "Probably all at work."

 

The email ended with another joke: "IF YOU DON'T PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS YOU WILL RECEIVE 3 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ABSOLUTELY FREE."

 

A Tory spokesman said: "Simon Farnsworth and Ken Hind have been suspended from the Party. The contents of this email have no place in the Conservative party."