Conservatives forced to act as Lib Dems expose Tory Councillor's Dover Cliffs Immigration Slur (Shepway Liberal Democrats)

Conservatives forced to act as Lib Dems expose Tory Councillor's Dover Cliffs Immigration Slur

November 7, 2006 11:16 AM

The Conservatives were yesterday forced to suspend a Conservative Councillor from the Party after Liberal Democrat campaigns chairman Edward Davey MP wrote to the Commission for Racial Equality, providing details of an offensive email sent from the Councillor's email account.

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.

"Despite David Cameron's best PR efforts, the Conservative Party clearly continues to contain some deeply unpleasant elements."

Shepway Liberal Democrats