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Tory councillor suspended over racist comments
A councillor in Leicestershire has been suspended for making
racist comments at a public meeting, a council has revealed.
Tory Robert Fraser was also reprimanded by Leicestershire County
Council's standards sub-committee and ordered to complete
"intensive"
training on equality.
The punishment came after Mr Fraser made derogatory comments about
Romanians at a public meeting and also said that some Europeans
"make the Irish look like complete amateurs".
The comments were witnessed by people at the public meeting in
January, and were also put on video website YouTube, the Leicester
Mercury reported on Thursday.
In a hearing on Tuesday, the sub-committee found that the
councillor behaved in a way which "could have" brought his
position, and the council, into disrepute.
The committee agreed to reprimand Mr Fraser for his comments and
suspend him for one month with immediate effect.
A spokeswoman said his allowances for that period have also been
withdrawn.
She said Mr Fraser is also required to attend further equality
training - he reportedly already attended some classes on the
instruction of the Conservative Party - and will have to pay the
first £250 of the cost of the course.
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Commented 20 weeks ago
Hes a bad critic, he shouldn't be discriminating other race. A lot of people are searching Google and other search engines to get the word Admonish defined for them. To sum up, to admonish is to rebuke, or reprimand, correct, or otherwise criticize someone for a wrong they have done. Apparently, hardly anyone knows the English language anymore – and they let just anyone have a degree of some kind. It's like an award for "Participant." Admonish being sought on do many online dictionary sites is proof positive that the world has started awarding mediocrity. Seriously – if private schools can teach people how to read, write, and vocabulary then public school teachers had better start bloody putting their hands up, and prove their worth all that extra time off. The rest of you – get payday loans and take a remedial English course if you didn't know the word admonish.