Fun with racism

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Tory suspended over racist e-mail

A Conservative parliamentary hopeful has been removed from the list of candidates and suspended from the party over the forwarding of a racist e-mail. The Illegal Immigrants Poem, sent from Wiltshire town councillor Ellenor Bland's e-mail address, jokes in a mock foreign voice about welfare claims. She has been suspended pending a full investigation by Conservative HQ.

Mrs Bland told the BBC it was her husband who had forwarded the e-mail, adding: “I’m not a racist.”

The poem in the forwarded e-mail, which is sent on from Mrs Bland's account with the message ”Oh yes! Ellie”, ends with a picture of the white cliffs of Dover and the words “piss off – we’re full”.

Mrs Bland said: “It was forwarded on by my husband, who took it in the form that he thought it was sent and that was a light-hearted view, which, again, anybody broadly thinking would not have made anything out of it, as has been made to be at this present time.” [She certainly talks like a sodding MP.]

She added that “apart from clocking my husband around the ears, there’s not a lot I can do about it”.

So it's just a harmless bit of fun. Who could possibly accuse “The Illegal Immigrants Poem” of being racist? Well, quite apart from anyone who reads it and has functioning synapses, the American author of the enticingly-titled “World O’ Crap” (says “the Web of Evil”) did some excellent homework about this very poem two years ago, and found it has a rich and varied history of being targeted at ethnic minorities, notably having been updated and disseminated some years ago by a member of the Stormfront White Nationalist Community.

Still, I'm sure the Blands do some terribly amusing impressions at dinner parties.

Comments

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the Blands do some terribly amusing impressions at dinner parties.

She's very convincing as Elizabeth Spriggs, certainly.

[nja.livejournal.com]

So what Mrs Bland is saying, is that she's not a racist but she does support domestic violence?

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

"A light-hearted view", eh? That poem is utterly vile - a neat glimpse into Cameron's caring Conservatives, there.

[i-jobot.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! Yes, when I read that story, I thought, "I don't want to transcribe HER ("anybody broadly thinking would not have made anything out of it, as has been made to be at this present time").

[alfaguru.livejournal.com]

Apparently "some of her best friends are asians" or words to that effect. I bet she has a full repertoire of lines beginning "I'm not a racialist, but...", too.

Why do racists always use the word "racialist"? Is it like a secret codeword or something?

[g0ldt00th.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a made up word to compound the stupidity of the statement. Similar to interwebs.