The election is providing no shortage of time-lapse gaffes, where online activity of some vintage has come back to haunt candidates and activists alike. It’s no surprise that Stuart Penketh, the Conservative candidate for Ellesmere Port and Neston, tried to delete his Grey Funnel Line blog.
When not describing third-world debt relief as “letting tyrants off the hook”, it seemed Penketh used his blog to sling around racist insults. Likening the town of Radcliffe in Greater Manchester to war-torn Vietnam, Penketh uses the word “gook”, a derogatory term for South-East Asians:
“Why when I walk through Radcliffe town centre (what’s left of it), past the canal do I feel a Gook is gonna sniper me [sic]” – Stuart Penketh
The internet, as they say, is for life not just for Christmas and sadly for Penketh the offensive remark is still visible in Google’s cache.
John McCain took less than 24 hours to issue a grovelling apology to the Vietnamese community for referring to his wartime captors as “gooks”, a term he described as “bigoted and offensive”.
Let’s see how long Stuart takes.
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Sadly all too typical of the younger generation of wide boy Conservatives. What ever happened to Harold MacMillan’s party?
John McCain is also a very good politician. he did not win because the people are not satisfied on the Republicans.’`-
Sadly all too typical of the younger generation of wide boy Conservatives. What ever happened to Harold MacMillan’s party?
Sadly all too typical of the younger generation of wide boy Conservatives. What ever happened to Harold MacMillan’s party
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