Parish 会議 (刑事)被告 of 手渡すing 居住(者)s newsletter 十分な of 人種差別主義者 jokes

District Councillor Peter McDonald with the Cofton Hackett parish newsletter

批判的な: 地区 議員 Peter McDonald with the 感情を害する/違反するing newsletter from Cofton Hackett parish 会議 in Worcestershire

A parish 会議 is under 調査 after it was (刑事)被告 of putting 人種差別主義者 jokes in a village newsletter.

One of its pages is peppered with bizarre gags which 居住(者)s in the sleepy Worcestershire village of Cofton Hackett say mock Dutch and Chinese people.

の中で the jokes are puns asking whether people from Holland should be called 穴を開けるs and whether spinning an 'oriental' person makes them disoriented.

All the jokes can be 設立する in the June newsletter of Cofton Hackett Parish 会議, which for the village's 1,747 居住(者)s also 含む/封じ込めるs いっそう少なく 議論の的になる 詳細(に述べる)s of public footpaths, a knitting group and a recipe for a fruit salad.

Now those behind the newsletter could 直面する disciplinary 活動/戦闘 or even 中断 from the parish 会議 after it was 手渡すd to the 基準s department of parent 当局 Bromsgrove 地区 会議, which has 開始する,打ち上げるd an 調査.

地区 議員 Peter McDonald, who 代表するs an area 含むing the village, said he had received (民事の)告訴s from several 居住(者)s 説 the jokes were sexist and 人種差別主義者.

He said: 'It is an 絶対の 乱暴/暴力を加える the taxpayer is 地盤 the 法案 for this 肉親,親類d of 構成要素. It's very childish and immature.

'I've had letters and phonecalls about it. It reads like something out of the Seventies - I thought we left 構成要素 like that behind now we are in the 21st century.

'I know the 監視するing officer on the 地区 会議 has been told about this and as I understand it, it's going before the 基準s 委員会.'

議員 Richard みなすing, the parish 会議 chairman, has been 軍隊d to make a grovelling 陳謝 to those 感情を害する/違反するd.

The 'jokes' on the Cofton Hackett newsletter

  • If you take an Oriental person and spin him 一連の会議、交渉/完成する several times, does he become disoriented?
  • If people from Poland are called 政治家s, why aren't people from Holland called 穴を開けるs? ?
  • I thought about how mothers 料金d their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
  • If the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the Jags and Tampa Bay Buccaneers known as the Bucs, what does that make the Tennessee 巨人s?

He 認める the taxpayer-基金d newsletter was not proofread before it went to 圧力(をかける).

'I will be apologising in the next 版. I didn't check this one unfortunately. It is 普通は proof-read - it's just we 港/避難所't got a clerk at the moment.

'It looks like they are taken from an old article from some time ago and some of them are funny, but others are a bit の近くに to the knuckle.

"The 会議 is not 人種差別主義者 or sexist and they shouldn't have gone in, the jokes were only to fill space.'

Cofton Hackett has rarely drawn attention to itself. It is most famous for the fact King Charles I stayed 夜通し there during the English Civil War, and for its former 軍の 航空機 factory.

選挙運動者s welcomed the fact that parishioners had complained.

青年 Against 人種差別主義 spokeswoman Naomi Byron said: 'It shows that 人種差別主義者 and sexist prejudices are not seen as 許容できる in Cofton Hackett.' ?

A 広報担当者 for Bromsgrove 地区 会議 said all parish 議員s were bound by a code of 行為/行う but 追加するd that he could not comment on 明確な/細部 (民事の)告訴s.

大きくする ? Jokes in Cofton Hackett parish newsletter

The chairman of the parish 会議 認める the newsletter was not proofread before it went to 圧力(をかける)


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