Mayor Of Swindon Apologises For ‘Mongols’ Comment
A Tory town mayor has been ordered to apologise after he called disabled people “mongols” during a council meeting about abuse they might face.
Two colleagues claimed Nick Martin, 62, asked them: “They aren’t still letting those mongols have sex with each other are they?”
They reported the “distasteful” remark to investigators, who concluded he had breached the members’ code of conduct and must apologise.
The mayor of Swindon, who has always denied making the remark six months ago, apologised yesterday. The comments were made while a council officer was making a presentation about issues faced by disabled adults in the borough, at a safeguarding adults meeting. The mayor was referred to the authority’s standards board and an independent officer’s report was drawn up and passed to an assessment panel which this week told him to apologise.
A statement from Swindon Council said: “The panel was satisfied that in order to resolve the matter at the earliest opportunity, a local resolution should be sought on the following terms: That councillor Martin makes an unreserved apology within seven days, accepting that he has breached the Members’ Code, and that this apology be made public; accepts further training from the council’s monitoring officer within the next 14 days; and that the findings of fact of the Independent Investigating Officer are made public.”
Mr Martin said he accepted the outcome. “I have apologised for using a word I shouldn’t have,” he added.”I will publicly apologise as I have been asked to.”
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ah I see further training after appoligising it seems modern Britain but then todays a strange day appoligising I wonder did those in the summer of 41 appoligise to their victims um jeff3
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I have for many years I believed that to become an elected Councillor part of the induction procedure should include a disability awareness training session . If we rely only on Council officers to conduct such an induction course it cannot become a reality. We (the disabled disenfranchised ) need a revolutionary group/body of disabled people to come together on the internet & pool their suggestions. I shall shortly be proposing such a venture to my trade union colleagues at Unite in Wales .Hopefully they can help me formulate a proposal to be placed before the Welsh TUC conference in Llundudno this May.
From little acorns mighty oaks can grow !
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I suspect that such comments by an elected Conservative mayor gives us a brief glimpse into a political party that, underneath Cameron’s polished public persona, seethes with racist, anti-disability along with a general loathing for the 95% of British people that did not have the benefit of an education at Eaton, Rugby or Harrow and then at either Cambridge or Oxford University.
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