The No Standards Board This is insane. If your a Labour Mayor of London and you compare a jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard because they both get paid to do bad things the standards board for England wants to have you removed from office despite having the largest personal mandate in the country.

On the otherhand if you are a BNP councillor in Burnley and you go in for some domestic violence in from of the children followed by taking a swing at the law, getting banned from the local football ground and get convicted for a racially aggravated public order offence just to top it off. That apparently is you private life and you are fit to hold public office.

And here is the best bit Coun Turner, 44, of Athletic Street, Burnley, became a councillor in May 2003 and is a member of the community safety partnership steering group. They must have some interesting discussions like how to keep the community safe from the members of the steering group.

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