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Behind the Aegis

(53,963 posts)
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 04:29 PM Apr 2018

(Jewish Group) Tory candidate suspended over homophobic and antisemitic comments

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

23-year-old George Stoakley, a Conservative candidate for a South Cambridgeshire ward in the upcoming council election, discovered this recently when a series of his old antisemitic, homophobic and pro-gun tweets were discovered by eagle-eyed Twitter users.

He has since been suspended.

Not only did he joke about "sweating like a Jew in an attic", he also described AIDs as "weaponised semen" and used the term "faggot" as an insult.

Stoakley is just one of several Conservative political candidates whose campaigns have been derailed by their online presence.

A few weeks ago, Hillary Su - bidding to represent a ward which includes London's historic gay hub Soho - referenced Tim Farron's comments that gay sex is 'immoral' in a tweet which read: 'The right to private life, however immoral, is what free society offers - so long [as] it doesn't interfere with others or break laws'.



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(Jewish Group) Tory candidate suspended over homophobic and antisemitic comments (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Apr 2018 OP
Disgusting. He will now have no chance of winning. Doodley Apr 2018 #1
A typical Kinsey Gaffe for right-wingers sandensea Apr 2018 #2

sandensea

(21,642 posts)
2. A typical Kinsey Gaffe for right-wingers
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 04:36 PM
Apr 2018

Inadvertently sharing in public, what they constantly say in private.

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