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SALFORD LABOUR COUNCILLOR TO BE INVESTIGATED OVER ‘TORY PIGS’ COMMENT
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Star date: 21st February 2020 TORIES PUT IN FORMAL COMPLAINT AGAINST COUNCILLOR MIKE MCCUSKER Senior Labour Councillor, Mike McCusker, is in hot water over a 'Tory pigs' comment posted on social media. Salford Conservative Leader Councillor Les Turner told the Salford Star that the party has put in a formal complaint... "In my 14 years on the Council I can't remember any Labour councillor addressing the opposition in that way, certainly not on a public forum" he said. Full details here...
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The Salford Conservatives have put in a formal complaint against senior Labour Councillor, Mike McCusker, who is also Executive Support for Planning, Housing and Sustainable Development, following a comment on Facebook about 'Tory pigs' The comment was posted in response to a post about the Tories advertising for candidates to stand in the upcoming local election... "Not enough Tory pigs this year" McCusker wrote "They appear to be begging any Tory pig on the farm to help out..." The comment was removed but the Salford Conservatives are taking it further and have made a formal complaint to the Council's Monitoring Officer, Miranda Carruthers Watt... "It's not the language you would expect from a senior member of the Labour Party" Conservative Leader, Councillor Les Turner tells the Salford Star "In my 14 years on the Council I can't remember any Labour councillor addressing the opposition in that way, certainly not on a public forum, although they might do it behind your back! "My members are incredibly upset about it, especially the Jewish ones; is that how they think of any of our supporters?" he adds "It's left a very nasty taste for Wednesday's [budget] meeting, having to share a forum with someone who thinks like that and actually says it. I don't want to see that sort of language..." The Salford Star has contacted Councillor McCusker for a comment and he hasn't yet responded - although in his defence, the comment was made in the context of someone posting 'In Salford a pig sporting a red rose will be elected'...
In the screenshot the person's name who Councillor McCusker was addressing has been removed.
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 19:42:35 on 26 February 2020 |
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| Synthetic outrage from faux Salford Tories - a party wìthout policies,ideas or a future! |
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The Vindicator wrote
at 14:02:51 on 24 February 2020 |
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| I think councillor MCusker's remarks were alluding to George Orwell's " Animal Farm" and the fact that the pigs take over the running of it. It seems most commentators on here have taken it literally as has the Tory councillor. Any shade of subltety especially on social media, ( I'm afraid I'll have to include this page Steve) is invariably lost. Of course I could be wrong ! |
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Bernard Brough wrote
at 10:59:47 on 24 February 2020 |
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| If I was a pig I would be highly offended by these remarks. |
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Bob the regular wrote
at 07:47:32 on 24 February 2020 |
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| There are 2 things I have tried to understand but cannot. One is American football, the other,Irish politics.For Cllr Mccusker to comment on Irish political things, it indicates to me he must have some sort of understanding of them. I would have thought such intellectual reasoning would have been way beyond our Labour councillors, most of them do dot have a clue about British political reasoning beyond having a pathological in bred hatred of the Torys. |
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wrote
at 07:47:01 on 24 February 2020 |
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| Anyone who thinks Salford Conservatives are going to support Felse as Mayoral Candidate just ask the Salford Conservatives...............WE ARE NOT!! Its all lies spread by the deluded man himself! |
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wrote
at 15:30:07 on 23 February 2020 |
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| The way I see it the man has done Felsey a favour. No way can the Tories pick anyone but Felsey in the Mayor election after this stuff has kicked off. PeppaPigFelsey rosettes in blue all round. |
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wrote
at 12:16:07 on 23 February 2020 |
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| I am a Tory offended by the remark. Time we put a stop to this sort of thing. On Wednesday the whole Tory group should walk out in protest. Let the word be Salford will not tolerate this sort of language any more. If we all stay quiet then things can never get better. Stop insults and that also goes for certain others on here. |
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wrote
at 12:15:52 on 23 February 2020 |
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| It is hard to understand why someone would call others pigs. It has long been seen an insult by the Jewish community. Possibly made without thinking. It has made others Incredibly upset says the Conservative leader especially their Jewish supporters. Can a simple sorry make amends. Offending your opponents seems rife these days and as the election gains pace may get worse. It takes a hard person to get into today’s political arena. Does the use of insults in politics reflect the reality of society gone wrong? |
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wrote
at 06:05:31 on 23 February 2020 |
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| Im not red I’m blue but I still think Felse is a sanctimonious tosser |
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Bob the regular wrote
at 06:05:15 on 23 February 2020 |
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| When I met Felsey years ago, I was told by him that he was a former Yogsheer miner. Down them yogsheer pits, I imagine They used to refer to members of the conservative party in far worse terms than calling them pigs. The Agecroft miners used to. |
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wrote
at 06:04:15 on 23 February 2020 |
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| felse degraded himself by his disgusting attempt at conflating pigs with religion and smearing councillor mcusker . mr felse you are a vile little inadequate i am not a member of the labour party i am a salfordian and i am offended by the likes of you trying to spread religious intolerance and bigotry salfords proud history speaks for itself we are an immigrant city where jewish /irish asian and many other creeds and races and religions have lived side by side for generations .mr felse dont use the filthy political tactics that were used in the election campaign of false allegations against mr corbyn and the labour party furnished by pressure groups and vested intrests on behalf of the tory party to try and further your sad cause whatever that is you seem to have delusions of running for position in salford you and your tory selfish greedy mob could not run a bath as time will show . |
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 06:03:46 on 23 February 2020 |
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| FELSE @ I DEMAND Mike McCusker be thrown to the pigs. I URGE everyone to watch him being eaten on the farm. Serious now. Come on, we have all had it bad, I've had it bad quite a few times in life, that's life. Life has its ups and downs. I've had the odd bully when I was younger, I got most of em back, apart from one, (his time Will come). You have to get over it, you move on. So FELSE, we DEMAND you get back in your apartment on st Lawrence quays and we all URGE to shut up. That's it. |
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Wrote not wrote wrote
at 17:40:54 on 22 February 2020 |
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| Felse how the hell can you make this about religion and YOU!?!?! I DID find the whole thread of comments offensive, HUGELY offensive....TO PIGS! How dare they compare pigs to Tories! Pigs are hugely intelligent and at least you know where you stand with pigs.....with Tories they would stab you in the back soon as look at you!
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wrote
at 17:40:38 on 22 February 2020 |
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| Awful to see Felse degraded with even more abusive words. The use of calling Michael trash is another all time low from Salford Labour camp no doubt they feel justified because Labour lost the big election. Use the mirror reflection if you want to see trash. It is good to see Felse standing up to the sewer brigade they will be the final self destruction of the Labour Party thank God. |
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wrote
at 16:20:05 on 22 February 2020 |
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| what a load of sanctimonious drivel from jerk off chancer felse read the post daft head its got nothing to do with any religion so stop the bullshit its trash like you misrepresenting quotes and comments that cause real problems and misery and pain in many peoples lives stick to the facts no persons religion was attacked in the article and i would suggest that ignorant idiots like you foster hatred with your cynical attempt to gain some sort of capital from this story shame on you . |
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white wrote
at 16:19:45 on 22 February 2020 |
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| Three 'demands' from Felse. Is this a record? |
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Felsey wrote
at 13:16:02 on 22 February 2020 |
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| Along my life line of decency I have suffered homophobic attacks, hate and physical violence in my long years fight for equality but life has taught me to expect bullies. Yet it gets me angry when a person of authority appears to insult my heritage. I demand a full apology for what appears may be an insult to my Jewish pride. I demand this be the last time we have any insult from a Labour Councillor. They need to realise throwing insult fosters a gutter plague of hate. I demand any Councillor shown to have used a distasteful comment be expelled from their Party and I demand the person resigns. That is the only acceptable form of apology.
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Salford Star wrote
at 13:15:53 on 22 February 2020 |
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| See Arnold Rimmer's comment below...If the F**%%% won't respond to us what are we supposed to do??? |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 13:14:18 on 22 February 2020 |
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| @wrote Yep. The MEN has the less one-sided full version of events. |
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wrote
at 13:13:51 on 22 February 2020 |
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| @lulu and @paul Kelly thank you for giving me a great start to the weekend! 😂😂😂 |
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wrote
at 06:51:57 on 22 February 2020 |
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| An excellent article in the MEN which gives the full context of the posts. Social media is the playground of idiots, snowflakes, wannabes, bully’s, bigots and all of life’s misfits. I steer well clear. |
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Lulu wrote
at 06:51:06 on 22 February 2020 |
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| He should take back his comments and say "Sorry, I didn't mean to call them pigs, I meant to call them cunts." |
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bob the regular wrote
at 06:50:37 on 22 February 2020 |
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| Oh Dear ,Cllr Mccuskers in big trouble. No doubt he will be summoned to Miss Mandy's office for a severe telling off and told to stand in the corner wearing a dunces hat for half an hour. On a more serious note it is good to see our elected politicians taking an interest in local journalism. Could our editor perhaps in the kindness of his heart, offer these people a little bit of column space each week so we can see what they want to say to us.I remember years ago in the old Salford reporter, Old mother Garido used to write a column. I never read it though. |
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paul kelly wrote
at 06:50:16 on 22 February 2020 |
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| Councillor MCusker need not defend himself tories are not like pigs pigs are warm clean and honest .the quote i would use to describe tories is the one Anueurin Bevan used when the labour party introduced the NHS in 1948 the tories are lower than vermin because of course the tories never wanted an NHS or a welfare state .and after seeing and living through the tory attempts ongoing to dismantle the welfare state and the destruction of the NHS and bearing personal witness to the thatcher regimes assault on the coal miners and coal mining communities by police thugs the judiciary and many media/ press tv /etc supporting tory state thuggery and oppression of cival liberties which one day will be revealed when the true history of the miners strike is written TORIES LOWER THAN VERMIN PAUL KELLY STRIKING MINER 1984 .85 |
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