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Complaints about Councillor’s petrol bomb remarks to be investigated by UKIP.
UKIP is to carry out a full investigation into complaints into remarks made by one of North East Lincolnshire’s South Ward councilor’s Jane Bramley. Over remarks, she made at a meeting over two shortlisted locations for temporary travellers sites on Grimsby’s Nunsthorpe estate.
The councillor warned of World War Three breaking out and said she feared petrol bombs were being prepared after she had read social media comments. Her remarks have sparked outrage from traveller groups. They fear that the comments could agitate community tensions, the remarks have also been criticised by the All Parliamentary Group on Gypsies, Travellers, and Roma. North East Lincolnshire Council and the Equality and Human Rights Commission have also had complaints submitted.
The comments are believed to have been defended by Councillor Jane Bramley as she remarked that she was only reporting what other people had said, and she did not condone violence. Under the authority’s local plan a designated stopping site for gypsy’s and traveller communities is legally required under the authority’s local plan.
Next week senior councillors will be asked to send the shortlist out for public consultation.
Does Councillor Jane Bramley deserve to be investigated over the remarks?
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