Sunday, 25 April 2010

Labour PPC in Second Internet Scandal

As TB reported last week, Labour PPC John Cowan was selected despite being kicked out of the Lib Dems for being a sex pest. Despite being the one to complain to the Lib Dems, Kerry McCarthy MP turned a blind eye when Cowan was embraced with open arms by Labour and selected as a candidate. Well it looks tonight as if his career in the Labour Party is over as his website has disappeared. TB is hearing rumours that he has been sacked. This is also a big embarrassment for
LabourList
given Cowan was one of their regular contributors. His Twitter
account
seems unusually quiet.


The Telegraph, with a little help it must be said, have landed what must surely be the knock out blow on Cowan by revealing his anti Muslim, sexually explicit and offensive online comments under a veil of attempted annoymity on various chat room forums. You can read the whole story
here
.

This story seems far darker and deeper than the Stuart MacLennan Twitter
news
that disrupted Labour's first week of the campaign. The same rules must apply here. Why did he even get past the selection process? The Tories didn't touch him with a barge pole when he tried to come their way. Kerry McCarthy has a lot to answer for here.

Goodbye Cowan, or was it Racingdude009?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

He can't be sacked. Nominations have closed, he is the candidate, he can't withdraw.

Anonymous said...

This does not supprise me at all, cowan got in contact with me when I stood for election in south norfolk in 2007 when I was 18 and sent me inappropriate messages. I don't know what labour thought they were doing selecting him, he's a total liability.

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