UKIP AM Michelle Brown facing week's expulsion.

There will of course those who will claim that the case of  UKIP AM Michelle Brown who is facing a week's exclusion from the assembly without pay over a racial slur she used to describe a Labour MP " is another story of

  "Political Correctness gone mad"

But in a week when Darren Osborne, the man who drove a van into a crowd of Muslims near a north London mosque has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 43 years behind bars. It shows that Politicians  (as all of us) have a duty not to racially insult others.

Darren Osborne, 48, was found guilty of murdering Makram Ali, 51, after deliberately ploughing into a crowd of people in Finsbury Park in June.

There has been a spirit of denial from  the media claiming that
Osborne, had became "obsessed" with Muslims in the weeks leading up to the attack, having watched the BBC drama Three Girls, about the Rochdale grooming scandal.

However maybe they should exam their role in the radicalisation of a right-wing white terrorist as Osborne should be described

That is whymembers of the standards committee, including party colleague Gareth Bennett, are right in ruling Michelle Brown she committed a "severe breach" of the code of conduct.

Ms Brown made the comment about Chuka Umunna in a private phone call in 2016.

A spokesman for Michelle Brown said she would appeal. She has apologised for any offence caused.

The spokesman, alluding to occasions where Mr Bennett has drawn negative publicity, added:

 "Michelle Brown is not likely to take any lessons at all on political correctness or conduct, from Gareth Bennett."

The recommendation of the standards committee, and the results of an investigation by the standards commissioner Sir Roderick Evans that prompted it, have come to light after its report was leaked to BBC Wales.
It will be up to assembly members to decide whether to endorse the exclusion in a vote in Senedd. It is thought to be the first case of its kind.


Ms Brown called the MP for Streatham, Chuka Umunna, a "coconut" in a phone call in May 2016 to her then senior adviser Nigel Williams, which he released a recording of to the Daily Post newspaper last summer.
In his investigation the standards commissioner found that the term "coconut" fell below the standard of conduct required of AMs.
He said the point that Ms Brown was making - that, despite Mr Umunna's heritage, his privilege upbringing meant he had no greater understanding of the lives of ordinary members of the black and minority ethnic community - was "within the range of points that a politician is entitled to make".
But he said that fact remained that "Ms Brown, in making her point, resorted to using a term of racial abuse".

There is i admit a long way from Ms Brown's racial slurs to  Finsbury Park, but people like Darren Osborne do not need any further encouragement to come to a conclusion that there are elected representatives   and  above all newspapers like the Daily Mail, Express and Telegraph on their side.