Sunday 29 April 2012

Homophobic Tweet from Labour Councillor Jim Fitzpatrick



Councillor Jim Fitzpatrick who represents the Hyde Godley ward for the Labour Party posted the above comment to Twitter earlier today. His long term partner, Janet Jackson (no, not that one) is standing for the seat of Stalybridge North which is currently held by the Conservative Councillor, Clive Patrick.

Councillor Patrick has put out a leaflet about the number of "husband and wife" team of councillors which plagues the Tameside Labour Party. Described as a "family affair" by one local blog, there are currently 4 married couples sitting on the council, with Janet Jackson and Audenshaw's candidate, Tessa Smith, wife of Mike Smith, Councillor for Denton West bringing that total to 6 if they win their seats on May the 3rd.

Fitzpatrick who works for Manchester City Council and who sits as a executive cabinet member of Tameside Council as First Deputy, is obviously irked by this and has chosen to attack Clive by saying that his missus "has not mentioned the man he lives with". For the record, Clive is openly gay and lives with his civil partner, who works as a nurse and nothing to do with politics. The comment by Councillor Fitzparick has a whiff of homophobia to it.

Janet Jackson works as a Administrative Assistant for Jonathan Reynolds, MP for Stalybridge & Hyde and PPS to Ed Miliband. This is the second gaffe of the week as earlier on we exposed Reynold's Parliamentary Assistant, Adam White pictured smoking drugs.

Source: Twitter

UPDATE 01/05/2012: Councillor Fitzpatrick has now removed the comment from his Twitter account. He hasn't made a public apology to Councillor Patrick.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

So does clive mention his partner? Answer: no

Why not? Surely if you are going to bring family into this he should also bring his own?

Tameside Labour said...

Clive doesn't mention his partner as he isn't standing for election unlike Janet Jackson is, whose already got a job in politics working for Jonathan Reynolds and is hooked up to Councillor Jim Fitzpatrick in Hyde.

Anonymous said...

you make the point anon1 does. what has janets partner to do with her standing, nothing so why is clive bringing cllr fitzpatrick into this?

also i am sure whoever you are writing this blog you too are paid by someone, well done. Janet's job is legit as im sure your's is and clives, so what the hell does her job have to do with this candidacy?

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Can't see any Labour lies anywhere
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