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December 22, 2013
A Conservative councillor is to undergo diversity training after offending ethnic minorities with her claim that golliwogs are ‘nostalgic, not racist’.
Cllr Dawn Barnett was found guilty of bringing Brighton and Hove City Council into disrepute with her remarks.
In August, Cllr Barnett said she thought golliwogs were ‘nostalgic, not racist’.
And she dismissed complaints against a city homestore selling golliwog placemats as ‘political correctness gone too far’.
However, a panel of three fellow councillors cleared the 72-year-old of failing to treat others with respect and breaching the Equalities Act.
The board – sitting in a closed hearing on Thursday – also recommended that all councillors should undergo diversity training in the future.
Her comments provoked four ‘separate but similar’ complaints from three people and the council’s Black and Minority Ethnic Workers’ Forum.
One complainant asked for an apology from Cllr Barnett while another said they wished to see her expelled from the council.
Speaking after the meeting, Cllr Barnett said the issue should never have progressed to a hearing and was a waste of taxpayers’ money.
The hearing was originally scheduled for November 28 but was dramatically postponed when Cllr Barnett fell down a flight of stairs on her way to the meeting.
