‘Crazy black wh***’: Second Change UK candidate quits party over offensive social media posts
A second Change UK candidate has been forced to resign, just 24 hours after being unveiled as one of the party’s representatives at the upcoming EU elections, following a string of sexist remarks made about women on Twitter.
Joseph Russo, who was announced as the centrist party’s top candidate for Scotland on Tuesday, deleted his Twitter account and resigned from the pro-second referendum group on Wednesday, following the discovery of his offensive tweets.
In one tweet from 2012, he claimed: “Black women scare me. I put this down to be chased through Amsterdam by a crazy black wh***.”
In another post he makes equally derogatory remarks about women, saying: “I wonder if there’s a c*** / anchovy correlation. One smells like the other.” Another criticized the arrest of renowned pedophile Gary Glitter.
Russo’s resignation comes quickly on the back of another Change UK nominee for London, former Tory, Ali Sadjady, quitting on the day the party officially unveiled its EU candidates to the media in Bristol.
Sadjady was accused of “hate speech” after a tweet emerged from November 2017, in which he ostensibly linked the majority of pickpocket crimes on London’s Underground tube system, to Romanians.
The new centrist party, headed by ex-Tory Heidi Allen, was at the center of a race row, shortly after officially launching earlier this year.
One of its representatives, Angela Smith, a former Labour MP, caused widespread anger after using the phrase “funny tinge” to refer to Black, mixed and ethnic (BME) people, while debating the issue of racism live on TV. She later apologized for the comments, claiming she had “misspoke.”
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