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“Excuse me, what was that?” she replied. “Somebody just called you thick,” another councillor chimed in, “perhaps because they had forgotten to mute themselves”.
The chair of the meeting said he was not aware of who made the remark, but that it was “obviously not appropriate”.
It was suggested that whoever it was should apologise, which drew no response from Cllr Sharp, who was safely back on mute.
In April, Lib Dem county councillor Ian Manning apologised after beginning a one-day “solidarity” Ramadan fast by posting a picture of his breakfast plate of bacon on social media.
Cllr Manning said he was “tired and not thinking clearly” when he posted the image. “My main worry was that I’d let my friends and the Muslim organisers of LibDemIftar down – but they didn’t see what the fuss was about as I’m not Muslim,” he said.
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