Labour Councillor Suspended Over Nazi Parody

A Labour councillor from Nottingham has been suspended for sharing a doctored Conservative election poster on Twitter which shows a photo of a Nazi death camp.

Rosemary Healy, who represents Nottingham City Council's Mapperley ward, has expressed "profound apologies" after sharing the image with more than 1,500 followers.

She said she did not realise the altered version of the Tory election poster had used an image of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

A Labour Party spokesperson confirmed: "Rosemary Healy has been suspended from the Labour Party."

The original Conservative poster shows a country road above the slogan "Let's stay on the road to a stronger economy".

The poster has been mocked in recent days after it emerged the country road shown in the photo is in Germany, not the UK.

The altered version of the poster was posted by the @ThomasPride Twitter account and replaced the road with a picture of the railway lines at Auschwitz.

"The new Tory campaign poster featuring a German road's a bit controversial" the post said, adding the slogan "more people on zero hours, more tax cuts for the rich, no more NHS".

Ms Healy later deleted her retweet and posted: "Profound apologies for that retweet which was a genuine mistake and would never have been retweeted had I recognised it for what it was."

The user of the Thomas Pride account has defended the parody image against complaints from other Twitter users.

He also insisted the parody poster was legitimate satire, adding that he was of Polish descent.