Guernsey race row: ‘I won’t step down’
Thursday 27th November 2008, 2:56PM GMT.
DESPITE calls for his resignation over his racist ‘golliwog’ joke, Guernsey’s deputy Chief Minister Bernard Flouquet is refusing to step down.
It has been reported that more than 20 of Guernsey’s States Members have called for him to go. The controversial remark was made in front of rolling cameras at a press conference last week.
Deputy Flouquet has issued an unreserved apology for saying that the USA was going to let Britain ‘put golliwogs back on jam jars’ in a reference to Barack Obama’s election victory.
In Guernsey’s Stat-es, he told Members — some of whom had been expecting his resignation over the incident — that he had been embarrass-ed by the remark. But he claimed that it was had not been meant to be broadcast and that he thought it would stay private.
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