Nazi-joke councillor suspended

He was unavailable for comment when contacted by the JC, but played down the incident in his local newspaper, the Glamorgan Gazette.

“I have rather a great sense of humour. I tend to see things in a funny light,” he said.

“I’d like people to think, ‘he’s a tidy bloke’. I was not wandering around in Nazi uniform. I could understand it causing offence if I had gone up and down Porthcawl promenade, but it was a private party.”

His page on Facebook, the social networking site, also showed links to sites making jokes about serial killers Fred West and Harold Shipman, sparking further outrage and leading colleagues to claim he had brought the council into disrepute and should resign.