Councillors clash over edited photo

Two councillors have clashed over a photograph of the WAMCF cricket tournament in which the face of an opposition member was blanked out.

On Sunday evening, Cllr Gurpreet Bhangra (Con, Boyn Hill) tweeted a picture including opposition councillor Gurch Singh (Lib Dem, St Mary’s) in the background.

But Cllr Singh was unhappy to see that his face had been scribbled out with a digital marker, asking for the reason via Twitter, and saying he found it ‘rude and offensive’ and not ‘in the sprit’ of WAMCF.

Later, the pictures were tweeted out again by Cllr Bhangra without the edit.

Cllr Singh complained further that he had been blocked by Cllr Bhangra.

Cllr Bhangra said that he had never intended for Cllr Singh to be in the photo and removed him because he did not have Cllr Singh’s consent to post a picture of him.

He expressed regret that the incident had been ‘highly politicised’ and apologised for any upset ‘to those of genuine concern’.