And we have an early entrant for most stupid political act on social media, 2015

It may be the first month of the year. The date may still be in single figures. But we’ve got a strong entry, courtesy of Labour councillor Rosemary Healy:

A Labour councillor has been suspended by the party for sharing on social media a parody of a Conservative election poster doctored to include an image of a Nazi death camp. Rosemary Healy, who represents the Mapperley ward on Nottingham City Council, insisted she had not spotted what the picture was of when she sent it on to more than 1,500 followers on Twitter and expressed “profound apologies”.

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