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Sammy Wilson 'ethnics' row: Today's politicians need to assume they are being recorded

We live in an era in which all public figures, particularly politicians, must assume that they are never far away from a microphone, camera or personal iPhone 
SAMMY Wilson’s response to the ‘ethnics’ story was so convoluted that I almost expected him to say that he would trust a gay, female, gypsy ethnic to go to a Muslim-owned shop for a curried yoghurt and then return with the correct change. He could have killed the whole story with one sentence: “I was responding to the gentleman’s answer to a question I had asked him; so, to avoid any confusion or misinterpretation, let me make it clear that I reject the subsequent odious comments made by the gentleman concerned.” That’s all that was required. End of[...]
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