Big news for Coventry’s Conservatives today: Andy Matchet , former Lord Mayor and councillor for Earlsdon ward, has been suspended for getting pissed at his party and telling a (presumably hot) woman that he’d like to fuck her.

Also on the table was, as one commenter on the Coventry Telegraph website describes, “a militant feminist” who “just got her big old granny pants in a bit of a twist” and complained about Matchet’s behaviour saying that it has brought the office of Lord Mayor and Coventry City Council into disrepute. The Standards Board upheld that complaint from the other woman at the table despite there being no complaint from the woman to whom the comments were intended. 

Not everyone is upset at the actions of the one who is being dubbed Coventry’s Lewd Mayor. One commenter on the Coventry Telegraph website said:

What a legend!

Anyone know where he lives? Want to put an invite through his door for our Christmas Party!

UPDATE, JAN 2010: Cllr Matchet had his appeal against his suspension dismissed and will now likely face deselection.

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