MediaWatchWatch has picked up a story about a Matalan advertising hoarding being vandalised in Birmingham’s predominantly Muslim Sparkbrook area. Apparently the poster, advertising swimwear, was too much for the vandal who glopped thick white paint all over it.

Vandalism happens and I wouldn’t have mentioned it here if it hadn’t been for Councillor Talib Hussain who, after condemning the act immediately went on to start equivocating.

I have received complaints on a number of occasions not to put adverts like that in Sparkbrook. The city council should not give permission to advertising like that in these wards. Having families seeing naked pictures does not bring the community together, it provokes things.

The only thing that swimwear adverts provoke is swimwear sales.

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