A councillor has been suspended from the Conservative Party after telling an Asian woman to “go back to where you came from.”

Cllr Sue Anderson, who has been a councillor in Bournemouth since 2007, tweeted to an account jointly run by Deepa Naik, a woman of Asian descent:

“If you don’t like it here go back to where you came from.”

Having doled out this racist abuse, she went on to announce her support for the, erm, English Defence league:

“But nobody else except the EDL stick up for the English.”

Grandmother Cllr Anderson at first showed incredulity at her own tweet, saying, “It doesn’t sound like me”, but subsequently apologised “unreservedly” and removed her entire profile page from Twitter.

Perhaps she might learn a few things from the travails of her Tory colleague Blaine Robin, who was ditched by voters in Southend after Scrapbook exposed his attendance at an EDL rally last year.

Blaine at least deserves points for creativity — with election attempts to turn the incident to his advantage by claiming he was a “community cohesion champion”.