Way back in December when the prat Praguetory whipped up a lot of fake angst about Unity’s image of David Cameron made up to look like a black-and-white minstrel, Welsh Tory MP David Davies decided to get himself a bit of publicity by jumping on a passing bandwagon. Davies, like the Prague idiot, was 'outraged', and went squealing off to the media saying that he thought the matter so serious he was reporting me to the Standards Board for reproducing the image, and to the Commission for Racial Equality too.

Well, I heard nothing at all from the CRE, like Sandwell Council they didn’t seem bovvered… but the Standards Board, they sprang into action. Within a week they had written to me telling me of Davies’ complaint, within a fortnight they had written again telling me they had appointed an ‘Ethical Officer’ to investigate… and then, a deafening silence.

Eventually it transpired that the Ethical Officer obviously found it too much trouble so asked the Council’s monitoring officer to look at it… then another long silence. Until this week.

… when I received a telephone call telling me that the twerp Davies had ‘withdrawn his complaint’.

Terrific. So this publicity freak makes an unsubstantiated complaint that he is outraged, slurs my name in the media, and then, when the dust dies down wants to slither back quietly into his hole before an investigation can be carried out which would prove he was talking rubbish all along. Creep. But instead of being a frivilous piece of nonsense, what if this had been a serious matter? My attitude to the Standards Board was, 'bring it on, give me a chance to show these people are talking rot', but someone faced with allegations of racism could have been really upset and driven themselves batty whilst this process ground through the gears.

Well, Stephen Chattaway is raising a petition calling for the end of the Standards Board because it is a waste of time and money (not unlike David Davies MP). Well, I’ll sign it!