I CAN’T count the number of times I’ve become embroiled  in Facebook arguments. Just the other day I called someone a silly billy, which, by my own admission, isn’t exactly X-rated.

However when I’ve been really upset by social media, really offended, I have fought the urge to mudsling and, as my nanna and the Sermon on The Mount taught me, I metaphorically turn the other cheek, and walk away from the situation.

So imagine, when I opened my weekly local paper, to find  Cllr Seve Gomez Aspron had been found to have breached the councillor's code of conduct by using a foul euphemism to insult a resident on Facebook.

It appears the Standards Committee found he had not chosen to turn the other cheek and had in fact decided to sock one right back.

He then protested that he didn’t know the phrase was a derogatory term. 
What then, may I ask, did he think it meant? 

Did you really plan to meet the lady next Tuesday? 

I think he played it badly here. How gullible does he think we are?

EM Ward, via email