Trivial Tweets: Pandering to the Easily Offended...Can't the ombudsman just say no for once

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A complaint has been made to a PC watchdog about a councillor accused of suggesting on Twitter that a woman turn to prostitution to earn money. According to the Western Mail, Carmarthenshire councillor John Jenkins responded to a female Twitter user who said she needed to earn money quickly by writing: Prostitution? On a serious note, good money in being in an escort. Jenkins, who represents Elli in Llanelli as an independent, said: Someone has obviously gone to a lot of effort to trawl through an archive of my private communications to find something that they can take out of context to make me look bad. Continue reading the main story Start Quote In no way can private banter between friends, none of which were offended by the obvious tongue-in-cheek banter, be considered offensive. He said he had been the subject of a vexatious, politically-motivated complaint and looked forward to explaining it to the ombudsman if the watchdog thinks there is a case to answer. A spokeswoman for the Public Services Ombudsman confirmed a complaint had been made. She said it would be considered before a decision is taken whether to launch a formal investigation.

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