A hearing on Friday saw a town councillor sanctioned after a committee deemed comments he posted on Facebook as \u2018derogatory or offensive’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carl Miller, a member of Hatfield Town Council, suggested renaming the town with a racial slur and claimed that migrants overwhelm his ward in a post he shared on April 9, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the hearing on Friday, he defended that the racially offensive names suggested in his post were \u2018real places\u2019 elsewhere in the world. However, a sub-committee found the posts had breached the councillor’s code of conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further comments in his series of Facebook posts included a reference to the \u2018Great Replacement\u2019 \u2014 a far-right conspiracy theory that alleges that certain groups are deliberately replacing white Europeans with non-white immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miller, who does not represent a political party on the council, went on to say that “having spent all day in my front garden, I could somehow be forgiven for thinking that my house has been moved to Africa.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second post in the investigation included a complaint about fellow Labour MP Lee Pitcher, in which he repeated a racial slur and complained that the council was giving family homes to migrants In this post, Coun Miller made similar racially insensitive suggestions to renaming Hatfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Concannon determined that Coun Miller had breached the councillor’s code of conduct with his posts, and fellow panel members accepted his conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The audit-hearings sub-committee panel launched the investigation after Reform UK councillor Isaiah-John Smith-Reasbeck complained about the posts<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sub-committee issued Coun Miller four sanctions, including a recommendation that Hatfield Town Council remove him from all his appointments to internal and external bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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