User:Forerunner/Jolene Bunting

Jolene Bunting is a far-right apologist representing Belfast city council as an independent Unionist. She has made headlines in both Britain and Ireland for her reactionary comments and ties.

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In April 2018, leaflets advertising the anti-Islam and anti-immigration group, Generation Sparta, were posted to homes in the ethnically-diverse Ravenhill neighbourhood. Bunting attacked the very suggestion that the Britain First-aligned group was racist, and counterargued that labelling it hate speech would be Fascistic.

In May, Bunting attracted fresh condemnations when she shared a Pepe meme in relation to the potentiality of Ireland leaving the European Union, but opposed any suggestion that the drunk, mentally-handicapped frog wearing a "Please be patient, I have famine" hat was in any way offensive, adding that people who did attack her for it were probably the IRA and Sinn Fein voters.