Barnet Mayor Brian Coleman abuses blogger

Remember Brian Coleman, the Mayor of Barnet in North London, who is pioneering a budget-airline style council and who believes he is the victim of a "poisionous" blog campaign?

Coleman has been found guilty of breaching Para 3(1) of the London Borough of Barnet Members Code of Conduct after describing Roger Titchbourne of The Barnet Eye as "an obsessive, poisonous individual and Labour party member whose blog is full of lies, half truths and misinformation".

However, no sanction will be taken against Brian Coleman. Barnet Council have told the London Daily News: "We unanimously concur with Councillor Coleman’s legal representative that this is a case where our finding of a breach of Para 3(1) of the London Borough of Barnet Members Code of Conduct is sufficient and therefore we do not propose to apply any sanction."

I like the way Coleman makes "Labour party member" sound like an insult.