A Conservative candidate who was set on standing in next week’s local elections in Manchester has been suspended pending an investigation after posting a tweet comparing the trans rights movement with Nazis.
Earlier this week, Alex Bramham, who was campaigning for the Piccadilly ward, tweeted a doctored image of the Dad’s Army opening titles - which famously shows the Nazi swastika progressing through Europe. In the tweaked image, the swastika was replaced with the Progress Pride flag shown making its way towards the original 1978 rainbow Pride flag.
The LGBTQ+ Progress flag, first instilled in 2018, updates the original flag by adding five new colours: black and brown to represent people of colour, and pink, light blue and white to represent the trans, non-binary and intersex community.
