Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Celebrations in India as Barry Stanton Twitter account has been suspended over Anti Indian racism tweets.
Ultimately, joke or not, @BarryStanton64 was tweeting racist quips. And finally, after multiple reports to Twitter and thousands of retweets, this month the social media company suspended ‘him’ indefinitely.
Barry Stanton didn’t ever exist. It didn’t take too long for the account to be outed as a parody, and not a real man spouting nonsense about Brexit and the Quran.
But that doesn’t mean ‘Barry’ didn’t have an impact beyond comedic purpose.
Who, for example, was the man in the picture, a now semi-famous online personality? The answer: Nigel Addison, a 62-year-old former Labour councillor from Droitwich in Worcestershire.