<strong><span style="font-size: 12pt">British election candidate suspended by Labour party after boasting of sex life online</span></strong><br /><br />  <table style="width: 112px; height: 302px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="112" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/apr/cowan.jpg" border="0" />u00a0</td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><strong>Foot in mouth:</strong> John Cowan</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Britain's ruling Labour party has suspended a candidate ahead of the May 6 general election, it said, after he boasted about his sex life online. <br /><br />John Cowan (35) was also accused of saying he "would not be happy" if his children dated Muslims, a localu00a0 newspaper reported.<br /><br />Describing his sex life, Cowan reportedly wrote: "Why limit it to just one woman? I would prefer one for each day of the week!" He was dropped two weeks after Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour banned another candidate, Stuart MacLennan, from standing in a Scottish seat due to his foul-mouthed rants on micro-blogging site Twitter.<br /><br />MacLennan abused figures including Brown's main rivals Conservative leader David Cameron, who he called a "twat", and Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats, who was labelled a "bastard".<br /><br />A spokeswoman for Labour said Cowan's alleged comments on dating and motoring websites were "totally unacceptable".<br /><br />"The general secretary of the Labour party has suspended the candidate from the Labour party and we are taking action to ensure he can never be a Labour candidate again," she said, adding that the party's committees would consideru00a0 his expulsion.<br /><br />Cowan was Labour's candidate in the South East Cambridgeshire constituency in eastern England, seen as a Conservative stronghold. <br /><br />Defending himself, Cowanu00a0 said, "I post what I think. I think, to be honest, there is a level of transparency thereu00a0 (on the websites) that isn't normally associated with many people in politics." <br /><br />  <table class="ae_noborder" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" width="400" border="0">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td bgcolor="#ef4130"><strong><font color="#ffffff"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Tweeted out</span></font></strong></td></tr>  <tr>  <td bgcolor="#e1e1e1"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Earlier this month, Stuart MacLennan, the Labour candidate in Moray, was sacked over offensive remarks he posted on Twitter -- calling elderly people "coffin dodgers" and being abusive to political rivals and celebrities. <br />He called Conservative leader David Cameron, a "twat", and Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats, a "bastard".</span></font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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