ANOTHER complaint has been made against the deputy mayor of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in relation to her Twitter account.

The complaint was submitted to the council’s monitoring officer on January 27 referring to various Tweets which appear to be from Cllr Onnalee Cubitt’s account. 

One Tweet said: “…China is not going to become a more westernised, democratised, less totalitarian nation if we just continue to treat them as an equal.”

Cllr Cubitt, who represents the Basing ward, was previously investigated after having a formal complaint made against her after she liked a Tweet by Donald Trump in which he referred to Covid-19 as “a very bad ‘gift’ from China”.

However, the complaint, which accused her of racism, was dismissed by the council because it happened in her “private life”.

Cllr Cubitt, who is due to become the next mayor, is already under investigation for two other complaints made last year after she compared making changes to the council offices to Year Zero, which is widely recognised as referring to the killing of two million people in the Cambodian Genocide.

Her comment sparked deputy leader of the council Cllr Simon Bound to publicly state he will not be supporting her appointment as mayor this year because of her “track record of being offensive and not giving a damn who she upsets”.

The borough council said it is following its Arrangements for Dealing with Complaints Against Councillors procedure, and these are still under investigation.

A spokesperson for the borough council said it had been liaising with the complainant regarding the complaint made in January, to “seek additional information”.

They added: “As outlined under the complaints process, we need full information about the alleged breach of the councillors’ Code of Conduct before we assess whether the complaint meets the criteria set out in the first stage of the arrangements for considering complaints.”

Cllr Cubitt has not responded to a request for a comment.