Rentals company suspends business in UK after a series of racist tweets

A rental company has suspended operations in the UK after it came under fire from racist tweets.

The Star-Ledger reports that Rentals Group has pulled its business from The Barns in the city of Oxford after one of its agents posted a series from a racist Twitter account, calling black people ‘cockroaches’ and ‘pigs’.

The company said in a statement on Monday: “We were appalled and deeply offended by the tweets and have removed the business from our portfolio and will not be operating in the country again.”

The Barns was named as one of the worst offenders in a UK survey of companies that discriminate against black and minority ethnic people.

It was also named as the UK’s biggest rental firm by The Guardian newspaper.

In one tweet, the company said: “I will take all the cockroaches that get in the way of my delivery and the pigs that get on my land”.

The company’s tweet was retweeted over 5,000 times.

The company also had a tweet with the caption: “There is a problem with the ‘cockroach’ in the barns.”

The tweets followed a string of racist posts from a user known as ‘pigwatt’.

In one of his tweets, he said: ‘I’m not a cockroach.

I’m a pig.

The same as you, you’re a cockroach.’