The leader of the West Berkshire Council Tory group is up before a standards in public office committee this week – after insulting a fellow councillor. The complaint centres around a WhatsApp messaging group in which Ross Mackinnon called Green Party candidate Steve Masters a ‘poisonous little toad’. The messages then carried support of violence. “I see we are choosing violence today. Love to see it,” said one, which the Conservative leader defended as humour. At the time, councillor Masters was a Green Party councillor representing the ward of Newbury Speen. “It has been alleged that this is…