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England Expects Blog Censorship: Blog Platform
I’m getting tired of this.
Another one, and this one is even more ironic that the Welsh Assembly case.
Gawain Towler, The Press Officer for the Independent Europe Group (essentially UKIP and sister parties) in the European Parliament, whose job is to represent this group in criticising the EU has been forced to take his blog down for … er … criticising the EU. He’s employed by the European Parliament, and that means that he is subject to regulations.
He runs .. sorry used to run … the England Expects website. You can read the detail on the site.
It has been closed down under threat of disciplinary action from within the organisation after a complaint was made about a single post - which he had already edited to remove the particular issue that had been raised with him.
The complaint escalated through the organisation, and the sky subsequently fell in.
There has been some support from Jon Worth and Nosemonkey, as well as many others of a more EU-sceptic bent.
Europe in Ireland’s hands: Politics Decoded with Garbo
A plea to Ireland: Vote NO.
It seems that the tide may just be turning in Ireland towards a no vote on the Lisbon treaty, and I hope that they do reject it. This is not some anti-EU rant but a call for fair play from the continent that was the birth place of democracy.
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