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January 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
ROTTEN BOROUGH AWARDS 2011
WHO’S been bullying the electors; who’s been pocketing the brown envelopes; and who doesn’t know the difference between “astronomy” and “astrology”? Find out if your local authority is guilty of crimes against the council taxpayer and picked up a gong in the Rotten Borough Awards 2011…
The past year saw a growing trend for councils to use the law, or the threat of legal action, to stifle free speech and limit public scrutiny of the way elected representatives spend taxpayers’ money. Councils seemed particularly alarmed by the increase in “citizen journalists” writing blogs and tweeting – and holding councils to account in ways that many local papers no longer have the balls to.
Highly commended: Tory “easycouncil” Barnet was one authority which took fright at the interest shown in its activities by electors – in particular a busy group of bloggers. It seriously considered prosecuting one of them, “Mr Mustard”, under the data protection act, until the information commissioner told it not to be so silly. Meanwhile it hired security men dressed in black paramilitary-style uniforms to intimidate members of the public who turned up for an important budget meeting. Hats off to the bloggers, in particular “Mrs Angry”, who revealed that the company, MetPro, hadn’t got a proper contract and used unlicensed, non-CRB-checked staff.
Runner-up: Carmarthenshire council, making up the rules as it went along, barred blogger Jacqui Thompson (aka @caebrwyn) from filming an important meeting. Dyfed-Powys police shamefully arrested Thompson and threw her in a cell for attempting to exercise her democratic rights.
Winner: Labour-run South Tyneside council, which admitted spending well over £100,000 trying to discover the identity of an anonymous blogger, “Mr Monkey”, who had embarrassed senior council figures – though the true bill is thought to be much higher. The only purpose of this would be to sue the author for libel – yet it is unlawful for a council to fund a libel action. A pointless waste of money, then? Not entirely, if it deters others from criticising the council.
Source: private-eye.co.uk
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