The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
7 January (Part 2) - The Maggot Sandwich is on the right track
As someone who takes
an interest in the local railway scene but falls far short of being a train
nerd I found the video about the new London Bridge station that Hugh Neal
posted on his Maggot Sandwich blog
today fascinating. (Foot of his page.) I watched it for the whole 13 minutes.
When the flu bug, which has made a bit of a resurgence over the past 48 hours,
finally goes away I shall go to look at London Bridge station for myself.
I am also most grateful to Hugh for highlighting
the dangers to all bloggers - in reality every news outlet - represented by Kent
Police’s decision to refer the report on Maxine Fothergill’s libel to the Crown
Prosecution Service. As he points out it represents a grave threat to freedom of
speech and in my opinion to journalism as we have known it.
Over the next day or two I will publish emails which show that whilst I was keen
to close down the subject, Councillor Fothergill would accept nothing less than
wiping every trace of the story from the web. A lot of people would welcome
restraints on press freedom like that, most of them bad ones I would think.
More news outlets should be as alert to that danger as Hugh appears to be. Sadly
that has not happened so far.