16 August - Anti-establishment rhetoric
In April 2011 a tyrannical Council Leader called in her friends in the police and asked them to find a way
to prevent me reporting on Council meetings in a less than flattering way.
Someone with half a brain may have decided a more sensible course would be to
call or write to me to ask why I did it.
The police duly obliged and threatened me with arrest if I continued to criticise Councillors.
With the help of my Labour MP - something that would be unimaginable today - the
police eventually wrote to me to apologise for acting outside the law on the
whim of an undemocratic Council Leader.
Today, under a Labour Government, a man charged with publishing
anti-establishment rhetoric and having no love for Muslims has been sent to jail for three years.
His first ever conviction.
The Labour Party under Starmer is a very different beast to that of 13 years ago.
