Saturday, 17 April 2010

Sutton 'Guardian' Joke Journalists

The Electoral Commission is running a campaign wanting you the great British Public to get involved in democratic politics. All well and good.

Ok you put your name down as a candidate of a registered political party to stand for Parliament, the returning officer is pleased and extremely helpful that his constituency is being used as a testing ground for a new party.

Then you send off your biography to the local press, remember them the fourth estate, charged with investigating and holding the system to account.

So have a look at what the Sutton 'Guardian' decides to print instead of the Libertarian Party's candidate official bio.

This was lifted off a darts social website that the candidate had given his time and energy to. The now owner of that website has sent a furious email of complaint to the editor.

This coming hard on the heels of washed up journo Andrew Neil's treatment of Chris Mounsey the Libertarian Party Leader, playing the man not the policies. Here we go again, the media not wanting to give the public ideas above their station that there is an alternative to the three major parties corrupt tax & spend policies.

The Libertarian Party agent for Sutton & Cheam has dropped a polite email to the Editor asking for a little chat on Monday morning.

The two 'journalists' who put this together are obviously aiming high in their careers as political editors of page 16 of the Sunday Sport.

Not only is Westminster a festering pit of self interest, the fouth estate is happily wallowing in the same mire

The joke party candidate- the Labour Party candidate gets a glowing bio. This joke party has put each one of us in massive debt, lowered living standards and widened the gap between rich and poor. Even the overtly far left BNP gets a respectful mention.

Looking forward to that chat Monday.


' Libertarianism the concept that dare not speak its name'

7 comments:

Dr Rohen Kapur said...

Grounds for Libel.

But then you know all about that

sconzey said...

Hah; it's true, it is grounds for libel. Give 'em hell!

In fairness though, that great oracle google finds no bio in the first ten hits for "martin cullip lpuk" or "martin cullip"

sconzey said...

Hang on, Monday? If our PPC is getting a weekend's ridicule, we'd better be getting some compensation, or a printed front-page apology.

To be honest, I consider it a valid electioneering strategy to sue for libel anyway. This is the Libel Capital of teh World after all; no such thing as bad publicity etc.

Leg-iron said...

running across all eight lanes of the M25 at junction eight dressed only in a basque and a pair of Pretty Polly 15 denier stockings

Gets my vote. I only wear a basque when the council call and want to come in.

They never do, oddly enough.

Perhaps it's the Tim Rice makeup.

Ben said...

Good luck with that 'chat' today. Hope something fruitful comes of it!

Kevin Monk said...

This new version looks a lot better. Do you think you could get them to link to the lpuk.org website? Potential voters looking at the site may want to find out more about the party as there's noting on the bio that says what his policies are.

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