Council of Europe issues media freedom alert over UK govt blacklisting journos

[johnofgwent]

The Council of Europe - which is sod all to do with the European Council, so named by the stuffed shirts in Brussels to cause maximum confusion, is the body responsible for us not being allowed to hang anyone any more.

frankly, we need to leave it.

[Borchester]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/press-freedom-uk-government-council-europe-alert-boris-johnson-priti-patel-a9706741.html%3famp

They need to hire Sean Spicer I think, no one outdoes the Spicy, period!

The activists at the Independent sound worried.

I am not surprised. This is the second time in a week that I have read an article in the Indy and there have not been any comments. Not even from me and I have three accounts. Time was when the paper was supported by the banks and mega finance houses, now it relies on double glazing ads. And with oil prices the way they are the Indy probably can't even ask it Saudi owners for some extra bunce.

[papasmurf]

The Tory government has been blacklisting journalists since not long after May 2010.
The DWP did so within weeks.

[Sheepy]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/press-freedom-uk-government-council-europe-alert-boris-johnson-priti-patel-a9706741.html%3famp

They need to hire Sean Spicer I think, no one outdoes the Spicy, period!

The activists at the Independent sound worried.

[Borg Refinery]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/press-freedom-uk-government-council-europe-alert-boris-johnson-priti-patel-a9706741.html%3famp

They need to hire Sean Spicer I think, no one outdoes the Spicy, period!