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Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning
Dr_Barnowl writes "In an occurrence first postulated in sci-fi and later lampooned by stick figures, it seems that a blogger has actually been responsible for the mass resignation of elected officials — a British town council — largely by calling them 'jack***es' and Nazis. What's next? The deposition of a president with 'your mom' smacktalk?"
---Counsellors are a different breed of people altogether, like Troi.---
I think you misspelled "prostitute."
Reduced bin collection to every *two weeks*
Sorry, I just don't understand the complaints on this front. The local council here does rubbish collection every week and recycling collection every 2 weeks. I put out one *small* bin bag every 2 weeks. I produce maybe 4 or more times the volume of recycling than I produce landfill rubbish. Now, I admit that I am a single person, but a family of 4 should produce less than 4 times the amount of rubbish than a single person, and yet we have people with the *large* 240 or 360 litre wheelie bins in the news complaining that over 2 weeks they produce far more landfill rubbish than can be accommodated in their bin. What the hell are these people throwing away? I would wholly support the idea of reducing landfill rubbish collections to every 2 weeks; I just wish my council would introduce kerbside plastic and tetra collections so I don't have to take that stuff to the tip myself.
Used anti-terror laws to conduct surveillance on people the council suspects of having un-approved structures...like a garden shed in the backyard.
Citation please. You don't need planning permission for temporary structures, such as garden sheds, so this sounds completely bogus to me.
http://blog.nexusuk.org
Anonymous? Like a sniper, you mean? If you hide youself behind anonymity, you are no better than the bloke at the back of a crowd who jeers - or throws a stone, for that matter. People like you always talk about "freedom" and "rights", but what they mean is simply that they want to shirk their responsibility, like the free-loaders on society they are; true freedom comes with responsibility and obligations.
It is always possible - certainly in UK - to express your opinion without fear of prosecution and to be in loyal opposition. This was most recently demonstrated by the BBC inviting the clown Nick Griffin to participate in Question Time.