Ukip councillor sends cops to activist's house, ask him to delete critical tweet

[pixleshifter]

Not necessarily. He made his hair up all by himself.

[GilbertWham]

Well, that’s all well and groovy, but that’s like conflating your favourite pop group with the fucking Tea Party. So not really that groovy.

[lrf]

“And whilst acknowledging the fact that the police had no right to censure my posts, in order to show goodwill I removed all instances of the poster where I’d sent it @someone, and have not tweeted about the visit or about that political party since.”

God Bless the British: “Terrible violation of my rights; dreadful potential chilling effect. Still, wouldn’t want any hard feelings.”

[alan_braggins]

It was Cllr Peter Reeve, Ukip’s local Government spokesman and national nominating officer.

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