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As reported in The Guardian, and on the blogger's own site, British writer Michael Abberton tweeted a link to a fake and/or satirical advertisement for the right wing UKIP party.
Not too long after he was "visited by two Cambridgeshire police officers on Saturday. He was told he had not committed any crimes, but was asked to delete some of his tweets, particularly a retweet of a faked poster giving 10 reasons to vote for Ukip, such as scrapping paid maternity leave and raising income tax for the poorest 88% of Britons."
All of this is strange enough on it's own, but be sure to check the comment stream on his blog, where any number of Anons claim that he made up the entire story, despite the police having already confirmed it!
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:59PM
Not only did he make up the story, he made up the entire country. You may think there's an UK, but actually he just invented it, along with the right wing party and the policemen. In truth there's no such thing. Oh, and he even hacked Google Maps to show a big island between Ireland and continental Europe, where the UK is claimed to be. Don't believe that. There's only water there. Really!
SCNR
(Score: 2) by nukkel on Tuesday May 13 2014, @07:41PM
There's only water there, and it's called 'ale'.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 13 2014, @09:20PM
First Belgium does not exist, and now this! I think there may be some kind of Global Land Change going on. Or did I dream it?