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posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the Chilling-Effects dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Tuesday May 13 2014, @07:55PM

    by bucc5062 (699) on Tuesday May 13 2014, @07:55PM (#42884)

    In looking at the ad I got a little confused with all the UK references for it seemed like a viable ad for the RNC...../kidding?

    My goodness, I thought politicians were suppose to have thicker skins then that or have more witty reparte' then "sic em you Bobby's, take em down good."

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