(not satire – it’s the UK gutter press!)
Can you believe this for breathtaking hypocrisy?
The Mail, the Telegraph and the Sun have all been banging on and bloody on about how awful the European Convention on Human Rights is right?
For example, the Mail said it was a”great day for British justice” when home secretary Theresa May vowed to take the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights, calling it a ‘discredited’ and ‘ludicrous’ convention which allowed “foreign courts to meddle in British justice”.
So on what legal grounds are the same newspaper groups basing their refusal to comply with the new press regulations agreed in parliament today?
That’s right – they’re saying they’re going to boycott the regulations because they’re contrary to article 10 of …… wait for it …… the European Convention of Human Rights!
Maybe Murdoch, Rothermere and co are so arrogant they believe human rights only apply to billionaire press barons like themselves?
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The Sun, The Mail et al – sorry, did we say 120,000 problem families? We meant 16.
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why am i not surprised…anyway do does the ECHR exist for corporations?? i think not when i think of the McLibel case….
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i just had to post this !!!
Tom Pride is one of the great writers in our time who’s satire and wit will outlast and be remembered far long after many popular and published self styled writers have ended and been forgotten. Because Tom Pride as well as Johnny Void capture the times and so knowledgeable of what is really going on and speak to the people
so this tom pride, anyone heard of him? me neither…oh well…:)
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you can thank aunty at after atos for that quote..now its time for you bloggers to kiss and make up…
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i would like to point out that in the levenson enquirey the subject of defaming disabled people in the media was also part of it..i hope they will heed that but i doubt it.
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I’ve got no problem with Johnny Bob. Johnny for some reason however doesn’t seem to like my blog. Oh well.
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Reblogged this on paul8ar.
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@tom well aunty loves you….
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I think you have it wrong Tom.
They want Human Rights for Newspaper Corporations not for Humans.
There is a difference.
Hypocritical? Nah
Crazy Koalas fishing for sharks in a billabong shitcake nuts? Yup.
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Article 10 – Freedom of expression
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
I think owners of the sun, telegraph and mail (or their lawyers) were only looking at paragraph 1. This royal charter is fully in line with paragraph 2. This makes their hypocrisy even more stupid!
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@supineblast what about the freedom to exploit people?
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That would be a different article of the convention
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@supineblast actually the slagging off disabled people as benefit scrungers was also mentioned in levenson too will they heed that?
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As you would say you couldn’t make it up
Dave
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