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Does anyone else find it odd that Westminster (London) Council is after Business for Sterling for fly posting? They produced a spoof of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks about the Euro (see the article below). They have been threatened with a hefty fine. What bothers me is that Greenpeace have fly-posted (note-posted more accurately) all over London and on the tube. Do you ever hear of Greenpeace getting fined for the same thing? Doesn’t it strike you as odd that anorganisation so set against polution, engages in sight polution on a regular basis?
On the subject of those annoying little stickers all over the place. How come it is that anti-Globilisation types can’t even manage to get stickers stuck straight?
from Peterborough in the Daily Telegraph (Filed: 19/01/2002)
Euro ‘Sex Pistols’ campaign turns vicious
BUSINESS for Sterling – those doughty souls who work so energetically against Britain adopting the euro – are used to having the might of our political establishment ranged against them.
It’s unlikely, though, that even they dreamt that Westminster City Council would obstruct their progress.
Amazingly, BFS will, I hear, be prosecuted next week by the Euro-sceptic, Tory-controlled council for a brazen fly-posting campaign.
The posters declared, in an echo of the Sex Pistols’ 1970s album cover Never Mind the Bollocks, “Never mind the euros – it’s the hospitals”, but an (alleged) failure to comply with a notice to remove the posters has led Westminster council to opt for legal action.
The standard fine for such offences runs to �1,000 per poster or, in the final resort, prison sentences.
“They thought they were being terribly clever by not putting their name on the posters,” I’m told, “but it didn’t take Sherlock Holmes to find out that they were behind it, as they sent out a press release publicising the campaign.”
Dominic Cummings, BFS’s co-director, remains defiant: “The council should have given us 10 working days to comply with its order,” he says. “I don’t give a f—- if they do prosecute us anyway, it will just give us more publicity.”
A spokesman for Westminster council claims: “It’s quite simple: Business for Sterling failed to remove these posters, after we gave them the requisite 48 hours’ notice. As a result, it’s true to say that they could now face prosecution.”
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Readers wishing a bit of variety on these pages will be pleased to know that the Dodgeblog team has been expanded. Expect to see pieces from writers without the last name Dodge.
Libertarian Samizdata has a great new posting from “Johnny Student” on his experiences in the freedom wars at his US university. This time Johnny gets to see the Dean.
Marty will be back soon with reviews of new the Apocalyptica CD, Symphony X and Backyard Babies.
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