East End Lies: The Review

So Luftur and his mates are conducting a review of NuLab's precious darling 'East End Life' the multi-million pound propaganda vehicle designed to cause difficulty for independent publications by replicating [that's re-plic-at-ing, look it up council bois] their structure and stealing their advertising.

Fact: We have never had an honest and accurate figure for how much EEL costs, but it's in the region of £2Million per year, this in one of the most deprived boroughs. Each figure usually misses out some component of cost, still Brown had as much of a head for figures as boy George, our current 'chancellor'

Fact: Any money it 'makes' misuses officer's time [they are not ad salespeople, in as much as they are anything] to tout for advertising.

Fact: That advertising is at the expense of independent media in and around the borough, English language and other.

Fact: EEL contravenes the council code for publicity on several counts, in each issue. The contraventions are relevance, balance and use for personal messages.

Fact: The [bonjour Orwell, that's a wr-iter, council bois] 'harmony' section probably should face CRE sanctions because of its unbalanced composition.

Fact: There has never been a negative story about the council in EEL, see my remarks about balance.

Fact: No-one with over 8 year old english language literacy skills believes anything in it anyway. Oh, I've just looked at that sentence, so lots of people believe it then.

Facr: It is a mark of contempt, an affront to local democracy and huge waste of time and money.