City of Edinburgh council ban posters

[lucky]

Edinburgh council have banned political parties from putting posters on lamp posts for next year years council election. For me any form of political censorship should not be tolerated but probably more important is how they find the time to debate this issue at a full council meeting rather than doing the business of running Edinburgh.


On a side note Councillor Milligan, daft Jambo and ex provost, came out with a great line when attacking the Tory councillor behind the motion ''If I was Councillor Buchan, I might take a different view. Vote Buchan Conservative is not a winning slogan'' :thumbsup:

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/City-bans-election-placards-despite.6778971.jp

[Hibs Class]

I don't think this is censorship - rather posters are unsightly and parties are slow to take the posters down.

[tony higgins]

Weegie land ditched the posters a few years back.

Believe the tories held the record of longest poster on display without being touched in Glasgow Springburn, 1992 to 1997, think it was only taken down because another tory boy from London had a go at being laughed at.

Kinda miss the cranks who used to write into the local paper weeks after every election complaining.

[heretoday]

It's always the same posters isn't it? I don't think they do any harm and they at least remind people there is an election on, not that it seems to bring them out in droves each time. As long as the parties undertake to remove them post-election what's the problem?

In some foreign countries they write on walls during elections. They seem to get more exercised by politics. We're too busy sat watching No Talent TV and drinking cheap lager to care much.

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I don't think this is censorship - rather posters are unsightly and parties are slow to take the posters down.


Yup.

Mind you, the "Vote Labour, Vote Whitefield" posters around the Caldera disappeared like snow off a dyke after the Holyrood elections last month. :devil: