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Thursday 12 July 2012

Eric Pickles and Propaganda

I see that once again Eric Pickles has been complaining about propaganda in local government.  In fact, local Councils follow strict restrictions and the publi8city they do produce is non-partisan and often legally mandated.  In contrast, Pickles own department is currently embarked on a major propaganda campaign promoting the Right to Buy.  This has included paying for posters around the country, but even gone to the extent of giving Councils a standard template letter to send to Council tenants.  A striking example of Eric Pickles' own politicisation of government publicity and contempt for local democrary i practice as opposed to rhetoric.

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