Illegal Campaigning
Leave Campaigners place signs illegally on public land.
This
is a photograph of 17 Leave Campaign posters removed from public land
beside a main road in Cornwall. Three come from a site no longer
convenient for the hit and run signers. The others were all removed from
repeated attempts to sign a single prominent junction. Erecting such
signs on public land is illegal, and invites prosecution by Cornwall
Council. This does not appear to deter a group which is determined to
wantonly tear up our treaties with all the other 27 member states of the
EU, even if it results in causing long term harm to Cornwall.
It seems likely that the people responsible are well aware that their actions are illegal since the signs appear at night. On one occasion this was actually witnessed by one of our members, just before midnight, but the hit and run signer quickly departed in a nearby car and so could not be challenged.
It’s worth noting that two of the larger signs were published by the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. What on earth are these signs even doing here? The Democratic Unionist Party has no platform whatsoever in Cornish politics. How would they like Mebyon Kernow to start planting illegal signs on the verges of Northern Ireland?
Following
the Referendum these illegally placed signs will be returned to Lys
Kernow for disposal. These offences could be, and most likely are being
committed all over Cornwall. The astonishingly unequal quantity of
signage available to the Leave Campaign, underlines how certain very
rich UKIP donors have created an imbalance in this campaign, in which
UKIP and other outers hope they can drown out any other message
excepting their own. Their volunteers seem to have more signs than they
know how to get rid of.
Even at this late stage we can show what we think of these people who see fit to ignore the law in Cornwall. Perhaps our members across the Duchy should keep their eyes open and remove all such illegally placed signs from our land. If nothing else we could have a decent sized bonfire. On second thoughts though, the smoke would probably be too toxic!
This
is a photograph of 17 Leave Campaign posters removed from public land
beside a main road in Cornwall. Three come from a site no longer
convenient for the hit and run signers. The others were all removed from
repeated attempts to sign a single prominent junction. Erecting such
signs on public land is illegal, and invites prosecution by Cornwall
Council. This does not appear to deter a group which is determined to
wantonly tear up our treaties with all the other 27 member states of the
EU, even if it results in causing long term harm to Cornwall.It seems likely that the people responsible are well aware that their actions are illegal since the signs appear at night. On one occasion this was actually witnessed by one of our members, just before midnight, but the hit and run signer quickly departed in a nearby car and so could not be challenged.
It’s worth noting that two of the larger signs were published by the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. What on earth are these signs even doing here? The Democratic Unionist Party has no platform whatsoever in Cornish politics. How would they like Mebyon Kernow to start planting illegal signs on the verges of Northern Ireland?
Following
the Referendum these illegally placed signs will be returned to Lys
Kernow for disposal. These offences could be, and most likely are being
committed all over Cornwall. The astonishingly unequal quantity of
signage available to the Leave Campaign, underlines how certain very
rich UKIP donors have created an imbalance in this campaign, in which
UKIP and other outers hope they can drown out any other message
excepting their own. Their volunteers seem to have more signs than they
know how to get rid of.Even at this late stage we can show what we think of these people who see fit to ignore the law in Cornwall. Perhaps our members across the Duchy should keep their eyes open and remove all such illegally placed signs from our land. If nothing else we could have a decent sized bonfire. On second thoughts though, the smoke would probably be too toxic!
