Re:UK police ask blogger to remove UKIP tweets
by nailer on Sunday May 11, 2014 @06:48PM
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The post (if by 'poster' you meant post) is confusing. UKIP say they're cancelling house building on green belt land, someone else says there's 'numerous refs', the someone else says no source was found. It seems to be pointing out that the of the claims against UKIP aren't referenced, but it's being tweeted by a Green Party supporter.
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Re:UK police ask blogger to remove UKIP tweets
by A_COMPUTER on Sunday May 11, 2014 @06:55PM
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After digging through his twitter stream, it looks like he took an existing image and tried to add references for the claims.
Re:UK police ask blogger to remove UKIP tweets
by tomelders on Sunday May 11, 2014 @07:08PM
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He did. But as he mentions in his post, he only references official UKIP sources.
The unreferenced ones are contentious, but from my understanding of UKIP's plans, they're broadly correct.
ah, he confirmed on twitter last night: https://twitter.com/MichaelAbberton/status/46560706028634521... so I think what happened is that the original image was produced, someone annotated it with unverified info, and Michael Abberton then double checked this and annotated it further with the bold text to note any claims which couldn't be confirmed.
I think that he's confirming that some claims aren't verified because he's being honest, irrespective of party ties.