The front page article on Seb Coe’s “F**k em” outburst in the London Paper has been removed from their website after Lord Coe apparently called in the lawyers.
According to the Glorious People’s London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, Comrade Coe’s lawyers are thrashing out the wording of a retraction with the London Paper although no retraction has been published as yet.
Wales Online has noted that “It was subsequently removed from the paper’s website, but was commented upon on numerous blogs, as well as being reproduced on other websites, including that of the Campaign for an English Parliament.”
Lord Coe’s lawyers would do well to remember what happened when the News of the World tried to prevent pictures of their “Fake Sheikh” from being published after George Galloway exposed him. Or when Schillings tried to censor Craig Murray’s criticism of Alisher Usanov.
If Comrade Coe didn’t say it then the London Paper will be unable to prove it and will have no choice but to issue a retraction – they certainly don’t have the infite resources of the Olympics propaganda machine with which to defend themselves. However, if he did say it then he should be big enough to admit it. The Scots and Welsh really have very little interest in the Olympics other than the huge wads of Barnett Formula cash that will flow over the border to match the capital expenditure in London.
But if Lord Coe and the Olympic committee think they will be able to use bully boy tactics against anyone that gives them bad publicity then they’re going to find themselves seriously short of bullies.
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