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Old 03-01-2025, 11:31   #6114
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
I thought there might be a limit to your naïveté, but apparently not.

https://www.libdems.org.uk/press/rel...it-for-purpose

As someone who has been both a journalist and a press officer, please take my word for it: this story began with that 17 December press release. It is most likely that the Lib Dem media team had the complainant, Robert Latimer, already lined up for any newspaper that contacted them for follow-up information. That is exactly how this works, and most especially that’s how it works at times of year when press officers know papers are short of content and will gratefully received whatever they’re given.
Thanks for sharing the Lib Dem press release of 17th December.

The story evidently began a day earlier on 16th December with the press release from the OEP. Criticising a political party for responding to a press release lacks logic - they're expected to have an opinion on issues like this one.

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The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has concluded that there have been failures to comply with environmental law by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Environment Agency (EA) and Ofwat following an investigation into the regulation of network combined sewer overflows (CSOs).
https://www.theoep.org.uk/news/oep-f...tory-oversight

I'm sure that any journalists looking to write on the story would have their quotable contacts lined up to approach and that political parties would facilitate this if it advanced their agendas.
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