Welders can be such ORGANISED people

Still cutting it, despite the lawyer's blatant interference with free speech

by johnofgwent

Now before I go any further, I must confess this isn't entirely all my own work. I was given a few tips of what to put in search engines, but when I got going I got rather anoyed. But as a former girlfriend of mine always said, "dont get mean, get even". Just before she dumped me and took up with a young farmer .....

What would you say if I told you that lawyers up and down the land are doing their damndest right now to climb into blogs, forums, and all the nooks and crannies they can find in cyberspace, armed to the teeth with injunctions, trying desperately to shut down any and all attempts at passing information from person to person. You'd say I've gone mad, wouldn't you.

Well maybe I have. But I'll tell you what, pop over to google and run a search for "uk welder sky news". Tell you what, don't bother I'll do it for you. Here you go.

If you click the link you will see an announcement similar to this:-

The UKWelder Forum is now closed.
An official announcement will be added to the site as soon as possible

Shades of "What's that Skippy?". "Someone's taken the uk welder forum and thrown it down the old mineshaft ?" "Why on earth would they do that ?". And I would say why indeed. what could possibly cause a trade website dedicated to the art of getting your old jalopy through its MOT to go into meltdown.

Finding the answer was not easy. But as the old saying goes, "seek, and you shall find". But this time google will not be your friend, because for some strange reason the searches I ran there didn't bring anything up. Which all sounds a bit chinese to me. As in, try looking for information on the Falun Gong in China and see how far you get. (Probably to their version of Guantanamo Bay, I reckon).

But on a website dedicated to providing a life of a king for those who've told Gordon to shove it, I found the truth. Read it for yourself here and the original article, that does not come up in any google search I try, is here and for those whose ISP is slow as a Virgin Train, I've extracted the essence of the article for you.

It's all about those awfully nice Italian and Portugese chaps over here taking the work that was removed from British firms and handed to companies whose head offices rather enjoy reaping the rewards of the Lisbon Treaty, and who naturally enough see no reason not to import their own workforce leaving ours on the dole. Here's what The Times had to say about the protests, and the speed at which they have gathered pace - a speed not seen since the Fuel Protests gave Tony The Lying Scumbag Blair a bigger case of the shits than a shower in a Sharm El Sheik hotel.

"The government appears to have been caught out by the speed with which the dispute is escalating. Already there appears to be division within its ranks... ...Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, issued a stark warning against moves to protect British jobs from foreign workers... ...His stance was echoed by the Prime Minister...

... In their protest placards and banners, the strikers repeatedly highlighted Brown’s speech about “British jobs for British workers” which was delivered to the Labour party conference in September 2007...

... The prime minister may now be hoist by his own petard because Mandelson’s comments yesterday make it clear that the government has no power to legislate for British jobs...

...Official statistics show that the number of foreign workers has risen by 175,000 since Brown’s speech, while the number of British in work has fallen by 46,000...

...Frank Field, Labour MP for Birkenhead, said: “These strikes are proving to be a double whammy for Gordon Brown. The claim of ‘British jobs for British workers’ looks a pretty empty promise. Worse still, it shows the European Union has us in a double arm lock. British workers are being specifically excluded from working on contracts by European contractors....”

And now here's the interesting bit

"Oil company bosses have taken to trawling the internet in an attempt to keep pace with striking workers who are coordinating action on websites such as ukwelder.com. Yesterday the website discussed possible action at the Isle of Grain - considered vulnerable because “there is only one way in” - and the London Olympics venues. Lawyers acting for Total have shown print-outs of previous posts to the website to a judge. The company alleges that workers have spent several weeks planning the main protest at its refinery at Killingholme where 400 job vacancies will eventually be filled by Italian and Portuguese workers."

And the even more interesting bit

"In an application for an injunction preventing demonstrators from setting foot inside the refinery, solicitors Denton Wilde Sapte stated that the ukwelder.com site revealed plans for “disruptive” action at the Killingholme plant. The application quoted adverse comment on the site’s chatroom...."

And suddenly, not only is the UKWelder.Com forum closed, but all trace of it's discussions - and the links to newspaper articles revealing this denial of freedom of speech seem to have vanished from search engines.

Coincidence ? From a company that co-operates with the chinese government to prevent free exchange of information?

I think not.