Gibraltar: More Lies from ‘The Sun’ Newspaper
After being coerced into a retraction by the swift action of the British National Party’s Media Rebuttal Unit over their recent fake “BNP Squaddie” story, The Sun has printed another lie stating that Chairman Nick Griffin wants to surrender Gibraltar.
The full text of the complaint is below, more details in due course.
THE SUN COMPLAINT:
The Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice clause 1 reads as follows: “Accuracy. i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.”
In an article published on 30th November, headlined “BNP: Give Gibraltar Back,” The Sun made the following factually inaccurate and misleading claim: “THE BNP would hand the key outpost of Gibraltar to Spain in an astonishing betrayal of its 30,000 British citizens.”
Both the headline and the quote are false.
Our chairman, Nick Griffin MEP, never said anything of the sort. The closest thing Mr Griffin said to any of these false claims is that he would prefer to see a Spanish Gibraltar rather than a Muslim Gibraltar.
His exact words were: “Taking into account the geographical situation of Gibraltar and the Muslim threat on its door, I would prefer to see a Spanish flag fly in Gibraltar before an Islamic one.”
This hardly amounts to “surrender” or a “betrayal.” Mr Griffin’s words have been distorted and twisted into a monstrous inaccuracy. The Sun should not be allowed to mislead the public over what a democratically elected Member of the European Parliament has said or not said. They must report the truth.
We demand that The Sun retract this story and print a correction in the same prominent fashion in which they have printed the article in question.
Cllr Paul Golding, BNP Media Rebuttal Unit.
