Fulham Chronicle: where has your campaign gone?

A quietly forgotten campaign hasn't been seen round these parts for quite some time. Back in February the Chronicle launched a big campaign, backed with billboard advertising and even an advertising van that drove around both Hammersmith and stopped in front of David Cameron's own front door, calling for the propaganda paper that our Council published with our taxes to be stopped.

The reason, the Chronicle said, and in my view quite rightly was that tax payers money shouldn't be used to fund a "paper" that is actually a political propaganda piece for the local Conservative Party. Articles always seem to have a positive slant for the Council and nobody that isn't a Tory ever seems to get a mention, let alone stories that don't portray the Council in anything other than a glittering light.

So where has the campaign gotten to, after what's coming up for 5 months? Er, precisely nowhere. Only 300 people have signed their petition, which is now quite hard to find on their website so here it is again, and the problems that seem to prevent the paper even being delivered to some readers appear to carry on.

It's not as if there aren't stories to report on - at the time of writing 2,388 of you have read this story alone on the murder of Jaabe Roberts on Askew Road.  We need much more independent journalism, and a lot less propaganda masquerading as "news" and calling itself "H&F News" - and which has been condemned by even fellow Conservative MPs as unacceptable.

So a question for the Chronicle - where has your campaign gone?!