Essex Lion.

Residents of the UK county of Essex are being warned to stay indoors as apparently there is a lion on the loose. This comes just days after it was announced that Essex council will not be prosecuting all but 14 of the 150 or so people arrested during the eviction of the Dale Farm gypsy/traveller site. Therefore the lion story is an attempt to put Essex on the map to promote discussion about the Dale Farm eviction in light of the Julian Assange case and the para-Olympics.

That should be a very short discussion because in order to bring Essex back into compliance the Dale Farm site needs to be re-instated with full planning permission and the council repairing all it's vandalism. All prosecutions against people who resisted the unlawful eviction need to be dropped/overturned and prosecutions need to be begun against anyone who authorised or took part in the forcible transfer of an ethnic group.

09:40 on 27/8/12.

Edited at around 15:15 on 27/8/12 to add;

Essex police have now called off their search for the Essex lion presumably because they were getting sick and tired of journalists asking about the 'Lion Hunt' a phrase that can be pronounced to sound a lot like 'lying c*nt.' I also think the little stunt was designed to draw attention to a UK TV show called "The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE)" This is an example of a 'soft-scripted' or 'structured reality' show. This format involves taking members of the public and filming them in situations that the producers have set up presumably in an effort to prove to us all just how talented soap opera actors really are. Britain claims to have invented this format and keeps trying to export it across the world. Of course that claim has been dented somewhat by the news that "Snooki" from the much older US structured reality show "Jersey Shore" gave birth to a baby boy yesterday (27/8/12) morning.

15:25 on 27/8/12.