Thank you if you signed my UKIP petition asking that UKIP drops its diktat to ban writing that “promotes multiculturalism”, and that writers should “promote one British culture”.

I closed the petition with 44 signatures still needed, and I’d collected 55, which isn’t at all bad.

I started the petition after my experiences on Authonomy, Harper Collins’s (or should I say Rupert Murdoch’s) website for aspiring writers.

I should have known better, but when an anonymous sock puppet asked me to take down my novel, in no uncertain terms, because it contained a West Indian and a Chinese character, I realised there was a problem.

This led me to discover UKIP’s diktat, and then I set up a failed petition.

I’m writing about the second world war at the moment.

My website and blog are now only visible by invitation.

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