‘The reason I’m standing on this soap box is because it’s the only box the Workers Party is likley to get on around here’, Lily Kerr told a protest outside the BBC in Belfast this afternoon.

The protest was called  in response not only to the  BBC’s paucity of coverage for smaller parties but because of the implications the policy has for democracy, public discussion and public service broadcasting.

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