DVLA warns staff they will be monitored for anti-EU comments on social media

Staff at the DVLA have been warned that their emails and private social media accounts will be monitored during the EU referendum campaign to ensure that they are supporting the British government's campaign to stay in the EU.

DVLA management have told their staff that the rules forcing government civil servants to promote the campaign to stay in the EU applies to DVLA staff as well, even in their own time and in a personal capacity. The PCS union is strangely silent on this draconian infringement of the freedom of speech and association of their members at the DVLA.

The remainians are getting desperate ...