I've mentioned it earlier than, and I'll say it once more. US Vice President JD Vance was proper when he mentioned free speech in Britain earlier this 12 months.
In gentle of yesterday's brutal rejection of Lucy Connolly's enchantment of her 31-month sentence, I don't learn about you, I discovered that completely outrageous.
Even Boris Johnson has warned that the UK is now quick turning into a police state. And at the moment, I needed to clarify why I feel that is no exaggeration.
There's no denying that Southport was a watershed second within the historical past of our nation. Not solely did we see the likes of Lucy Connolly being handed jail sentences for issues that they wrote on social media, within the privateness of their very own residence.
They got jail sentences longer even than some members of the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, however we even noticed The Nationwide newspaper columnist Allison Pearson being paid a go to by the police, and having a non-crime hate incident recorded in opposition to her.
To not point out these two mother and father who had been arrested by six law enforcement officials after complaining about their native college in a WhatsApp group. Certainly, this revelation has opened up a complete scandal.
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One evaluation has proven that the 43 police forces in England and Wales have, between them, recorded greater than 133,000 of those non-crime hate incidents since they had been launched in 2014.
Only a reminder these are issues the place, should you understand any individual to be offensive, you’ll be able to have considered one of these non-crime hate incidents recorded in opposition to them, regardless of not having to supply any proof.
However the menace to free speech doesn't finish with these Orwellian measures.
The Labour authorities, as I've warned earlier than, is presently engaged on a crude and tight definition of Islamophobia that would additionally pose a critical menace to free speech.
Certainly, an earlier iteration of that definition particularly talked about speaking in regards to the rape gangs for example of Islamophobia.
Simply to offer you some sort of concept about how this Labour authorities feels about free speech, keep in mind, one of many first issues it did upon coming into energy was to try to cease the earlier authorities's free speech legislation for our universities.
Now, the true query, after all, is in what sort of nation does this make any sense in any respect? And what sort of nation is a mom and spouse like Lucy Connolly put in jail for almost three years?
The reply is a rustic that has utterly misplaced its method, that has forgotten that it’s its foundations of free speech, free expression, and particular person liberty.
Not less than, these are the issues that I affiliate with these islands.
Now, there could come a degree the place we’ve got to rely, even on America, to maintain the stress on.