Can free speech survive Keir Starmer?

[ShahdagMountains]

As a free-speech campaigner, I was deeply alarmed by the prospect of a Labour government. But it turns out, I wasn’t nearly worried enough.

The unrelenting assault on this essential human right since Sir Keir Starmer entered Downing Street in July has shocked even the most jaundiced of observers. Who could have predicted this time last year that scores of people would be prosecuted for offensive speech on social media following a brutal knife attack? That two police officers would turn up at the door of an award-winning journalist on Remembrance Sunday to interview her about a year-old tweet that she’d deleted within hours? That Britain’s record on freedom of expression would be so bad that it has turned us into a global laughing stock? All of which means that when speculating about what will become of free speech in 2025, we should assume the worst.

Pubs will have to employ ‘banter bouncers’ to police the conversations of customers to make sure no one is saying anything risqué that could be overheard by a member of staff. Hotels will have to stop anyone entering the lobby wearing a ‘Woman: Adult Human Female’ t-shirt. Football clubs will have to ban anyone who shouts ‘Are you blind?’ at a linesman, in case they’re overheard by a partially sighted steward. In short, the chilling effect that the Equality Act has had on workplaces, in which everyone is constantly looking over their shoulder to make sure they’re not overheard, will be extended to every area of our lives.

Can free speech survive Keir Starmer?

From ‘banter bouncers’ in pubs to Islamic blasphemy codes, state censorship is set to explode in 2025.

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[The Duke]

Starmer sent half a dozen operatives paid with UK tax money to the US for months to campaign against Trump.
That guy's a real douche, the sooner UK is shed of him, the better off they will be.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Starmer sent half a dozen operatives paid with UK tax money to the US for months to campaign against Trump.
That guy's a real douche, the sooner UK is shed of him, the better off they will be.

I agree. But to be fair, Obama poked his nose in Brexit.

 

[The Duke]

I agree. But to be fair, Obama poked his nose in Brexit.

Did not know that, but he's a shithead.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Did not know that, but he's a shithead.

I watched him say it: if Britain left the EU, it would go “to the back of the queue”. Regarding trade with the United States.

 

[The Duke]

I watched him say it: if Britain left the EU, it would go “to the back of the queue”. Regarding trade with the United States.

They did good to leave the EU. That's a UN entity anyway.

 

[Arlette]

As a free-speech campaigner, I was deeply alarmed by the prospect of a Labour government. But it turns out, I wasn’t nearly worried enough.

The unrelenting assault on this essential human right since Sir Keir Starmer entered Downing Street in July has shocked even the most jaundiced of observers. Who could have predicted this time last year that scores of people would be prosecuted for offensive speech on social media following a brutal knife attack? That two police officers would turn up at the door of an award-winning journalist on Remembrance Sunday to interview her about a year-old tweet that she’d deleted within hours? That Britain’s record on freedom of expression would be so bad that it has turned us into a global laughing stock? All of which means that when speculating about what will become of free speech in 2025, we should assume the worst.

Pubs will have to employ ‘banter bouncers’ to police the conversations of customers to make sure no one is saying anything risqué that could be overheard by a member of staff. Hotels will have to stop anyone entering the lobby wearing a ‘Woman: Adult Human Female’ t-shirt. Football clubs will have to ban anyone who shouts ‘Are you blind?’ at a linesman, in case they’re overheard by a partially sighted steward. In short, the chilling effect that the Equality Act has had on workplaces, in which everyone is constantly looking over their shoulder to make sure they’re not overheard, will be extended to every area of our lives.

Can free speech survive Keir Starmer?

From ‘banter bouncers’ in pubs to Islamic blasphemy codes, state censorship is set to explode in 2025.

www.spiked-online.com

The Brits don't tolerate online threats.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

As a free-speech campaigner, I was deeply alarmed by the prospect of a Labour government. But it turns out, I wasn’t nearly worried enough.

The unrelenting assault on this essential human right since Sir Keir Starmer entered Downing Street in July has shocked even the most jaundiced of observers. Who could have predicted this time last year that scores of people would be prosecuted for offensive speech on social media following a brutal knife attack? That two police officers would turn up at the door of an award-winning journalist on Remembrance Sunday to interview her about a year-old tweet that she’d deleted within hours? That Britain’s record on freedom of expression would be so bad that it has turned us into a global laughing stock? All of which means that when speculating about what will become of free speech in 2025, we should assume the worst.

Pubs will have to employ ‘banter bouncers’ to police the conversations of customers to make sure no one is saying anything risqué that could be overheard by a member of staff. Hotels will have to stop anyone entering the lobby wearing a ‘Woman: Adult Human Female’ t-shirt. Football clubs will have to ban anyone who shouts ‘Are you blind?’ at a linesman, in case they’re overheard by a partially sighted steward. In short, the chilling effect that the Equality Act has had on workplaces, in which everyone is constantly looking over their shoulder to make sure they’re not overheard, will be extended to every area of our lives.

Can free speech survive Keir Starmer?

From ‘banter bouncers’ in pubs to Islamic blasphemy codes, state censorship is set to explode in 2025.

www.spiked-online.com

You do realise that the police were using conservative laws dont you ?
Starmer does not oversee every arrest in the UK.
many tory laws need to be repealed. In particular the ones tarfetting climate protestors or palestinian sympathisers.
The tories passed a raft of restrictive laaws every year and they need to be dumped.
In particular the conservative offence of walking slowly. That is my favourite conservative law.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

You do realise that the police were using conservative laws dont you ?
Starmer does not oversee every arrest in the UK.
many tory laws need to be repealed. In particular the ones tarfetting climate protestors or palestinian sympathisers.
The tories passed a raft of restrictive laaws every year and they need to be dumped.
In particular the conservative offence of walking slowly. That is my favourite conservative law.

Well you’re against them, whatever they do, That’s a given. No thought required.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Well you’re against them, whatever they do, That’s a given. No thought required.

Anybody with any sense is anti tory laws. On a basic level if you are increasing sentences and making new ones then build some prisons to hold people.
That is not advanced thinking. But maybe you sont understand that simple fact ?

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Anybody with any sense is anti tory laws. On a basic level if you are increasing sentences and making new ones then build some prisons to hold people.
That is not advanced thinking. But maybe you sont understand that simple fact ?

^ Meaningless word salad.

 

[Ringo]

 

[ShahdagMountains]

In total, David Lammy’s Foreign Office spent £521,525 on “restaurants and bars” in the first FOUR MONTHS of the Labour government. The venues they wined and dined in hidden from you. They criticised the Tories for largesse, as soon as they’re in power they act like Bourbon Kings!