Do you feel like you've got more or less freedom of speech under Prime Minister Keir Starmer?
The Americans think we have a massive problem over here.
The Vice President raised it again to the Prime Minister's face in the Oval Office. And now, the Americans are saying no free trade, without free speech.
If they mean that, then the idea of a Keir Starmer Stasi is going to make us all poorer.
In a statement posted on X, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, & Labour (DRL), within the US state department, said: "US-UK relations share a mutual respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. However, as Vice-President Vance has said, we are concerned about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom.
"While recently in the UK, DRL senior adviser Sam Samson met with Livia Tossici-Bolt, who faces criminal charges for offering conversation within a legally prohibited ‘buffer zone’ at an abortion clinic. We are monitoring her case. It is important that the UK respect and protect freedom of expression."
Livia Tossici-Bolt has been charged and hauled before a court for holding up a sign outside an abortion clinic saying "here if you want to talk" which allegedly breached a protected buffer zone outside the facility.
Ms Tossicini-Bolt has pleaded not guilty to the charges. She claimed she had not breached the public spaces protection order and that she had the right to offer consensual conversations under the Human Rights Act. She's not the only one, police seem to have been locking people up for this for years.
The Prime Minister would deny that there's an issue with Free speech in Britain. But I think he's wrong.
We've got people serving years in prison for social media posts during the summer disorder, which the Prime Minister appeared to demand from judges.
A former Royal Marine was arrested and charged because of his comments. Jamie Michael has since been cleared of all charges, but do you know who reported him to police? A Welsh Labour Party staff member.
The new Employment Rights Bill, put forward by Labour, potentially lets bar staff, quote, take "all reasonable steps" to prevent harassment of staff - which apparently could apply to overheard conversation between customers - if they overhear 'offensive banter'.
We already have six pubs a week closing in Britain, and now because Tabatha and Tarquin are offended we might lose the rest of them. The irony is that it seems a Pakistani grooming gang and a transexual pedophile can walk into a bar, but if you make a nasty remark about them then the owner of the Dog and Duck gets sued by a snowflake barmaid.
Police detectives knocked on a grandmother's door apparently because she criticised local Labour politicians. Hertfordshire Police knocked on the door of some parents because they dared to criticise their child's school in a private WhatsApp group.
They sent six police officers round and the parents spent eight hours in custody, and since, the police have since concluded that no further action would be taken. Then, can you guess what happened when the local MP, Oliver Dowden, who happens to be the former Deputy Prime Minister, spoke out in their favour?
He claims the police said they'd look at doing him for harassment as well! And this is before we've spoken about the Hate Crime Bill the SNP brought into force in Scotland - which could criminalise what you say in your own home.
Not even toddlers are immune. A toddler was accused of being transphobic and booted out of their nursery school. It's all mental.
It's all well and good Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, who is very lucky to still have a job after being caught up in a cash for croissants row that saw business people pay £3,000 to have breakfast with him, and then, astonishingly, was forced to apologise for misleading his constituents over his qualifications as a lawyer, we have free speech over here, everything's fine and it wasn't even mentioned in trade talks but he, and the Prime Minister, need to wake up.
The world thinks there is a problem with free speech in Britain, Brits think there is a problem with free speech in Britain - the only people who don't seem to are the ones wearing a red rosette.
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The Americans think we have a massive problem over here.
The Vice President raised it again to the Prime Minister's face in the Oval Office. And now, the Americans are saying no free trade, without free speech.
If they mean that, then the idea of a Keir Starmer Stasi is going to make us all poorer.
In a statement posted on X, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, & Labour (DRL), within the US state department, said: "US-UK relations share a mutual respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. However, as Vice-President Vance has said, we are concerned about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom.
"While recently in the UK, DRL senior adviser Sam Samson met with Livia Tossici-Bolt, who faces criminal charges for offering conversation within a legally prohibited ‘buffer zone’ at an abortion clinic. We are monitoring her case. It is important that the UK respect and protect freedom of expression."
Livia Tossici-Bolt has been charged and hauled before a court for holding up a sign outside an abortion clinic saying "here if you want to talk" which allegedly breached a protected buffer zone outside the facility.
Ms Tossicini-Bolt has pleaded not guilty to the charges. She claimed she had not breached the public spaces protection order and that she had the right to offer consensual conversations under the Human Rights Act. She's not the only one, police seem to have been locking people up for this for years.
The Prime Minister would deny that there's an issue with Free speech in Britain. But I think he's wrong.
We've got people serving years in prison for social media posts during the summer disorder, which the Prime Minister appeared to demand from judges.
A former Royal Marine was arrested and charged because of his comments. Jamie Michael has since been cleared of all charges, but do you know who reported him to police? A Welsh Labour Party staff member.
The new Employment Rights Bill, put forward by Labour, potentially lets bar staff, quote, take "all reasonable steps" to prevent harassment of staff - which apparently could apply to overheard conversation between customers - if they overhear 'offensive banter'.
We already have six pubs a week closing in Britain, and now because Tabatha and Tarquin are offended we might lose the rest of them. The irony is that it seems a Pakistani grooming gang and a transexual pedophile can walk into a bar, but if you make a nasty remark about them then the owner of the Dog and Duck gets sued by a snowflake barmaid.
Police detectives knocked on a grandmother's door apparently because she criticised local Labour politicians. Hertfordshire Police knocked on the door of some parents because they dared to criticise their child's school in a private WhatsApp group.
They sent six police officers round and the parents spent eight hours in custody, and since, the police have since concluded that no further action would be taken. Then, can you guess what happened when the local MP, Oliver Dowden, who happens to be the former Deputy Prime Minister, spoke out in their favour?
He claims the police said they'd look at doing him for harassment as well! And this is before we've spoken about the Hate Crime Bill the SNP brought into force in Scotland - which could criminalise what you say in your own home.
Not even toddlers are immune. A toddler was accused of being transphobic and booted out of their nursery school. It's all mental.
It's all well and good Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, who is very lucky to still have a job after being caught up in a cash for croissants row that saw business people pay £3,000 to have breakfast with him, and then, astonishingly, was forced to apologise for misleading his constituents over his qualifications as a lawyer, we have free speech over here, everything's fine and it wasn't even mentioned in trade talks but he, and the Prime Minister, need to wake up.
The world thinks there is a problem with free speech in Britain, Brits think there is a problem with free speech in Britain - the only people who don't seem to are the ones wearing a red rosette.
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