'She had a very clear idea what it is we need to do in this country... Get back to basic, decent principles of public life.'
Reform UK's Danny Kruger pays tribute to Ann Widdecombe as senior Reform figures visit Devon to pay respect after her death at the age of 78.
@SpeechUnion Why does the government have to interfear in every asoect of our lives. Protect the boarders, make us prosperous and stop the micro managing. This is goverment by Twitter
📢 A new Free Speech Bill has been proposed.
Barrister Jon Holbrook, a member of the Free Speech Union's Legal Advisory Council, has published an important report for the Prosperity Institute charting the decline of free speech in Britain and setting out a five-point Free Speech Bill to reverse it.
Jon argues that the expansion of vaguely defined speech offences — using terms such as "grossly offensive", "abusive", "insulting" and "stirring up" — has handed governments sweeping powers to decide what people can and cannot say.
His proposed Bill would repeal Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, abolish laws based on the concept of non-violent "hate speech", and restore the principle that free speech protects not only popular opinions, but also those that are contentious, provocative and unwelcome.
As Lord Frost writes in the foreword: "The chilling effect falls on all of us."
This is a welcome intervention as we fight to defend our right to freedom of speech in the UK.
Read the full report below 👇
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Jacob, Tatchel did a decent job for the gay community. He then realised he was redundant so started all this trans activism. There are many types of human but in Ann's case he knew exactly what he was doing. Shallow appology
@TheNeilReport Michael Gove typifies why the Tories cannot be trusted. Between the so called Grandees and the 60% Lib/Dem leaning Tory party. Their 14 years do not look good
@Nigel_Farage Nigel me and my family and friends are 100% behind you. I have just watched clever cloggs michael gove dishing the dirt, and Bedenock. They call these morons the elite, who are they kidding, good kuck Nigel, we will win in the end
@SandyofSuffolk Very well said. These Morons laughling called Elite, will fail look at France and Germany. Burnham the man with no ideas will not help uk. On Kemi she should have cleared 4000 eu laws and cleared none. Well intentioned but her team All lib/dem.nigel the only hope
@mrmarkdolan Mark, llove the show. One thought on Burnhams dress sense. Whilst dressed like a scruff in London, he wont be a target for watch or phone theft. In fact with his image the robbers might give him a phone. A Zelensky lookakike representing the UK is not ideal.
@TiceRichard Just learnt this morning that the Pakistani pervert was senteced 41 years but the judge said serve cocurrently, starmers lawyer pals are everywhere.