James105

I can do one better and repeat what I said. I'll bold the bit that you had trouble reading to make it easier for you. The UK though was one of the first countries (if not the first) to give citizens a version of freedom of speech (or at least started the process towards free speech) in the Magna Carter over 800 years ago in 1215.

Let's look at the evidence before dismissing this out of hand. In China you can be jailed for social media posts but it depends on how big the reach is. The example in this article someone with 2.5 million followers was jailed for 7 months under their defamation laws (something about criticizing the government. https://www.fairplanet.org/story/china-where-a-post-can-land-you-in-prison/ In the UK Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months for a social media post. On that basis I think it is reasonable to say that it is worse in the UK than China, but not probably not as bad as North Korea.

Thailand has never pretended to have freedom of speech though so its kind of baked into what we expect when we move here. The UK though was one of the first countries (if not the first) to give citizens a version of freedom of speech (or at least started the process towards free speech) in the Magna Carter over 800 years ago in 1215. To lose it and go backwards after all this time is really quite shameful.

No, you cannot say what you want if you are in the UK. Lucy Connolly mistakenly thought she had free speech in the UK and is currently serving a 31 month jail sentence for saying what she wanted to on facebook. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3wkzgpjxvo

Nope, you have lost that too hence why we are still mostly in the dark about Southport.

You are a racist.

It's all very sinister. Australia are implementing age verification for certain free speech platforms (X/Twitter) with minimum age of 16 required. Other platforms the government approves like the heavily censored bluesky will not have age check. Kids with their mobile phones will only be able to access the censored content or government propaganda and that will be all they know up to the age of 16. No doubt the voting age will be reduced to 16 in time and I think we all know which way their indoctrinated brains will vote. UK Labour are looking to see how this works out in Australia before they implement this for the UK too. Not sure how non woke parents will be able to compete with this.

We know what it is about.

Free money conference at the expense of the western taxpayer.

Presumably since she shares genes with her sister Rachel she might also be a formidable chess champion, or perhaps a young prodigy with an equally impressive resume and had equivalent employment to her sisters "Bank of England economist" at just 21 years old. There were stories going around on Twitter that Reeves was the Crufts champion 2024, but since Rachel didn't have this achievement on her CV perhaps it was her sister?

30 million? Is that all? Come on fear propagandists you can do so much better than that. Take a leaf out of the Neil Ferguson book of fear propaganda for examples such as this classic. "Bird flu pandemic 'could kill 150m' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke Actual number it killed....282 people worldwide.

These cases are a bit different though. The defendants in these cases were remanded in custody (for tweets) and had their freedom effectively taken away for an unspecified amount of time. What happened then is that they were encouraged to plead guilty to reduce their sentences to get back their freedom. The charges were inflated as I don't think there has ever been a proven causal link between what someone has posted online and actual violence being committed. Since these are not career criminals and had not had dealings with the law previously they accepted the advice and were given jail sentences for first offenses... for tweets. Had they pleaded not guilty its highly unlikely they would have been convicted, but they still would have been punished by the process anyway as they lost their freedom by being held in custody until the trial... for tweets. The one person I am aware of who did plead not guilty to these inflated nonsensical charges was found not guilty by a jury. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqd9ljgqd9o

I remember watching a news report or a YouTube video or something and someone bought something like butter from a grocery store and it was $7 or something outrageous. GDP is for politicians. Price of goods and services relative to wages (cost of living) is what people really judge an economy on. They clearly judged the Biden administration to be a failure in that regard. Getting rid of the divisive woke nonsense is probably just a welcome bonus for most people.

Indeed. It's no coincidence that Labour in the UK are partnering with Blackrock now and want to keep funding this war using taxpayers money on their behalf. More destruction = more profits. I'm starting to think that the UK Labour government are just trolling at this point to see how far they can push the citizens of the UK before there really is civil war there.

So that inheritance tax she introduced for farmers just about covers the money we send to farmers abroad as foreign aid. They must be doing this on purpose to enrage people as this cannot just be a coincidence.

I disagree. I feel its important to highlight the intolerance of leftists as for too long now this group have been claiming moral high ground when the intolerance is almost exclusively found on the left. Bluesky is no doubt a cesspit of intolerance now since the leftists have moved over there. It really is just as well there is a 2 tier justice system in the UK as the prison population would double overnight if the same standards were applied to leftists as they are to those on the right.

Sherlock Holmes is not required here to ascertain location and political leanings of this individual. Since nobody in the UK would have any idea who Nancy Mace is then it would be a reasonable assumption this is an American. Since leftists all use the same group think echo chambers for LBT2QGS+ issues, climate, Hamas, Trump, face masks, lockdowns etc then it is a safe bet this guy is a leftist and Harris supporter, no doubt with "be kind" in his bio on social media too. Unlike the UK America has freedom of speech so I doubt anything would happen to this guy anyway, other than the appropriate bans from social media.

Sigh. Selling weapons to terrorist supporting countries is not unique to Russia. The UK and USA also do or has done this as it is profitable for the weapons manufacturers. In fact the USA left significant amounts of arms and weapons of war behind free of charge for the Afghanistan terrorists to use which they gratefully accepted. I suspect the women of Afghanistan are not happy about this. Don't think there is a moral high ground you can take on that one. If that is your argument that this is a "fight for freedom" then you need a better one.

The TV tells you this is a "fight for freedom" and Russia bad Ukraine good but really its a territory dispute and "don't park your missiles on my doorstep" dispute that should be settled with negotiations. The problem with that approach is that nobody gets to profit from selling weapons of war, the war mongers don't get to experience the glee of seeing people dying at the behest of their corrupt leaders and its all a bit too peaceful. Fighting for freedom is fine and all when it is actually a fight for freedom. This isn't it.

Or another good idea I have heard that they might implement is that they will require them to actually work 5 days a week in the office compared to the 1 in 5 they do now. This would spark many a resignation I would think.

Easy to call people cowards and demand they fight for freedom when you are at your keyboard and perfectly safe. Would you go and actually fight or be prepared to see close family members go and fight and die over a bit of land in Eastern Europe? I wouldn't be prepared to do that and would rather disputes be settled via negotiation. Ukraine is not 100% innocent in all this and is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. The longer the west funds this war, the longer it goes on, the more people die and the end result will be what it always was going to be, Russia claims back a bit of Russian speaking land from Ukraine.

We are still winning 4-1 though. You have to put up with Piers Morgan, James Corden, John Oliver and Meghans husband Harry. I'm concerned that Trump is going to charge us tariffs on these exports as this one of those examples of unfair trade deals he talks about.

Yet more global embarrassment provided by the UK Labour party. "Summon" Elon Musk. Absolute clown show of a government. It would be nice if Musk could take some time out to educate the Labour party on what free speech means and the historical dangers of authoritarian censorship, and why UK citizens who do not hold the correct views should not be jailed for social media posts, but I highly doubt he will give them the time of day.

I think the correct terminology here is that she Self Identifies as a comedian, in much the same way a man would self identify as a woman. Ok America fine, so long as you keep James Corden, John Oliver and Meghan Markles husband.

If you are a man, there is no real danger. Congratulations. If you are a female, then there is a risk. There are many examples of the thing that never happens happening, here is one. https://apnews.com/article/loudoun-virginia-lawsuit-transgender-bathroom-sexual-assault-a26168568cc20c2aa6cec9bef50e7c3f