Free speech bill published in UK as local gov'ts 'ban flying national flag & English flag | Eastern NC Now
Adam Smith Institute offers a free speech option
Americans need to watch the battles over free speech in Europe because we have leftists here in our own country who want to follow their authoritarian playbook.
The Adam Smith Institute, a classical liberal organization, has put together an Anglo-American team of attorneys who drafted a British Free Speech Bill, which they have published and offered to any party to push forward in Parliament. The bill is drafted to end what they call "Britain's sophisticated censorship framework" including specific repeal of a number of laws allowing censorship and to set out a new standard of free speech.
The bill seeks to "recognize and restore the ancient liberty of free speech, to protect expression by the public". It sets out clear standards for free speech that the government could not interfere with. If passed, it would give the UK something like our First Amendment.
Ironically, it was British author George Orwell, in his novels "1984_ and "Animal Farm" as well as through other writings who was an early observer of the drift against free speech after the Second World War.
This comes as some left-leaning local governments in England are trying to end the flying of the flag of England, and even the Union Jack national flag, claiming they are "divisive". The Oxfordshire County Council, run by the Liberal Democrat Party has even threated criminal and civil actions against citizens for displaying the St. George's Cross flag of England or the Union Jack national flag. This comes in response to a Raise the Colors campaign by conservatives, that the county council claims is "an act of intimidation and division."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/liberal-council-uk-moves-ban-intimidating-national-flags
If the Democrats get back in control, America is going to be facing the same thing.
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Stan, there is a Vote Calculus organization in the UK that has a pretty good track record. They take national polls and look what the resulting swing in each Parliamentary constituency would do. On a recent national poll, they projected a ReformUK majority in Parliament of over 100 seats over all other parties combined.
In partial local elections last year, ReformUK won ten of the fifteen counties that voted, as well as two of the four mayors that were elected. The same day they won a special election for what had been a "safe" Labour seat in parliament. Indeed, they are so viable that Labour has been trying to delay the next set of local elections on some sham theories. |
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I know of Nigel; however, I did not realize that he had become this viable.
Can he form a government? |
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Stan, they have one. His name is Nigel Farage, Member of Parliament and leader of the Reform Party. Reform now has a double digit lead over other parties in British polls.
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The Brits have gone bonkers. They need a Donald Trump to straighten our their weird, weird ways.
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How asinine! Banning the national flag so as not to upset the illegal aliens who should not even be there in the first place. I'll bet they let the illegal aliens fly all the flags of their own counties that they want, as well as the Alphabet People flying all the "pride" flags they want. Just not the national flag or England's flag.
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