George Galloway

underneath their feet if such a war were to take place.

So the proximate reason, insofar as one can glean it from four hours of circumlocution, is that I oppose the British government's policy towards Russia.

Now, I might be right on that.

I might be wrong on that.

But as John Stuart Mill points out, if you deny a point of view the right to be heard, the loser is not the person with that point of view, but the rest of us, because we will not hear

what might actually turn out to have been good advice.

But that's not the way these social Democrats, social Democrats, Christian Democrats all across Europe have put the lights out on freedom of speech, lights out on democracy.

They're interfering in elections.

They're canceling other people's elections.

They are throttling free and independent media.

They are bankrolling stooge media to try and crowd out.

threatening the social media platforms with sanction and even closure if they don't kowtow to the prevailing orthodoxy.

And I'm afraid Britain is in the vanguard of all of that.

And again, I make this point.

I'm not saying this because I hate Britain, but because I love it.

It is an ache for me to be outside of my country all of this time.

I have children there.

I have a house there.

I have a very keen addiction to the English premiership in football, soccer, you call it.

I'm torn from all of that.