Liz Truss
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But successive governments have legislated to take away our freedom of speech and to introduce things like hate crime laws.
Correct.
But if you say the wrong thing in Britain, according to Keir Starmer, you get put in jail.
So we had Lucy Connolly who was jailed for a tweet and she was jailed for 31 months.
And what he's also doing is banning people he doesn't agree with from entering the country, including elected members of the European Parliament.
This is an attempt to suppress debate and suppress speech.
And yes, because we don't have a First Amendment in Britain, it makes it easier for the government to do it.
They've used legislation that's been passed over the last 30 years to prosecute people.
But even in America, there were attempts to suppress speech.
If you look at what Biden did with the tech industry, trying to take people off things like Twitter, there's the same tendency of the left across the world.
It's in the Democrat Party in America.
It's in the EU.
It's in the Labour Party here in Britain to not deal with the problems, but to stop people talking about it.
We are living in some kind of weird version of East Germany.
But that is how bad it is.
People are banned from coming into the country.
People are jailed for saying things.
Some people have suggested these speakers for tomorrow sort of just jumped in a boat and then they'd be absolutely fine.
And, you know, there's such a two tier nature of the way all this is being dealt with.
So there's also a rally happening tomorrow in the Palestinian cause.