Rupert Lowe
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No, I think it's a very fair question.
And I wonder, I mean, has everybody had life too good?
Are they prepared to stir their stumps and actually contribute?
Because there's no way that a few valiant people are going to be able to deliver this.
This has to be a mass movement.
It has to be a spontaneous movement.
I think it is happening.
I think it's beginning.
I think we can see through our social media, we can see that people are concerned.
And I don't think it's a big jump from being concerned to actually doing something about it.
Well, as you and I know, free speech is the absolute key to a functioning democracy.
Yes, you created it.
We created it.
This country created free speech.
We created it, and it's so important to everything.
We recently had a debate in Parliament because with our membership now we can, in Parliament you can have a debate or force a debate in Westminster Hall with 100,000 signatures on an e-petition.
So to your point, the best example of this is probably Lucy Connolly who was caught up in the Southport in the whole sort of,
emotional upheaval of the Southport killings, where three young girls were stabbed to death.
And I think the country spontaneously reacted.
Let Labour say it was some sort of right-wing planned... Only right-wingers object to kids being killed.