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Cunt regurgitates speech by other cunt.
This column does not intend to get into the arguments about how best to end the war in Ukraine.
Not surprised there. Next.
The Vice President said what he worried about was the ‘threat from within’ – a bigger danger that the military threat from Russia.
That might be debatable, but he struck a raw nerve.
So, are we too tolerant, or too restrictive? Seems we're both.
The Vice President claimed that governments across Europe are encouraging people to report those suspected of ‘thought crime’ to the authorities.
While his allegations were not entirely accurate, he has a broader point.
"Not entirely accurate" being journalese for utter bollocks.
Since the introduction of the Online Safety Act in October 2023, almost 300 people have been charged with ‘speech crime’ on social media.
While no one disputes that those who incite violence deserve exemplary punishment, those who express controversial opinions which some find ‘offensive’ should not be facing jail.
Fresh law also makes it an offence to spread ‘disinformation’ – which would have extended to anyone who, at the time, maintained the now widely accepted fact that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan and not from a dodgy pangolin at a downtown wet market.
If you criminalise ‘disinformation’, who gets to decide what’s true and what isn’t? It opens the door to state censorship.
I tell it like it is. You express sincerely held but controversial opinions. They incite violence.
By the way, has your Geordie friend Black Mike, of "give us a stick and I'll kill it" fame, offered to euthanise any goths recently?
Our newspapers and broadcasters are already tightly regulated, unlike our counterparts in the US. Cancel culture is rampant, with people losing their jobs for expressing ‘inappropriate’ views.
How come you're still in a job, then?
Washington ambassador and Foreign Secretary who have previously slandered the President as a racist, sexist, white supremacist.
Pretty fucking accurate, actually.
So the PM would do well to heed Vance’s speech, which despite its fairly hostile tone towards Europe in general still displayed a residual warmth towards Britain, which Trump himself shares.
Residual warmth, as in "get back here, bitch".
He’s also right about shutting people out of the political process and closing down elections. That’s precisely what Deputy PM Ginge Rayner is doing as she creates a new breed of super-councils even more remote from the people they will be elected to serve.
OK, first of all, what elections have been cancelled? Second, the regional assemblies offer an opportunity to invest on a bigger level than county councils currently can. You know, do the 'levelling up' that'll sort everything. Third, as pointed out frequently, getting involved in the political process is piss easy, as long as you're prepared to get off your arse.
What you mean is that you have to compete with all the opposing opinions now.
But on my more recent visits to the States, I’ve encounted a change in attitudes.
More than once, I’ve been asked: ‘What the hell is going on with you guys?’
I get that too, from my Dutch and Danish friends. For a few years, now. Ever since 24/06/2016.
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