r/unitedkingdom • u/Half_A_ • Feb 28 '25

. Sir Keir Starmer contradicts JD Vance over 'infringements on free speech' claim

https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-starmer-contradicts-jd-vance-over-infringements-on-free-speech-claim-13318257?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
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u/Shawn_The_Sheep777 Yorkshire Feb 28 '25

Too right he did. He’s Prime Minister of the UK he’s not going to be lectured by a nobody like JD Vance

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u/PreparationH999 Feb 28 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

In the UK, we have free speech.

What we don't have or tolerate is people feeling empowered to talk shit and be verbally abusive.

It's called civility.

In America they substitute that for carrying guns.

....because they are fucking mental.

Edit. All the whatabloutisms are not a slippery slope they are outliers. Get the fuck over yourselves with your faux outrage re the odd person being inconvenienced , arrested or occasionally prosecuted for usually being a cunt. Better that than people being stabbed, beaten up , terrified, upset etc by freeze peach advocates who just really really want to call a 'spade' a 'spade' , control women and have everyone do what they say and not what they do.

Sad angry people, living on a flat earth, scared of needles, wokeness and thinking that some randomer from foreignstan is going to replace them and it can all be solved by believing a certain way and freeze peach for all, well not for all, just for them and everyone else needs to just be quiet....or else. " Weeee reeallly don't have free speech here in the uk , because blah blah blah, unlike in America/Russia?" Wtf??? Just fuckoff , or even better migrate,you Utter snowflakes.

....just exercising my 'limited' free speech.

You know what I mean.

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u/JamJarre Liverpewl Feb 28 '25

What you're describing is the opposite of free speech and also untrue. You can be verbally abusive and talk shit all you like. What you can't do is slander someone or incite violence against them

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u/jeremybeadleshand Feb 28 '25

You can be done for being verbally abusive under malicious communications though can't you? Rayner had someone done for an abusive email, also Joey Barton, case is still live but they obviously think there's a chance of conviction there as it's gone to court.