Police in Leicester arrested at least five journalists under the Terrorism Act while they were reporting on a protest outside a drone factory owned by an Israeli arms company.
The journalists were detained for two hours last Thursday at a UAV Tactical Systems factory owned by Elbit Systems, which makes weapons that are used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
It depends what you want to be free to speak about.
“All the environmental stuff is false and climate change isn’t real” = This is acceptable free speech in the UK.
“COVID was all lies and isn’t real and everyone who died was faking it” = This is acceptable free speech in the UK.
“Let’s kill foreign people and sink their boats so they all die” = This is acceptable free speech in the UK.
“Trans women aren’t real women and they shouldn’t be allowed to use public toilets, vote or have jobs” = This is acceptable free speech in the UK
“We should form a mob, burn down half of our local city centre, destroy scores of local small businesses, drag foreign-looking people out of cars, sexually assault any foreign-looking women we see and basically trash an entire postcode of a city causing fear and terror to everyone who lives there” = This is acceptable free speech in the UK, and what poor, adorable, misunderstood patriots they are.
“I’m not 100% convinced that everything Israel does is entirely perfect” = This is NOT acceptable free speech in the UK. You are a terrorist, we will send 12 officers to kick the shit out of you, and then you will be arrested and locked up for months without trial, then convicted as a terrorist.
Yup, this is it. This is straight up it. Even the “Liberal” press spout fat right talking points unchallenged while you can’t even show someone wearing a T shirt with “Protect the Dolls” on it on TV.