Matt Goodwin: “The UK’s Spiralling Free Speech Crisis.”

/ Mike Buchanan

Interesting.

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4 thoughts on “Matt Goodwin: “The UK’s Spiralling Free Speech Crisis.””

  1. Actually I derive some hope from Graham Linehan’s comment about his treatment.

    “The male officers were mostly polite but clearly nonplussed by the politics of it all—just doing their jobs, however insane those jobs had become. The female officers seemed more tuned in to what was actually happening.” 

    Which suggests its not the “hands on” officers who are deciding on this nonsense but their “fast tracked” senior officers who are pursuing such petty vendettas to shut people up. One can see this from the “non crime hate incident reporting”, supported by the College of Policing and some COs and yet declared unlawful by the courts. The hopeful bit is that its relatively few politicised, fast tracked officers that are behind this not “the Police” as a whole.

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      • I tend to agree, eg. Nottinghamshire’s female CO who is championing “misogyny” as a non crime hate incident to be recorded …. stuff like “looking creepy” or “unwanted compliments”. However I read in the Standard the Met Commissioner stating the obvious, the statutes that measure “threat” or “harm” by what people feel rather than what is logical have created a big area of discretion which is filled by ideologues in the Police with their favourite causes. The hope part is a more robust Government can and will sack such Officers and repeal the notion that offense is anything anyone says it is.

        One of the tragedies is that the public have never understood the “Police and Crime Commissioner” role. An elected person who should keep their Police Force’s focus on the priorities of their public. They are elected on a very low poll and generally seem to get away with having little public profile or media scrutiny. Sometime it works, here Andy Burnham has that office and when the last CO started a campaign basically saying people should just look after themselves and bother the police less, he was “let go” and one rather more robust engaged. Showing it can be done. I notice in the US incumbents in a similar role were soon out of office, often to rival Democrat challengers, as it became obvious that “defunding the police” meant crime rose. As it is I doubt many know about Police and Crime Commissioners at all and few know who theirs is.

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