Police are 'scooping up Britons' over social media posts, Bleksley claims

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Former Scotland Yard Detective Peter Bleksley has hit out at Britain's police force for "pandering to snowflakes" and the "tyrannical mob rule" after US President Donald Trump latest intervention into free speech.US diplomats from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) travelled to London in March to "affirm the importance of freedom of expression in the UK and across Europe", according to The Telegraph.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00I think that things have gone a little bit too far in this country.

00:05The fact of the matter is that any well-trained journalist does know that free speech does have to exist in a certain environment

00:13where you can't be defamatory and you can't incite racial hatred or violence.

00:18We know that because we're trained to recognise it.

00:21But what's happened here in this country is we've chucked the baby out with the bath water.

00:24What's happened now is that everyone is starting to react to fairly, not innocent phrases exactly,

00:33but we're starting to become really obsessive about things that don't actually matter

00:38and people should be allowed to speak about.

00:40Lucy Connolly, she's a case in point.

00:43If you think that the actual Prime Minister now is leading the charge, along with Shabam Mahmood,

00:49to actually shorten jail sentences or have no jail sentences for some criminals,

00:55and yet Lucy Connolly is in prison for 31 months and loses her appeal,

00:59you've got to start asking yourself, what is going on here?

01:02And also, can I just add, Paul Richards, Keir Starmer asked about Lucy Connolly.

01:06He says, oh, sorry, I'm not across the case.

01:07Come on, pull the other leg.

01:10By the way, I don't want to just talk about Lucy Connolly.

01:12This is free speech in Britain.

01:14Free speech, in my book, does not exist in Britain.

01:17Well, technically you're right, of course, because we can't just say whatever we like.

01:22We can't walk into a crowded theatre and shout fire, right?

01:25And I can't say so-and-so's a paedophile or so-and-so's a terrorist without, you know,

01:30there being some evidence for that.

01:31We can't just say whatever we like, anywhere we like.

01:34We have boundaries and rules.

01:36And I'm, you know, I would say to the Americans coming over and lecturing us

01:40on how to run the place, you know, they display total ignorance of our system so often.

01:45If you vox pop American citizens, they don't know where England is.

01:49They think our Prime Minister is King Charles.

01:51They think Africa's a country, you know.

01:52Well, you think they're stupid.

01:53Yeah, a lot of them are very poorly educated about the world.

01:55Well, it's a country of 300-plus million people, Paul.

01:57So why are they coming here and telling us what to do?

02:00And you said they're intervening.

02:01They're not intervening, Ben.

02:02They're interfering and they need to butt out.

02:04OK, Peter Blexey?

02:06Let's talk about some of the rules that Paul's just brought up, OK?

02:09Namely, the Malicious Communications Act of 1988, under which British police are currently

02:16arresting about 30 people a day for posts on social media and the such like.

02:21Now, that piece of legislation came into being to largely deal with poison pen letters.

02:29Now, there's an old expression which three of us are certainly familiar with.

02:33No, I'm familiar as well.

02:34Yeah, of course you are.

02:35Somebody, just as a quick one, somebody wrote a poison pen letter to my mother and said,

02:39world's best kept garden.

02:40The garden was a bit scruffy, but yeah, that's just a small example.

02:42Sorry, carry on.

02:43Yeah, yeah.

02:43And that's what that legislation was largely enacted to tackle with.

02:48But our police are using this now to scoop up dozens of people on a daily basis for things

02:54that they may have written online.

02:55Of course, it is not a free-for-all, whether it be online, in the streets, or in the pub.

03:02Or in television.

03:02In television as well.

03:03Yes, we do not have a free-for-all, but this legislation is clearly no longer fit for purpose.

03:10And what is really happening is that the police are pandering to people who get offended

03:16by stuff which really should be allowed under free speech in this country.

03:22I posted a joke a few days ago, a very funny joke, and it offended numerous snowflakes who

03:30then campaigned roundly to try and get me cancelled the length and breadth of any media organisation

03:37I've ever been on.

03:38This is tyrannical, mob-ruled by a minority of snowflakes who are so delicate that they get offended

03:48by people who tell jokes or tell it how it is.

03:52Yeah, Charlie Kirk was saying that the UK needs to get its mojo back.

03:57And, of course, we've just heard this breaking news tonight.

03:59Donald Trump has sent five State Department officials to the UK to do a briefing on the erosion of free speech.

04:04And, Paul, I know you're saying they shouldn't interfere, but they are coming from, I'll say this,

04:09they're coming from a place of concern, as our dearest friends, as our allies.

04:13As Charlie Kirk says, Britain has a lot to be proud of.

04:15We gave free speech to the world, and now we're heading down a very dark path indeed.

04:19Well, it came up when Starmer was in the White House, didn't it?

04:22If you remember, J.D. Vance said something about free speech, and Starmer stood up to him and said,

04:27no, we are the home of free speech, and we should be proud of that.

04:29So when these septics come in over here telling us what to do, I think they should be told to look at us.

04:34Yeah, but Starmer would say that.

04:36And, actually, everybody's concerns, including Charlie Kirk, are actually very well founded.

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