The dirty truth about England. They have almost never been a free nation and free speech has been brutally suppressed for most of it’s history. There have only been a few decades of semi-free speech combined with a right to vote. Most WWI British soldiers mowed down in Flanders didn’t have a right to vote.
Much earlier, you spoke up, the Crown would have you murder via hanging or myriad other tortures. You could simply be expelled to be a slave of the Royal Navy at sea, or expelled to Australia.
Basically, free speech and rule of law and freedom from an aristocratic autocracy is not the norm in the UK and never has been, despite all their bragging about such a past.
or expelled to Australia
Yes but the reasoning has changed over time. When it was free speech directed at and against Christianity, the consequences and reflexive “outrage” was to declare, verbally, the offensiveness of it. The community would maintain peace.
Now that the natives are decrying Islam, which has infiltrated the government and will not tolerate any of it, where all know that the result will be violence from Muslims, the elites declare free speech be crushed...in the “best interests of the collective” and “keeping the peace”.
It’s so Neville Chamberlain, disgustingly open cowardice.
This is the true evil of socialism. Islamic influence + democratic socialism = eventual slavery. The elites declare what rights you’ll have, as they judge what is in the “best interests of the collective”, over the rights of the individual. Here, in the USA, we believe that the best interests of the collective ARE individual rights, and they’re innate & inalienable under God. The USA is the only country on earth where this is the case.