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(UK) Fury at Raab plans to tackle 'wokery' -- He is 'following in Putin's footsteps'

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C C Offline
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politi...ry-317459/

INTRO: Dominic Raab has said his plans to scrap Labour’s Human Rights Act will guarantee the principle of free speech becomes a legal “trump card”. The justice secretary said his proposals will protect free speech from being “whittled away” by “wokery and political correctness”.

The government plans to replace the landmark Human Rights Act with a new UK Bill of Rights, with Raab claiming free speech had to be given “different status in the pecking order of rights”.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, the deputy prime minister said: “Effectively, free speech will be given what will amount to ‘trump card’ status in a whole range of areas. “The thrust is going to be making sure that when we balance rights, whether it’s the right to free speech and the right to privacy or other rights, we make sure that the greatest overriding importance and weight is attached to free speech.”

He added: “But we’ve got to be able to strengthen free speech, the liberty that guards all of our other freedoms, and stop it being whittled away surreptitiously, sometimes without us really being conscious of it. I feel very strongly that the parameters of free speech and democratic debate are being whittled away, whether by the privacy issue or whether it’s wokery and political correctness.”

Raab continued: “So it will have a different status in the pecking order of rights and I think that will go a long way to protecting this country’s freedom of speech and our history, which has always very strongly protected freedom of speech.”

His intervention sparked a furious reaction on Twitter, with commentators lining up to criticise the justice secretary. Here are some of the most irate reactions... (MORE - the irate reactions)
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stryder Offline
Re: Rights Bill:
It doesn't matter what laws they pass if the crimes themselves aren't reported because of how reporting them is handled (People that report tend to get ignored.)
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confused2 Offline
A few years ago (actually about 40) I went for a walk round our local nuclear power station with a geiger counter. I'd say they'd had a bit of a leak at some point before then. I was sort of arrested by police with lots of shiny stuff on their uniforms and interrogated. To remove myself from the terrorist category and into the concerned citizen category I made up that I was doing a report for a local paper. Which paper? I gave the name of a local rag and was released after a few hours. I actually knew a few people at the paper and next day I drifted in to apologise for mentioning them to be told "Go away.". Er? Turned out a bunch of thugs had turned up earlier and (literally) threatened to smash the printing press and said that if they tried to print my report they'd never work in journalism again. Even with hindsight I'm not sure whether radiation levels at the perimeter fence of a nuke station is an issue of free speech or something else.
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Syne Offline
That's why Brits don't know what true freedom is.
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