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Britain has a constitution, although it is a looser one than the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Constitution

Did you read that? It validates what I said. The British "Constitution" is unwritten, and is supposedly written documents from a variety of sources, and unwritten(!) sources. And who decides which of those are part of it. then you get the kicker: "No Act of Parliament can be unconstitutional, for the law of the land knows not the word or the idea." It's not really a Constitution in any sense of the word. And as far as free speech, there is no restriction on Parliament to curtail free speech.

Britain has a constitution. It does not have a Constitution. The US does. The US has specific, written guarantees and a specific instrument establishing a supreme law beyond the reach of the legislature, executive, and courts.

Britain has only traditions and laws, and the concept of Parliamentary Supremacy. In countries with Parliamentary Supremacy, there is not -- nor can there ever be -- a Constitution, because there is no power above the legislature. Rights Englishmen have enjoyed since Magna Carta can be swept away by nothing more than a majority vote.

Witness, for example, the English Bill of Rights (containing a few, very immature, ideas about ordered liberty.) That so called "Bill of Rights" contains a provision for the right to keep and bear arms. That provision was long ago destroyed in all meaningful senses by acts of Parliament.