Starmer: ‘Special relationship’ with US or keep the censorship push? Posted on 04/16/2025 8:40:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
UK’s Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer is tragically set on imposing censorship in social media as a last resource to silence his own citizens and impose their hated Globalist agenda unimpeded.
However, if he wants to get a trade deal with the US, Starmer will have to embrace Donald J. Trump’s free speech agenda, and repeal ‘hate speech’ and censorship laws, sources close to chief negotiator VP JD Vance have told British paper The Independent.
This report follows statements by Vance hinting that a UK-US agreement ‘may be close’, with the White House ‘working very hard’ on it.
Vance to UnHerd:
“I think there’s a good chance that, yes, we’ll come to a great agreement that’s in the best interest of both countries.”
VP Vance is leading the negotiations. The Independent reported:
“But allies of Mr. Vance say he is ‘obsessed by the fall of Western civilization’ – including his view that free speech is being eroded in Britain – and that he will demand the Labour government rolls back laws against hateful comments, including abuse targeting LGBT+ groups or other minorities, as a condition of any deal.
The Independent was told: ‘The vice-president expressing optimism [on a trade deal] is a way of putting further pressure on the UK over free speech. If a deal does not go through, it makes Labour look bad’.”Starmer: ‘Special relationship’ with US or keep the censorship push?
Needless to say, the Independent report not only misrepresents Vance’s opinions as ‘an obsession’, but the paper also describes the censorship laws as benign interventions against ‘hate’ and ‘targeted abuse’.
“’No free speech, no deal. It is as simple as that’, the source close to the vice-president said. It is understood that Britain has already offered to drop its proposed digital services tax as a means of getting a trade deal through. But the US wants to see laws on hate speech repealed as well as plans for a new online safety law dropped.”
Vice President Vance called out the British PM Starmer TO HIS FACE for prosecuting free speech:
“I said what I said…there have been infringements on free speech.” pic.twitter.com/GcDaURL74k
— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) February 27, 2025
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Good for President Trump
The only hateful ones in the room are the governments who arrest people because someone else got a cob stuck in their collective asses.
Yesss. Same with Canada. France. Germany.
Trump is missing the point by a country mile. It’s not Starmer who’s doing this; it’s the civil service and police (with complicit judges).
For years, even under the Tories, this carried on.
Yesterday, the most egregious example of all - the definition of woman under the Equality Act - was settled in the Supreme Court. Womanhood is and always has been biological sex, not self identification; and appropriation of the word by men in cross dress has no legal protection. Trans women are not women.
(Active discrimination/persecution of trans people for being trans, however, remains unlawful under the Gender Recognition Act.)
That happened on Starmers watch and already the NHS has scurried off to begin rolling back trans affirming policies that harm women.
If Starmer, Truss or Johnson had issued an edict, the civil service would’ve ignored it. They listen to Stonewall and Mermaids, not politicians. Even though Starmer was an eminent barrister before being prime minister, his opinion is just an opinion and his “guidance” doesn’t have the same power as an executive order.
But the Blob can’t argue with the Supreme Court. If they say the trans mafia has wilfully misrepresented the Equality Act, that’s definitive.
That’s how best to take down bad legal opinions in the UK. The politicians may make the law, and word it poorly, but the Supreme Court tells organisations and lawyers what they can and can’t get away with.
Starmer is joined at the hip to the UK judicial system
It’s his background and it’s the only sector of the UK population that he gives a damn about! Not a moment goes by that he doesn’t prove it
Where is the repeal of our hate speech laws?
We have them too and use them to condition speech for approved groups.
I do not like targeted laws...
what does it have to do with tariffs?
That is just bullshit legalistic thinking. Never depend on the dictatorial misfits who become judges. The practice of deciding the fate of others deforms their souls.
Noble goal, but I thought the point of all this was to benefit us economically? What’s in it for us?
Tariffs are a stick you can use to beat a dog that sh1t in the house. Britain is becoming a Orwellian dystopia and tariffs can be a lever to force the reptilian, inbred aristocracy to behave.
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