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Woke ‘Banter Bill’ will destroy Britain’s last bastion of free speech: the local pub
NY Post ^ | July 22, 2025 | Brendan O'Neill

Posted on 08/01/2025 4:21:49 PM PDT by Vendome

It’s official: Nowhere in Britain is safe from the woke speech police.

First they stomped their jackboot on universities, where it’s now a risky business to express conservative opinions or even to state biological facts, including such sinful utterances as: “Men are not women.”

Then they came for the workplace.

Crack an off-color joke or voice a dissenting view and you might be made to take an “awareness-raising course” — or what the Soviets called re-education.

Now the Woke Inquisition is feverishly eyeing yet another zone of British society for one of its joyless crackdowns, this time laying down its ruthless writ in arguably the most sacred space in all of the United Kingdom.

Where is that?

The pub.

You will be in a constant state of panic, forever fretting that a twentysomething bar staffer might overhear a blue joke or an unwoke opinion, then sue you for failing to guard them from such “harassment.”

We might be headed for truly Kafkaesque territory, with pubs forced to employ “banter bouncers” to reprimand the patter of those who’ve had a few too many.

These literal speech police might “eavesdrop on customer conversations,” the FSU warns, and “eject them if they say something ‘problematic.’”

After all, if a merry drinker says to his pal that “trans women are men” or “immigration levels are too high,” some purple-haired pint-puller who overhears them might feel offended.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 1984; angelarayner; fun; israelrejectsjesus; labourparty; liberaldemocrats; lorelyburt; more; no; policestate; prohibition; saynotonazis; singlepartystate; talk; thoughtpolice; ukcopsarefairgame; unitedkingdom; ziomindrot
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1 posted on 08/01/2025 4:21:49 PM PDT by Vendome
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To: Vendome

I guess this will make cockney rhyming salng illegal.


2 posted on 08/01/2025 4:25:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Vendome

How to balkanize 101.


3 posted on 08/01/2025 4:29:52 PM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: Vendome

If the Brits (in particular, British men) don’t stand against this crap, there is no saving that nation, nor does such a nation deserve saving.

British men will stand. They will organize. They will figure out ways around obstacles. Weaklings will quickly latch onto any and every excuse for why they “just caaaaaaan’t” do anything more than sit there and bitch while they wait for someone to come along and do it FOR them.


4 posted on 08/01/2025 4:30:28 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (( We have two options: 1. Stand up, or 2. Bend over))
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To: Vendome

Well soon muslims will want all Pubs shout down anyway


5 posted on 08/01/2025 4:31:54 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

“Well soon muslims will want all Pubs shut down anyway.”

...and a few years after that, they won’t need to ask, they’ll simply order them shut.


6 posted on 08/01/2025 4:35:12 PM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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There will be a ton of very angry Brits , maybe


7 posted on 08/01/2025 4:37:45 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Vendome

As long as it’s not RAF banter.


8 posted on 08/01/2025 4:37:56 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: AFB-XYZ

There is some hope. The story of a girl expelled from a school for wearing a Union Jack dress has gone viral, as has one of an Anglo-Polish woman kicked out of a pub for the same reason. Sites defending British and English culture are popping up on Facebook. And demonstrations by Britishers waving Union Jacks and St. Geroge Cross flags have been occurring.


9 posted on 08/01/2025 4:40:00 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Vendome

I dare Keir Stalin’s Storm Troopers to attempt to enforce that tyranny at a soccer match. Especially at a Millwall match.

I follow several independent British YouTube news channels. The UK is a tinderbox ready to explode.


10 posted on 08/01/2025 4:41:02 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (R.I.P. Diogo Jota! Gone too soon! You’ll never walk alone. #20 #Liverpool)
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Formerly ‘Great’Britain is now Keir Stasi’s police state.


11 posted on 08/01/2025 4:49:23 PM PDT by A strike (A ceasefire is just a timeout for the loser side to rest. rearm and train .)
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“There will be a ton of very angry Brits , maybe”

It won’t matter, they be led to the slaughter by their leaders, and if they resist, they’ll be JAILED, and then slaughtered. There will be no more ‘White Europe’ anymore and the last holdouts will be Eastern Europe and Russia, hence the obsession to get control of those populations.


12 posted on 08/01/2025 4:49:26 PM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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the Brits must rise up against both the enemy within and Islam


13 posted on 08/01/2025 4:52:40 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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They’re going to have to open up some Speak Easies ... so they won’t have to speak easy.


14 posted on 08/01/2025 4:53:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: AFB-XYZ

One problem they have that we don’t, is that the British liberals are super smart. They don’t have as many low IQ woke liberals as we do. And they don’t have a populist movement.


15 posted on 08/01/2025 4:59:16 PM PDT by nwrep
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> They’re going to have to open up some Speak Easies ... <

Private clubs would be a solution… until private clubs are outlawed.


16 posted on 08/01/2025 5:01:33 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Vendome

1984. Terrifying.


17 posted on 08/01/2025 5:01:38 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Islam does not tolerate drinking. You’re conquered UK. Sorry. Embrace Islam or lose your heads.


18 posted on 08/01/2025 5:03:12 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: HartleyMBaldwin; dfwgator

“Cabbage crates coming over the briny!”

They’ll ban “semprini” next...


19 posted on 08/01/2025 5:03:53 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: Vendome

i havent given up on the tommies

they have been thru worse than this


20 posted on 08/01/2025 5:07:51 PM PDT by joshua c
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