Posted on 02/27/2025 7:42:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Keir Starmer has hit back at US Vice President JD Vance after he accused the UK of "infringements on free speech".
The comment was made during a question and answer session between the politicians and reporters at the Oval Office.
Turning bright red, Mr Vance said: "Look, I said what I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK, and also some of our European allies, but we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British – of course what the British do in their own country is up to them – but also affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens, so that is something that we’ll talk about today at lunch.”
Hitting back at the US politician, Sir Keir said: “Well, we’ve had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom and it will last for a very, very long time.
“Certainly, we wouldn’t want to reach across US citizens, and we don’t, and that’s absolutely right, but in relation to free speech in the UK I’m very proud of our history there.”
Mr Vance had lectured European nations, including the UK, on free speech during remarks before the Munich Security Conference earlier this month.
He had said that freedom of expression was “in retreat” across Britain and wider Europe.
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“From 1986 to 1987, Starmer served as the editor of Socialist Alternatives, a Trotskyist radical magazine produced by an organisation under the same name, which represented the British section of the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT).”
Dude’s a straight up commie. And an atheist.
CC
Ask Tommy Robinson
“Dude’s a straight up commie. And an atheist.“
It’s been going down hill since the Iron Lady left 10 Downing.
Now Obama goes there to visit his marxist buddy.
It’s kinda funny because if you watch any British TV he’s the constant butt of jokes, mostly centering around his profound lack of a personality.
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Is there going to be a worldwide forum created for countries and for individuals who are pro-conservative and pro-Donald Trump? That is, a Conservative United Nations?
“Certainly, we wouldn’t want to reach across US citizens, and we don’t, and that’s absolutely right, but in relation to free speech in the UK I’m very proud of our history there.”
you got your asses handed to you in that history. and free speech means you will again.
Note to folks in the UK...
After a brief crawl through your enenedia thus morning, I heartily suggest that you find the time to watch any recorded events for yourselves.
Your enemedia is lying to you.
And the push to get you officially back in the EU has now gone into overdrive.
Your survival, the UK’s survival, is at stake.
Ignorance is not bliss.
Starmer did not “hit back.”
““Well, we’ve had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom and it will last for a very, very long time.”
Only if redefine “free speech” as government approved and enforced under penalty of law.
Really? Our separation from England was for numerous reasons, lack of free speech being prominent among them.
Exactly why dual citizenship should not be tolerated.
“What you see happening is not happening”
Am I the only Freeper that thinks Keir Starmer looks like Fred Barnes?
'I've lost 4,500 sheep to thieves on Dartmoor'
Police investigating livestock attack in Flintshire
More than 30 sheep stolen from Kerry Ridgeway in Powys
WARNING on this last one: Graphic pics at link.
Warning and appeal after sheep attacked near Osmotherley
WTH is going on in the UK?!?
I no longer believe that "there will always be an England".
‘I think someone got in there before your dad’
The US should be placing sanctions on the UK for this.
Paki Labor is destroying the English hold on the nation.
Labor destroyed the nation
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