@RupertLowe10@JohnCleese Imagine a Britain where John Cleese a national treasure is on a watch list for Britains greatest enemies.
And at the very same time 5 suspected terrorist “british Nationals” are out on bail 🤣🤣
Pubs with traditional ale at cellar temperature and black Labradors have been staples of English rural life for generations, reflected in history, literature and current data on dog breeds and village inns. Asserting that this vision "never really existed" denies observable reality. Redefining the cultural past this way matches the historical revisionism Orwell described. Yes.
@KemiBadenoch@Nigel_Farage@RupertLowe10
Please get your acts together and do a deal or else we could lose the UK under another left wing government.
If that happens, you will never be forgiven and always remembered as traitors.
#UnitetheRight
@ShabanaMahmood You’re doing an excellent job @ShabanaMahmood. An excellent job of ensuring there will never be another @UKLabour government in my lifetime. Traitors. Every single last one of you.
@RupertLowe10@RestoreBritain Intimidation, interfering with democratic process, wearing face coverings all of which would result in arrest if this was patriotic demonstrators. Something must be done to stop this.
@ScumPass@jk_rowling@seanapriori@colone1flanders They likely have, but once any man decided they can “identify” as a woman and access the ladies only spaces, the worm turned. Trans brought it on themselves by demanding more and more.
Free speech is not the same thing as a Free ride on someone else’s sold-out stadium tour.
Macklemore can say “Free Palestine,” call it genocide, show Gaza footage, or anything else he wants. He has said those things for years. Nobody is stopping him from booking his own rooms, putting his own money on the line, hiring his own promoter, and selling tickets to people who want that set. That’s the normal way political or protest artists tour.
What happened here is different. He was the opener on Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour. The tickets were sold as Sheeran dates. The venues had contracts with Sheeran’s promoter. The audience showed up for Sheeran. When some of those venues said they would cancel the headliner’s shows rather than host that particular set, the promoter pulled the opener so the rest of the tour didn’t collapse.
That’s not “Macklemore has no free speech.” It’s “Macklemore doesn’t get to keep using Sheeran's already-sold dates and Sheeran's venues after those venues refuse him.” The person fronting the risk, the brand, and the payroll is Sheeran. The opener does not get a veto over whether those dates happen.
You can still think the venues’ reasons were bad, or that Sheeran should have cancelled in solidarity, or that the whole episode looks like powerful owners leaning on an artist. Those are separate arguments. They don’t erase the basic arrangement: if you want the political speech to be the product, you have to sell that product yourself. Hitching it to a pop stadium tour that was never sold that way is asking the headliner, the crew, and the ticket-holders to absorb the fallout.
You’re drawing a line that actually matters;
That’s the distinction you’re making, and it’s a coherent one.