If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
'A radical Islamist, a Pakistani grooming gang and a transexual pedohpile walk into a pub...well they might be allowed to, but you're not allowed to talk about them!'
Patrick Christys slams an 'absolutely mental' new law that could erode free speech in the nation's boozers.
Key points ive taken away and learnt from the responses to my tweet yesterday expressing my own personal opinions about being concerned for my 3 daughters future in the UK.
People that WANT to disagree with you will add their own context & create their own talking points to argue with you regardless of what you tweet actually states in writing.
If you question the obscene level of taxes in this country and how much they have increased you don’t want to contribute to society and you also clearly don’t want to help the less fortunate, that’s what it means, you are an awful person to even suggest the government are taking the piss.
London is 100% safe after dark for you and your children to walk around and if you disagree with this in the slightest you are a “Pussyole”.
If you’ve ever crossed the line and got things wrong in the pursuit of entertainment and comedy and came across as misogynistic and sexist (ten years ago when you was a bit of a twat) you have NO RIGHT to be concerned about or discuss woman’s safety even if those women are your own three daughters.
This is a BIG one, if you express concern for ILLEGAL immigration under the pretext of not knowing who is coming into the country with what motives they have and are worried about them mixing with our children you are RACIST and hate ALL immigration, regardless of the fact I'm half Indian and part of my family emigrated here and my grandad taught me that controlled legal emigration rebuilt this country after the second world war and to value it. Which I do. If you are worried about ILLIGAL immigration you hate ALL immigration, be aware of that.
If you are concerned with your children being exposed to gender and over sexulised stuff like on the Olympic opening ceremony and find it strange that its so heavily mixed in with children you are a transphobe and homophobic and automatically hate all trans and gay people.
Be aware of all of that before voicing your own opinion. I got called every name manageable, called irrelevant, stupid, racist, homophobic, had awful things said about my wife, kids, my mum lol, death threats, the lot, from one tweet all within a few hours, it don’t phase me, half of it is for a reaction by severally uneducated trolls and im used to it.
What does worry me is how intense it is for other people that are worried about things and makes me see why people are so scared to have an opinion about their country and how things are done.
People are far more interested in trying to catch you out and make out they have discovered your something evil then listen to legitimate concerns, that’s why this country isn’t moving in the right direction, people are to concerned with calling people bigots and to afraid to talking the risk of being called one. We are fucked.
Im always willing to learn, talk, listen & change my ways of thinking if I'm wrong, or if they have been influenced in the wrong direction, im open to discussion and never set in my ways, I think that's really important, I wanted to say that. I mean it.
Ive tried to steer clear of these subjects because I was worried as I'm now back on tour after ten years and have finally sorted my life out, and I really just want to make people laugh and smile, but if anything, that reaction has shown me how important it is to feel free to discuss everything and not be scared to, so ill say what I want now, when I want, but im always open to discussion.
There is a cancer on social media trying to squash any opinions that don’t match up.
Ow yer, I also learned that if you worry about all those points above as a collective then you are FAR RIGHT, well then, guess that makes me far right, anyone else far right and never even knew?