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[Jo @Jocdhk]

@I_amMukhtar You lot are so weird. All he did was uncover a liar and fraudster and you hate him for it because the professor was black and a product of DEI. The only racists here are you lot and your bigotry of low expectations.

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@MarinaPurkiss And why would you? Anne Widdecombe was an 83 yo politician with different view points to you and was murdered in her home. Jason Arday was a serial liar and fraudster. When he was called out on it he tried to smear the man and call him racist when he knew the man was correct.

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@mehdirhasan @BenAffleck You’d think by owning a media company you’d understand the importance of talking to people who disagree with you and challenge your ideas. Unless of course your arguments can’t hold up to scrutiny and can only thrive in an echo chamber unchallenged.

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@_19_Ells_ Two things can be true. Perhaps taxing the rich even more will help the economy (I doubt it as tax is used to stop growth not boost it) but why should someone who has been in the country 5 minutes get free access to all our services that we have paid for in taxes for decades?

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@PeterMcCormack @Heccles94 He believes it will ease the burden on the NHS. An interesting argument.

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@HelenWebberley You belong in jail

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@Dr_Black It’s not racist to call a fraud a fraud. What is racist is giving someone a job or promoting someone into a position they don’t deserve because of their skin colour. You hypocrites make me sick! My condolences to his family.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

Two posts in one day calling for the end of John Cleese.

One says he has allied himself with the darkest forces in Britain and has become the caricature he once mocked. The other, from a Muslim outlet, argues plainly that he should be de-platformed by respectable institutions.

De-platformed. Respectable institutions. Say those words slowly and try to hear how they would have landed in 1972.

The man co-wrote a film so blasphemous the BBC would not touch it, that was banned outright in Norway and by councils across England, and that two bishops went on television to denounce while he sat there and let them.

Life of Brian survived the actual Church of England.

It is now being reviewed by a newsletter.

And the accusation is that he has become the caricature he once mocked, which is a remarkable sentence to write about a man whose entire body of work was aimed at exactly this. The Ministry of Silly Walks was a joke about a government department funding nonsense with a straight face. Now we have men in offices deciding which comedians remain permissible, and doing it with no jokes at all.

At least the Ministry had the decency to be funny.

Let me be fair, because I am always fair, and because being fair is what makes the rest of this land.

Criticism is not censorship. Both of those men have every right to say Cleese is wrong, tasteless, or past it. That is speech. Nobody owes an 86 year old comedian applause.

But there is a hard line between you are wrong and you should not be permitted to speak, and one of those posts crossed it in the headline.

The first is an argument. The second is an eviction notice.

And notice what the eviction is actually for. He said things about a religion. Not about a person. A religion, which is a set of ideas, and ideas do not have rights. People do. In England you can still say anything you like about the Church of England, and Cleese made a career of it, and nobody drafted a newsletter about respectable institutions.

Here is what is wrong with Britain, and I say it with real affection because I am going there next month.

A country that gave the world Magna Carta, the common law, and the funniest people who have ever lived has developed the habit of asking whether a joke is allowed.

That question has an answer over here.

John, if it gets any worse, come to America. Say every single thing you think. Say the wrong ones. Say the ones that would end you at home.

Nobody will de-platform you and nobody will send a constable.

Bring the silly walk. We have room.

🦋

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@LBC Wait so you can call people racist for saying that DEI could and would lead to this sort of fraud and when they are proven right they are still racist and you’re the victim? You have to be one hell of a narcissist to square that circle big ears.

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@PolitlcsUK Should never have been allowed to happen in the first place. Even Saudi Arabia has banned this group for extremism. As far as I’m concerned the 12 people who got this event shut down are heroes.

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@BBCNewsnight Why is the conversation never about how much waste and fraud there is in government with the tax they already take from us? Until you sought that out how can we even be discussing increasing our already insanely high taxes?

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@troopzafc If you don’t even understand what the other sides ideas or point of views are how can you oppose them? Tweets like this are so ill informed it’s infuriating

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@GeronimoMorgans Cry more pussy

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@MasterMaliq Thanks for doing this Maliq. Having read through the comments and given references to a host of verses from the Quran I can comfortably say this is a horrible religion that I hope is expelled from my country. If its followers would like to leave because of this… good riddance 👋🏼

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@zarahussain999 If you think the best way to win an argument is to stop the other side from talking you’ve already lost. Your prophet was a nonce and a murderer. That’s a fact!

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@scotgov I am an immigrant. When I moved to New Zealand I didn’t demand or expect NZ to accommodate my beliefs and cultural customs. It was MY responsibility to assimilate and contribute to my new home and hosts. If I didn’t want to I could simply go home!!!

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@Hanley40 @LBC @cfdownes_ @Femi_sorry What makes him a white supremacist?

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@LBC @cfdownes_ @Femi_sorry Why don’t you address his actual argument?

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@Haydenfreedom Free?

[Jo @Jocdhk]

@Bushra1Shaikh What happened in Edinburgh was disgusting. But blaming this atrocity on people who are simply calling out the CLEAR negative consequences of mass, unvetted immigration that the British public didn’t want and in fact consistently voted against, is disingenuous to put it mildly.