@ClarksonsFarm1 I went to Canada some years ago, kids were playing out in -15c, they were dressed for the weather, no school closures, life continued as normal.
ROBERT HARDMAN: Proof that Bridget Phillipson IS a spiteful class warrior and that children are suffering as a result of her policies https://t.co/dsq10fIRcy
@RichardBurgon Burnham: Cambridge → journalist → SPAD → MP at 31 → career politician with zero frontline grit. Contrast that with Dr Rosena Allin-Khan: actual A&E doctor still treating patients on the NHS while being an MP. That’s real world experience. Not Westminster bubble bullshit.
@Keir_Starmer If you have achieved so much why have so many Labour MPs stabbed you in the front. Just think on that, you weren't accepted by your own MPs and they got rid of you as soon as they could.
Sir Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister.
He has led the most authoritarian government in more than a generation, unleashing an unprecedented assault on free speech. Indeed, he seems determined to make social media censorship his legacy.
In the process, he has proved to be an effective recruiting sergeant for the Free Speech Union, with our membership growing from 14,000 at the time of the last General Election to more than 45,000 today.
But there is little reason to believe things will improve under his likely successor, Andy Burnham.
It is believed that the former MP for Makerfield and former head of Labour Together, Josh Simons, who resigned so Burnham could fight a by-election, is set for a plum job at the heart of Downing Street. The Free Speech Union recently exposed Labour’s ‘misinformation mafia’ that Simons led, targeting journalists and others that challenged Starmer’s technocratic managerialism. We anticipate an escalation in Labour’s efforts to suppress dissenting speech on social media in the forthcoming Representation of the People Bill, assuming Burnham doesn’t abandon the legislative programme outlined in the King’s Speech.
Burnham is also keen on bringing forward a ‘fully trans-inclusive’ ban on ‘conversion therapy’, which may mean criminalising parents who ‘misgender’ their confused adolescent children or who withhold consent from their children embarking on irreversible medical pathways.
No doubt there will be numerous other assaults on free speech which we’ll be keeping a close eye on.