“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me” is an old playground rhyme that generations of British children used when they were being insulted. The rhyme is said in order to show that people cannot be hurt by unpleasant things that are said to them.
In the past, most Britons took great pride in describing our nation as a bastion of free speech, where citizens could express themselves openly without fear of repercussions. However, that sense of unfettered liberty has become increasingly tenuous in recent years, with the period following the crowning of our new glorious leader and his cabinet of wannabe Marxists hastening us all down the path to an Orwellian future.
Britain does not have free speech, rather, we have freedom of expression, albeit with conditions and restrictions. Article 10 of the Human Rights Act states: Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
The festering discontent with immigration, especially amongst the White working class, reached boiling point in early August after the murder of three children and the wounding of others attending a dance class in Southport, a sleepy seaside town in Lancashire.
Rumours quickly spread on social media regarding the identity of the attacker, with many users sharing information that turned out to be incorrect. It is just human nature to want to impress by being the first to break news that others may not have heard. Unfortunately for them, being wrong is now a crime. If you belong to the wrong socio-economic group, or your opinions are regarded as ‘far-right’, you can expect to have your door kicked-in at 6am by the police.
I would argue here that the vast majority of the people sharing such information did so because they believed it to be true, and so were acting basically in the same way that ‘breaking news’ stories appear in the media. Unfortunately, modern Britain is a very different place to what it was a few decades ago. That change has quickened dramatically since the Labour Party managed to win the 2024 General Election with the votes of less than 1-in-5 of the voting population.
Proof, if proof is needed, about ‘two-tier policing’ and the attack on our working class communities is evident in the treatment of Nick Lowles of the Marxist group Hope Not Hate. He took to X (Twitter to you and me), to tweet an inflammatory lie about an acid attack on a Muslim woman in Middlesbrough during the riots, a claim that was later denied by Cleveland police. Lowles’ tweet was reposted by Labour MP Josh Fenton-Glynn.
Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, tweeted that a gang of violent masked Muslim men took to the streets to protect their community from ‘racists.’ A Sky TV news crew were forced to flee from the area after being threatened by the mob. Phillips said, “These people came to this location because it has been spread that racists were coming to attack them.”
Lowles, who many believe works for the British state, said he would ‘hold my hands up’ if the post was wrong. Home Office minister Phillips admitted making a mistake and apologised. We are still waiting for the police to knock on their doors. Don’t hold your breath.
The unsettling reality is that we are all now vulnerable and have to walk on eggshells. We must be hyper-vigilant about the words we choose lest we utter the “wrong thing” at the “wrong moment” and invite the heavy-handed intrusion of the authorities and their masked, Robocop-style, paramilitary goons. In todays Britain, expressing controversial views is increasingly likely to result in someone you’ve never met reporting you to the police.
This is a marked departure from the traditional British ethos, which has long prized the freedom to engage in robust, spirited discourse as a fundamental right. If we allow this pernicious trend to continue unchecked, the outward appearance of our society may remain unchanged, with the statues still standing tall in their tree-lined public squares.
But the true nature of our nation will have been irrevocably altered, transformed from a place that championed the open exchange of ideas into one where everyone lives in fear of saying the wrong thing and suffering the consequences.
We live in a time of opportunity for racial Nationalism, but also one of great danger. A time where the trappings of freedom remain, but the substance has been hollowed out, leaving us a mere shadow of the country we once proudly proclaimed ourselves to be.
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