The end of free speech and free protest in the UK

[Gooders1002]

It’s farewell to your centuries-old right to free speech today, after your Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs won their bid to get the Gagging Bill passed by the House of Lords. It won’t go back to the Commons because the Lords made no amendments.

While you, personally, will be allowed to continue complaining about anything you want, you will no longer have the ability to link up with others to protest government actions in any meaningful way as such action may breach Liberal Democrat and Tory government-imposed spending limits. Your personal complaints will be deemed unrepresentative of the people.http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2014/01/...in-the-uk/

Fuck it, I am moving or voting labour.

[StuW]

You do realise that there are exactly the same number of Labour peers as Tory? How would voting labour change anything? Do you think Labour will change it back again? lol

Edit to add Peer makeup stats: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-o...the-lords/

[là bạn điên]

What is this 'end of free speech' business? We have never had free speech in the UK to end and certainly never had 'free protest' whatever that is. labour is vastly more Authoritarian than the Liberals or Tories as they showed last time they were in power.

Anyone who calls the BBC the mouthpiece of the conservative party is clearly a lunatic.

[Minimalist]

This means the new law will do nothing to restrict the power of corporations to write government policy or prevent lobbying scandals such as those involving former Tory MP Patrick Mercer, along with Tories Peter Cruddas and Liam Fox.

Ah. What is euphemistically called "the invisible hand of the market!"