[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by jet

The conservatives are seeking to reform Labours old Human Rights Act...I hope this goes ahead...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eader-comments
March 2022

Free speech to get legal supremacy, says Dominic Raab as he unveils plan to stop democratic debate being 'whittled away by wokery' in major victory over cancel culture
Deputy PM Raab warns democratic debate is being 'whittled away by wokery'
He says that the principle of free speech will become a legal 'trump card' after unveiling plans to replace Labour's Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights
The changes will protect media freedom and allow press to expose wrongdoing


Justice Secretary Mr Raab exclusively told the Mail about the proposed reforms
The proposed reforms will seek to reverse the corrosion of long-held freedoms by ‘cancel culture’, political correctness and creeping moves towards European-style privacy by the back door driven by judicial interpretations of the Human Rights Act, he says.
The changes will protect media freedom, allowing the Press to continue to expose corruption and wrongdoing, and allow individuals to speak their minds.
The landmark proposals, currently out for consultation, are expected to be included in the Queen’s Speech later this year.
Mr Raab, who is also the Justice Secretary, told the Mail: ‘Effectively, free speech will be given what will amount to “trump card” status in a whole range of areas……
……Harry Potter author JK Rowling and other public figures have been vilified for voicing concerns over an erosion of women’s rights by the transgender lobby, for example.
Only this week, the creator of comedy series Father Ted Graham Linehan declared that he had been ‘thoroughly cancelled’ and that trans activists had cost him his family and his marriage. Recent years have seen cancel culture extend across society, with growing numbers attacked in public life, on university campuses and on social media for expressing their views…etc…..

Do you have any opinions of your own to add, Jet? You do know that raab is on record as not actually supporting the human rights act at all, and doesn't even believe in economic and social rights?

We already discussed Linehan. His wife left him and he called that being cancelled. JK is a billionaire with a public and major platform. How in your opinion is that being cancelled?