Nigel Farage’s failure to speak up for Palestine protestors shows his hypocrisy on free speech - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Dr Les May, Crescent Road, Rochdale.
Re: Farage just can't see his own hypocrisy: The YP, September 6, p15.
Nigel Farage has shown himself to be remarkably selective in choosing the examples for his claim that in the UK we live under an “authoritarian censorship regime”; one suggested arson, the other is claimed to have harassed someone and snatched their phone.
He makes no comment upon the fact that in the past two weeks almost 1,500 people have been arrested for what to many people, including me, looks increasing like the ‘crime’ of disagreeing with Yvette Cooper about whether the activities of the group known as Palestine Action should be dealt with under terrorist legislation rather than under existing legislation relating to criminal damage.
Are we to assume he has chosen to ignore the latter so as not to offend his buddy Donald Trump or is it that like Trump he is at heart deeply authoritarian in his outlook and untroubled by the police being left to their own devices in determining what a vague term like ‘support’ of the proscribed group actually means?