As Nigel Farage attacked the state of free speech in the UK in front of a congressional committee in Washington DC, The Independent’s political editor David Maddox discusses Reform’s attitude to a free press

When the right talk about free speech, they only defend the free speech of bigots and right-wing politicians.

As soon as someone disagrees with them or calls them out, suddenly speech isn’t so free after all.

  • Armand1@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    For our American brethren, Nigel Farage is the head of the far-right Reform party that mostly runs on anti-immigrant / LGBTQ hatred and fake free-speech claims.

    It’s a rebrand of the UKIP party (United Kingdom Independence Party) that were the chief people behind the disaster that was Brexit, which Farage was the leader of at the time.