Bridget Phillipson is set to face legal action for her controversial pause on new free speech laws aimed at shielding academics from cancel culture. The Telegraph has more.
The Education Secretary shelved the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act just days before it was due to come into force in August and said she would consider repealing it.
The Telegraph has learned that the Free Speech Union has now been granted permission to appeal the move, with a judicial review hearing set to take place in the High Court on January 23rd.
The group has accused Ms. Phillipson of acting unlawfully by removing protections for “people of certain protected groups”, such as “gender-critical persons or those who espouse minority political views”.
It also argues the Education Secretary was not entitled to pull the plug on the Act through a written ministerial statement alone, and that “any repeal of the legislation is a matter for Parliament not the executive”.
In a legal document confirming permission to appeal the move, a High Court judge said it was in the “public interest” for the issue to be resolved promptly.
The judge added that even if Ms. Phillipson intended only to “pause” the Act while options were being considered, “it is arguable that it was insufficient for the purposes of s.149 of the Equality Act 2010 to proceed on the basis that no significant impacts were foreseen”.
It comes as the Government faces backlash from academics over Ms. Phillipson’s decision to shelve the free speech laws.
The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act would have established a new complaints scheme allowing students, staff and visiting speakers to seek compensation if they were “cancelled” on campus.
The flagship Conservative policy would have also strengthened protections against foreign interference. This would have seen the Office for Students granted new powers to terminate universities’ overseas partnerships if they were found to have contravened free speech duties. …
But Ms. Phillipson has insisted universities are being treated like a “political battlefield”, and that the legislation could “expose students to harm and appalling hate speech on campuses”.
A source close to discussions said they had been informed by DfE officials that a decision would be made on the Act’s future by “the autumn”.
It remains unclear whether the Free Speech Union’s judicial review will proceed if Ms. Phillipson has already chosen to repeal the legislation by then.
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Silly buggers…
Fringe minority groups funded by dark money causing the destruction of our social values and structures.
And on what scientific or other theoretical basis can they claim migrants are victims of climate change and not people after the free money, food, accommodation and healthcare not available in their own countries?
It does not matter.
If you have ever had the misfortune to encounter someone from the Socialist Workers Party [see picture to this article] you will understand.
I wonder how many of these lefty self-pleasurers are offering a room to these migrants? People are sick to their back teeth of this and I can only see this going one way – a violent pushback. That is, of course, what the powers that be want.
There was a homeless guy on Five Live this morning when discussing the Stockholm Barge. He said how grateful he would be to be given free shelter on that Barge after some woman was crying about that Barge being an abuse of Human Rights!
Near where I live it has been decided not to spend millions refurbishing an old folks home to house migrants because it would not be value for money. Apparently it was good enough for old people who worked all their life and paid taxes, but not good enough for so called asylum seeks allegedly fleeing persecution or death unless millions were spent on refurbishing the place.
None whatever. If these illegals were foisted on them they would be up in arms against it.
I’m hugely in favour of Just Stop Paying These Imbeciles With My Taxes … and maybe also Just Give Them A Good Hiding, this being repeated as necessary to make them shut up. The problem these people have is that they have no problems and never had any. Not even drivers accelerating towards them to make them jump out of way quickly, a not that uncommon occurence, at least in Reading.
They make a nuisance of themselves and disrupt society here because they get away with it. They realise they would end up in the gulag in they tried it in China.
The mentalists have just gone up a notch then. Ignorant plonkers! Good on MP Jill Mortimer for making a stand in parliament yesterday regarding this issue;
”Tensions on the Tory backbenches over the failure to stop small boat Channel crossings exploded today as an MP told Rishi Sunak that “enough is enough!”
In a dramatic intervention during PMQs, Hartlepool MP Jill Mortimer got up and told Mr Sunak that one of her constituents was murdered on Sunday by an asylum seeker stuck in a hotel in the town.
She demanded that the Prime Minister get the illegal migrants out of her constituency without hesitation as she tried to contain her anger over the continued crisis.
As the House audibly hushed for her question, Ms Mortimer said: “On Sunday Terrence Carney, a 70-year-old Hartlepudlian, was murdered by an asylum seeker.
“People are afraid and angry.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1825207/tory-mp-civil-war-rishi-sunak-migrant-crisis-pmqs/amp
I’m sure that there’s a rather unpleasant connection between the money lavishly disbursed under the government’s “Northern Powerhouse” and the various local authorities’ aquiescent silence about the number of illegals that are being foisted on them. Hartlepool is quite obviously being used as a sink for many of these unwanted arrivals, without any attempt to get the support of the local residents.
Perhaps the monkey hangers should change targets.
Two remarks:
1) Aren’t you glad that the police is compiling impressive knife-crime statistics by confiscating pocket-knives of perfectly law-abiding folk? Tackling violent criminals with knives would really be asking too much of them. That’s not safe!
2) The people who voted for this ‘slick’ bankster evading the question with platitudes are singularly unsuited for selecting the leader of anything as they likely belong to the class being ripped off by door-to-door salesmen.
A solution:
Arrest all the JSO protesters and lock them up with the illegals on the prison ship.
A few months “cultural enrichment” will do them a power of good.
But you don’t lock up your own useful idiots. You them to do your dirty work for you.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/heart-damage-study-adds-weight-to-call-for-immediate-ban-on-mrna-vaccines/
A dump but an important one detailing the myocarditis issues caused by the “vaccines” and which affect everyone jabbed.
I see more DNA contamination has been found in all 27 vials of Pfizer and Moderna product tested, this time in Canada. I think whatever research team look for this they’re going to find it because it’s there. It’s great these results are getting replicated all over the world though. That carries more weight than any amount of once ‘gold standard’, now totally corrupt, peer-review, in my opinion. Jessica Rose and Kevin McKernan are two of the authors of this new paper;
https://osf.io/mjc97/
”BREAKING- Latest study on 27 vials.
All vials exceed the guidelines by orders of magnitude using Fluorometry.
All vials are under the guidelines using qPCR for single dose. Over once you take many.
XBB1.5 still has the problem.”
https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1714957605762724129
As I posted a day or two ago Mogs these findings are slowly but very surely becoming mainstream. The next Scamdemic is going to be a hardsell.
Re-open the coal mines. This bunch of blithering idiots have too much time on their hands and need a proper job.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/vigano-americans-satanic-globalist-elite/
Another dump but this from Archbishop Vigano so worthy of our attention.
Bloody hell! Not a Christian but I stand by all he wrote.
No wonder he’s in hiding. He’s a lovely, genuine Christian man from whom I received a blessing last December when he addressed MD4CE. His faith, honesty & humility is an inspiration to all of us, believers & non-believers alike. He’s on our side.
Just like BLM supporting Hamas!
JSO do know that the military industrial complex is the biggest user of fossil fuels and producer of environmental toxins, let alone the much maligned C02, don’t they? Wouldn’t it make much more sense to protest outside munitions factories, military bases and the like than pointless stunts like this? Perhaps they’d like to glue themselves to the runway by that weather station at RAF Coningsby, or stop a tank convoy on the A303 near Andover……oh, wait…..
They could go to Gaza city and protest there.
But wait a second what has oil got to do with migrants? ———Ah yes ofcourse mass immigration is another leftist policy as is getting rid of fossil fuels. ——–But I thought climate change was supposed to be about “science”? ——-Nope it never was. It is almost certain that if you are one of those useful idiots that glue yourself to the road you will be in favour of unlimited immigration. —–It is in their DNA.
Simple answer handcuff a refugee to each one of the protestors and wish them well. Sure there would need to be checks in place to make sure the hand cuffs weren’t removed from either party but that’s easy to do.