The Institute of Economic Affairs warns that Labour’s plans to introduce tougher hate crime laws targeting sexual orientation, gender identity and disability could limit free speech, especially in debates around transgender issues. The Mail has the story.
Labour plans for tougher hate crime laws if they enter power could lead to criminal charges for misgendering trans people, a think tank warns today.
The Institute of Economic Affairs suggested that proposals revealed in 2021 and reinforced more recently by Sir Keir Starmer create “serious implications” for freedom of speech around trans rights.
Speaking at the Pink News awards last year the former Director of Public Prosecutions said it was “time for tougher hate crime laws so every LGBT+ crime is treated as an aggravated offence”.
He was outlining plans first set out in 2021 to bring in “tougher sentences for those who commit hate crimes targeted at someone’s sexual identity, transgender identity or disability”.
Currently only hate crimes with a racist or religious motive are classed as aggravated offences, which attract longer sentences.
Report author Marc Glendinning, Head of Cultural Affairs at the think-tank, said: “Many supporters of transgender ideology do not aim to win the debate but rather prevent debate from occurring.
“Maintaining free speech in this area, as in others, is essential if we are to defend a liberal society based on rationality rather than coercion.”
Labour hit back, with a source saying the report was “nonsense from the organisation that created the blueprint for Liz Truss’s disastrous kamikaze budget which crashed the economy and saddled working people with a mortgage bombshell”.
Announcing the party’s hate crime policies in 2021, party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds specifically singled out trans rights as an area where there needed to be “vital changes to hate crime laws”.
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Two new studies show mRNA-jabbed people have a much higher risk of getting Covid than unvaccinated people… and those who have received mRNA Covid vaccines are at least twice as likely to be infected with the coronavirus as unvaccinated people, according to two new papers from researchers in Indiana and Ohio.
Worse, the newer of the two studies, which covered Omicron this autumn, found risk actually rises with the number of shots. had received three or more shots were more than three times as likely to be infected as those who hadn’t received any!
Very “safe” and “effective” for Pfizer´s bank account ….
With the bonus of being immune to liability; what’s not to like? Money talks, in the drug trade.
Kinda ironic that in an article about scaremongering, you are banging on about Omicron ‘infections’. Who cares how many people
catchtest positive for a cold?It’s been the biggest Crime against Humanity ever seen and yet no one is being prosecuted.
100% agree and sadly it continues.
Whilst there is some hope of an increasing realisation amongst the sheep I can’t see the MSM/government reporting honestly unless the increase in deaths/illness accelerates to such a degree that even those bastards can’t continue to ignore it.
Indeed. The only people we (filthy unjabbed clean bloods) know getting Covid are those who have had the jab.
It always gladdens my heart and gives me cause for optimism when i see that there are professionals prepared to subject the frequent public health panics to the evidence. Not “the science” which is now a byword for manipulative fear casting and a cloak for control and authoritarianism. . Thanks Andrew and the many others who are ripping the clothes off of the public health emperors.
Tripledemic… lies, lies & more lies.
Business as usual then.
Dr Mercola’s take on the increase in RSV in children with suggestions of how to support children’s health.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-lockdowns-kids-gut-microbiomes-cola/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/12/joseph-mercola/bill-gates-plans-for-new-catastrophic-contagion/
“…Now, the Catastrophic Contagion exercise predicts SEERS-25 will kill 20 million people worldwide, including 15 million children, and many who survive the infection will be left with paralysis and/or brain damage. In other words, the “cue” given is that the next pandemic will likely target children rather than the elderly, as was the case with COVID-19.
This is an interesting coincidence, seeing how rates of toddlers and young children hospitalized with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is already spiking.
COVID Jabs Are Destroying People’s Immune Systems
Coincidentally, over the past year, researchers have been warning that the COVID jabs may be dysregulating and destroying people’s immune systems, leaving them vulnerable to all sorts of infections.
According to a study9 posted on the preprint server medRxiv in May 2021, the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID jab “reprograms both adaptive and innate immune responses, causing immune depletion.”
In August 2021, a French group of pediatric infectious disease experts also warned that “immunity debt” caused by a lack of exposure to common viruses and bacteria during COVID lockdowns and school closures might predispose children to suffer more infections in the future.10
They predicted the decrease in viral and bacterial exposure that train your child’s immune system may result in a rebound of a variety of infectious diseases, including influenza and RSV) which is precisely what we’re now seeing. If a modified enterovirus gets added into the mix, it’s not difficult to see how parents might get spooked enough to start lining their kids up for more shots — including parents in African nations…”