Thursday, 23 May 2024

Is freedom of speech less important than the right to protest?


Yesterday, in the rain, Rishi Sunak announced that there would be an election in July. I honestly thought it was going to be in January 2025, but it is to be on July the 4th. 

While he was making his announcement, someone played Things Will Only Get Better, the anthem for the Labour victory of 1997. While I thought it was hilarious, I also thought it should have been stopped.

I want our politicians to be able to say what they think. I do not think that the right to protest, as important as it is, should interfere with freedom of expression. 

My daughter disagrees with me on this, but with both kids revising for their exams, I cannot debate this point with them properly. But she had fun watching me dance to the tune when it was drowning Rishi Sunak out.  She has a point when she calls me a hypocrite for finding it funny, and dancing, yet saying that using the music to drown out the Prime Minister was wrong.