No, this isn’t me. Since I’m not unfortunate enough to live in the UK where the Starmer regime arrests more people for tweets than most totalitarian regimes.
The London Times recently reported that “British police arrest more than 30 people a day for online posts”. London’s Met Police, who have been at the center of some of the worst speech abuses, maintain a secretive operation monitoring social media leading to almost immediate arrests. The Met Police arrested a staggering 5,332 people in 9 years for speech and 1,700 speech arrests in 2023 alone making London into its own speech gulag.
After a Muslim terrorist murdered 3 British girls, a 55-year-old woman was dragged out of her home, arrested and held for 36 hours for “posting inaccurate information” that he was Muslim.
Here’s a recent personal account from British comedy writer Graham Linehan, co-creator of Father Ted and a writer on shows like The IT Crowd.
The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. Not one, not two—five. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets.
If you guessed that the tweets either involved Muslims or transgenders, well no points because it’s obvious. Those are the kinds of speech you get arrested for. You can support Hamas. You can chant that the UK will be Muslim. You can call for the murder of anti-migration protesters.
But some things are too much.
When I first saw the cops, I actually laughed. I couldn’t help myself. “Don’t tell me! You’ve been sent by trans activists”
Linehan was then interrogated about the tweets.
Later, during the interview itself, the tone shifted. The officer conducting it asked about each of the terrible tweets in turn, with the sort of earnest intensity usually reserved for discussing something serious like… oh, I dunno—crime?
Now he’s been banned from Twitter. Not by Elon Musk, but by the UK.
I looked at the single bail condition: I am not to go on Twitter. That’s it. No threats, no speeches about the seriousness of my crimes—just a legal gag order designed to shut me up while I’m the UK, and a demand I face a further interview in October.
This is the current very real state of the UK. This is not a place with any resemblance to a free country. It’s Orwell’s 1984.