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Welcome To The Land Of The Free… Until You Express An Opinion<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via DailySceptic.org,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The following is the introduction to\u00a0<\/em>Cancel THIS, a new book by Mike Fairclough.<\/em><\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s cancel culture is a purposely designed social credit system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Say the wrong thing, and you\u2019re done for. One \u2018offensive\u2019 tweet? Straight to prison.<\/p>\n

Say a silent prayer? You\u2019re nicked.<\/p>\n

Point out that men don\u2019t have wombs, or that climate change hysteria is exaggerated? You\u2019re sacked and shunned.<\/p>\n

Post a meme that contradicts a government orthodoxy or expresses concerns about illegal immigration? Congrats, you\u2019re now\u00a0persona non grata<\/em>\u00a0and at risk of being given a holiday at His Majesty\u2019s pleasure.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the land of the free… until you express an opinion…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Great Britain, 2025, where the air is thick with sanctimonious twaddle, and our inalienable rights are under attack from the self-proclaimed elite. Those pompous, hypocritical overlords of \u2018correct\u2019 thinking have decided our words, thoughts, and even our chickens need their approval. Free speech? In the U.K., members of the public are in prison for sending a single tweet. And just wait until they roll out digital ID (the so called BritCard) and the Stasi levels of censorship which will follow.<\/p>\n

The Establishment has closed its grip harder than Keir Starmer on free Arsenal tickets. Wielding censorship like a sledgehammer and telling us what constitutes \u2018approved truth\u2019 as though we\u2019re living in Orwell\u2019s\u00a01984<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But fear not, because there\u2019s a growing rebellion.<\/strong> Increasing numbers of Brits simply aren\u2019t having it anymore. They see through this dystopian farce, preferring instead to give it the middle finger. Our great nation isn\u2019t China or North Korea (though they\u2019d like it to be). Britain is the crucible of free speech and has long championed open expression across literature, the arts and politics.<\/p>\n

Amidst the madness, we salute a titan of liberty: John Milton, whose\u00a0Areopagitica<\/em>\u00a0in 1644 stands as a blazing beacon for free speech. With a poet\u2019s fire and a rebel\u2019s heart, Milton faced down Parliament\u2019s suffocating book licensing laws, daring to proclaim that truth thrives only when it wrestles openly with falsehood. \u201cLet her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?\u201d he thundered, crafting a vision of Britain as a place for ideas, where no censor\u2019s pen could silence the quest for truth. His words, a clarion call against tyranny, sowed the seeds for our nation\u2019s proud claim as a bastion of free expression.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s kick off with a story so absurd it could only happen on this sceptred isle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On October 5th, 2024, the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0ran the headline: \u201cDefra left with egg on its face in online revolt over chicken database crashes website, as pranksters list rubber chickens and chicken nuggets as \u2018pets\u2019.\u201d Our Government, in a fit of bureaucratic delirium, had decreed that every chicken in the land must be registered on a digital database. Why? To \u2018safeguard\u2019 us, naturally.<\/p>\n

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted on compliance, or face the wrath of a clipboard wielding official.<\/p>\n

Enter the Great British public, who, with a collective cry of \u201cNot today, mate\u201d unleashed chaos so beautiful it deserves a statue in Trafalgar Square. The website didn\u2019t just crash; it imploded. Defra described a \u201cHigh volume of applications\u201d likely hundreds of thousands, as the site was flooded with fake and ludicrous entries. It was a digital uprising, a masterclass in taking the absolute piss, proving we\u2019re not a nation of drones who\u2019ll nod along to every whimsical edict. We\u2019re the land of John Locke, who told the Crown to shove its gag orders, demanding our right to speak freely without a king\u2019s boot on our throats. His fierce call for liberty in 1689 still fuels our fight against the elite\u2019s assault on freedom, from bird databases to jail time for social media posts.<\/p>\n

This is why the establishment is \u2018decolonising\u2019 the English school curriculum and stamping trigger warnings on everything from Shakespeare to Aldous Huxley\u2019s\u00a0Brave New World<\/em>. <\/strong>In British universities, even\u00a0The Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0has been festooned with trigger warnings due to its potentially \u2018distressing\u2019 content. The ruling class don\u2019t want us to be inspired by stories of heroism, resistance, battling against the odds, and vanquishing evil. They prefer us to be fearful and obedient.<\/p>\n

This, my friends, is the beating heart of\u00a0Cancel THIS<\/em>, my new book. Sometimes, you\u2019ve just got to refuse to play the game. Mocking the authorities and saying, \u201cNo! I\u2019m not doing it!\u201d It\u2019s signing up your nan\u2019s ceramic cockerel to a government database just to watch the system choke. It\u2019s laughing at the po-faced Establishment which lectures us on what to think and say. These hypocrites, with their private jets and public scoldings, want to police your speech, social media posts and your thoughts. They\u2019ll cancel you faster than a reality show reject if you dare step out of line. And for what? To protect their grip on the \u2018truth\u2019.<\/p>\n

Silence and doing nothing are no longer viable options.<\/strong> Not if we want our children and grandchildren to inherit the country our forebears sacrificed their lives for. Every time you bite your tongue or self-censor to avoid the mob, you\u2019re handing them the keys to your mind. Our silence is their power. Compliance is the last thing we should agree to. If you let them, they\u2019ll have you bowing to their every whim and agreeing to unimaginable horrors.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why\u00a0Cancel THIS<\/em>\u00a0is part survival guide, part rebellious handbook, and a salute to the dissidents, oddballs, and anyone who\u2019s ever been told to shut up and behave. We don\u2019t just resist; we do it with flair, with bollocks and with our signature British humour. We\u2019re the nation of the stiff upper lip, the victors of two world wars, and we laid the foundation for free speech with\u00a0Magna Carta<\/em>\u00a0in 1215. We have a long history of curbing tyrants and fighting for freedom.<\/p>\n

This book also shines a light on the agenda behind the bullshit. It\u2019s no accident that almost every government in the world has turned on its citizens at the same time. Pushing harmful and illogical ideologies, punishing dissidents and seeding fear about everything from the weather through to the common cold. It\u2019s all part of a vision which is laid out by the likes of the United Nations and which our Government has signed up to.<\/p>\n

So, buckle up, tell the woke police to sod off, and let\u2019s rip into this global circus of pompous \u2018elites\u2019 who think they can nanny us into submission.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My book is your guide to living freely in a world gone mad. It\u2019s about laughing in the face of censorship, ignoring the establishment\u2019s nonsensical rules, and embracing the global fight for free speech with true grit and resilience.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s keep the rebellion rolling, one glorious piss take at a time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Fairclough was the only serving headteacher or school principal (out of 43,500 in the U.K.) to publicly question the rollout of the Covid vaccine to children.You can purchase his book,\u00a0<\/em>Cancel THIS,\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 07\/16\/2025 – 06:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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