Apart from the enviro-nonsence about ‘zero carbon’ Britain, the recent Queen’s Speech to Parliament contained much that will cheer British patriots. The government has promised to put right many of the political errors of the past ranging from closing ‘refugee’ migration loopholes and bringing in a points based migration system to, most importantly, leaving the European Union.

However, there was one thing that was missing in both Her Majesty’s speech and other government announcements and that is giving us back the freedom and liberty to speak, freedoms that were stolen from us by successive governments with the assistance of both the Left and of various Islamic groups. If Boris Johnson is serious about making Britain a dynamic nation and one with an open outlook, then this is an issue that he really should be tackling.

A country where its people cannot speak about issues, even controversial ones, without fear of arrest or of being fired from one’s employment, is not the sort of free society where new ideas are openly debated in fields as diverse as politics through to science. For example: A nation where people are fired from their jobs for stating biological facts about humanity such as there are only two fixed genders or a nation where young girls are punished by the courts for posting a rap lyric with ‘forbidden’ words in them is not one in which ideas both good and bad can be debated. Debate is essential for learning and without debate we end up with a nation of people frightened to speak and a people who are frightened to speak is anything but dynamic and inventive.

Those hindrances to freedom of speech that take the forms of ‘hate speech’ legislation need to go, they are a legal fiction designed and built by the Left to suppress views that the Left do not like and also suppress questions that the Left have few answers to. Words are not violence despite what many on the Left have said over the years and it is about time that the government recognised that fact.

Despite there being no express commitment to freedom of speech in the UK from the Government, I believe that this is the best time in a generation to push for Britain to become a free speech nation once again. It could even be a time when a campaign to give Britons the guarantee of free speech that we deserve by finding some way to emulate the US First Amendment to the Constitution, maybe by extending the free speech right for Parliamentarians as contained in the 1689 Bill of Rights to every British subject?

With so many Tories now in the House of Commons and many of these from constituencies where people’s voices on issues such as immigration, Islamisation, crime and the economy being previously ignored, there is an opportunity to press these Tories to support freedom of speech. There must be many new Tories who are less influenced by the Metropolitan Left than were many of those MP’s who came in with Cameron in 2010 and 2015. A lot of the Cameron Tories seem to be the sort who would have been happier in the ‘Illiberal Undemocrats’ rather than a party ostensibly centred around promoting such things as personal responsibility and liberty.

But, with a new renewed Tory Party and one that is taking its support outside of the MetroLeft there arises the possibly that many of these new Tories may be much more inclined to support personal liberty and freedom than were the previous incarnation of the Tory Party? This may be the ideal time, with a stonking Tory majority, the Left in disarray and more people beginning to realise their lack of freedom of speech, to strike a political blow for freedom.

I would most certainly suggest that people who are concerned about freedom of speech and the increasing misuse of ‘hate speech’ legislation to silence debate or even mockery of ‘protected’ characteristics, in the first instance write to their local Member of Parliament. Now if you are unfortunate enough to have a Labour, Lib Dem or a socialist nationalist representing you then you may just get a standard ‘we deplore hate speech, leave the laws as they are’ type of reply. But, if you are lucky enough to have a Tory as your new MP you may find that your pleas for your freedoms to be returned may fall on more responsive ears. Not all of the Tories will be amenable to bringing back freedom of speech, but it is to be hoped that enough are to make this issue much more high profile than it has been in the past and under previous Prime Ministers.

I would certainly include in any letter that you write to your local MP about freedom of speech to emphacise just how alien the idea of speech controls are to the modern UK. Britons used to pride themselves on this and say ‘I can say what I want, it’s a free country isn’t it?’ Not so much today sadly. I would also point out how ironic is that Britain, the country that via its great thinkers of the past, gave the world freedom of speech, now labours under these dangerous anti-liberal laws.

I would give examples of how ‘hate speech’ laws have been used incoherently and inconsistently and also talk about the chilling effect that these laws have on the ability for British subjects to debate how our society is run. Without the ability for the people to speak openly and without fear also affects how people engage with politics by staying away from the political process. Politicians need votes and they should be shown that there are votes in the issue of freedom of speech.

The election of Boris Johnson’s government with a lot of working class Tories within it for the first time in decades, is the ideal time of opportunity to press the issue of freedom of speech. I will certainly in due course put up on here my letter and any reply I get from a Member or a Minister and I would ask others who have done so to do the same. Not only will writing to MP’s raise the matter of free speech, or rather the lack of it, as a matter of public concern, but it will also help to identify those MP’s who are less in thrall to the Left and various communal grievance mongers who can speak up for us on the issue of the freedoms that were so hard won by our ancestors, but which have been removed by successive governments of both the Right and the Left.