Ministers order civil service chiefs to trawl FIVE YEARS’ worth of the social media history of potential speakers in order to block ‘extremists’ – and critics of government policy

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  1. I wonder if we’ll finally get rid of the commons, house of lords and monarchy when we start building the death star?

  4. “on the 19th of May 2020 did you or did you not say ‘at least Ed Milliband didn’t win or we’d all be eating bacon butties in funny ways by now’?.

    Take him to the gallows for sedition”

  5. You’re not going to find anyone with a social media profile and sufficient expertise for it to be worth the civil service allocating time to hear them speak that hasn’t criticised some part of the government policy over the last 5 years.

    From right to left of the spectrum, from remainer to leaver, pro-lockdown to never lockdown, every expert will have criticised their pandemic response, and the partial failures of the furlough scheme and aspects of their stupid Brexit policies.

    The only people allowed to speak are going to be Dan Hodges and Lord ‘Grenfell’ Moylan

  6. Is this the “Cancel Culture” that the right have been warning us about?

    Or is that only when racists and other bigots get called out?

  7. I will try my best to go five years without abusing this racist, grey coloured Victorian nonce, but I have a feeling I may struggle. The body is willing but the mind is weak…and the provocation strong

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