{"id":88271,"date":"2025-05-09T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88271\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:32:26","slug":"lets-be-the-britain-our-grandparents-fought-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88271\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s be the Britain our grandparents fought for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its been a momentous week where we honoured the sacrifices of a generation who stood against tyranny, who fought and died so that Britain could remain a free nation\u2014a beacon of liberty, of democracy, and yes, of free speech.<\/p>\n

But as we look around today, I have to ask: what have we done with that freedom?<\/p>\n

What kind of country are we becoming when reports say a young generation no longer feels proud to be British \u2013 even saying they wouldn\u2019t go to war for this country \u2013 and, at the same time, ordinary working people feel they can\u2019t speak their minds without being branded, silenced, or shamed?<\/p>\n

Labour peer Lord Glasman has argued that his party, founded by and for working-class Britons, has created what he calls a \u201chostile environment\u201d for those very people.<\/p>\n

\"Matt<\/p>\n

Matt Goodwin says free speech is in a dire state<\/p>\n

GB. NEWS<\/p>\n

Labour, he says, has become a space where if you speak plainly, if you voice concerns about immigration, about Brexit, about the loss of community or nationhood, you’re no longer seen as someone in pain – you’re labelled far-Right, racist, sexist.<\/p>\n

We are witnessing a kind of thought policing that is chilling. Entire swathes of opinion – especially those held by the working class – are deemed unacceptable.<\/p>\n

\"KeirKeir StarmerPA<\/p>\n

We’ve replaced open discourse with corporate HR-speak, political orthodoxy, and a culture of fear. Even historic Labour heroes like Ernest Bevin would be considered too unprogressive to stand today.<\/p>\n

This cannot go on.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s strength has always been in its ability to host disagreement, to tolerate dissent, to be a place where people of all classes and creeds could argue their case without fear of persecution. That\u2019s what VE Day is about: freedom won, and freedom maintained. But we are drifting from that heritage. Glasman calls for a working-class insurrection – not of violence, but of voice. A reassertion of the values this country stands for: sovereignty, security, family, and above all, the right to speak freely.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to get a grip. We need to remember that freedom of speech isn\u2019t some culture war buzzword – it\u2019s the very essence of British democracy. We didn\u2019t defeat fascism just to muzzle ourselves with our own self-censorship.<\/p>\n

So on this week of remembrance and reflection, let\u2019s ask ourselves honestly: Are we still a free people? Or just pretending to be? If the answer is the latter, then it\u2019s time we made ourselves free again – not just in law, but in culture, in politics, and in everyday speech.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be the Britain our grandparents fought for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Its been a momentous week where we honoured the sacrifices of a generation who stood against tyranny, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,391,712,16,1259,15,6225,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-88271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-opinion","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-uk-news","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-video-news","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114479782014252925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}