00:09Free speech in this country is absolutely fundamental and that free speech includes
00:17the right to be offensive. I appreciate that there's devolved powers in this country but
00:23when it comes to things like free speech like children's well-being we need to come together
00:27as a collective. But I mean I think that's probably where we've ended up in terms of politics isn't
00:32it that a lot of free speech is what the left-wing lawyers would call far-right white-ringed Christian
00:39supremacy they don't like it. And because I want to protect free speech I've been branded a racist
00:44and a white supremacist. In a democratic society unless we can have a free and open discussion
00:52about our political leaders about the issues troubling us dividing society we're never going
00:59to reach intelligent decisions about how to address those problems. In order to get to the truth and in
01:05order to to devise creative solutions for society's problems we need people to be expressing their full
01:11range of ideas so that we get the full diversity of thought. What we now have is a system that
01:16tries
01:16to regulate speech by a set of a code of conduct that we're none of us too familiar with using
01:23linguistic
01:24rules that usually we fall foul of. A freedom that does not include the right to offend is not a
01:31freedom worth having.
