Caroline Russell, a Green Party politician in the UK, called on the Metropolitan Police to investigate anti-woke campaigner Laurence Fox over a tweet comparing the modern-day pride movement to fascism.
“This is the UK, not China,” responded Fox. “Good to know you would like to see your political opponents prosecuted for “hate”, locked up and probably worse. So thanks for proving my point for me.”
In a comment to Breitbart News, Fox said Russell’s call for dissident speech to be investigated proved his point about the authoritarian bent of his critics. “The west has totally fallen, and that’s the thing that concerns me the most,” said Fox. “We need to have dissident voices. If you don’t have dissident voices, you don’t have a conversation, you don’t have a free democracy, which involves lots of different point of view.”
“We cannot have elected officials calling for police forces to arrest political dissidents. I am deliberately provocative, that is the way i go about things. But it is very worrying that an official would call for me to be interrogated by the police. They want concentration camps for people like me — hence the swastika.”Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.
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