>freedom of speech doesn't seem to be one of the protected characteristics
Freedom of speech in the UK is a qualified right not an absolute right which means we have no free speech in my opinion, it's nothing but lip service hence how we're got all that bullshit in that image you've uploaded. If anything it means it's malleable leading to the state we are now where no one knows whats fucking allowed anymore. The UK is in this mess because the establishment has allowed political correctness to take precedent over principle which is why in my opinion we need a proper constitution with a first amendment like the US. The only thing I would prohibit is the call for sedition mainly for the fact it will stop tyrants fucking up the country like they do in many other countries. By looking at what Theresa May is doing you just know that if she could take the position of supreme authority you just know she would be the next Maduro. It's better to have a stalemate of power than to let someone hold all the keys so I'm willing to limit speech when it comes to that point.
>The UK is in this mess because the establishment has allowed political correctness to take precedent over principle which is why in my opinion we need a proper constitution with a first amendment like the US.
Once you realise your lack of a written constitution was a neo-reactionary move to the U.S. constitution and founding of the United States you'll realise what hell hole you live in, and I say that from Zimbabwe. With a simple majority of 51% Parliament can do anything, and re-write anything. There is no checks and balances. Judges cannot strike down laws. The ironic fact is the Human Rights Act (which is going to be repealed) was the only time in British constitutional history you were able to find laws passed "inconsistent" which basic (limited) human freedoms. Your boomer class was too stupid to realise this and the red-tops blew up over abuses in slowing down deportations - forgetting the U.K. has never been good at deporting third worlders.
>It's better to have a stalemate of power than to let someone hold all the keys so I'm willing to limit speech when it comes to that point.
You drew the wrong conclusion. You need a system of checks and balances - one that limits Parliamentary sovereignty and the right of corrupt gerrymandering MPs in rotten boroughs to do whatever they want. Unfortunately you're too far gone.
