(I have attempted to write up what I said. This is a reconstruction of a spontaneous speech.)
It is an honour to speak at the fiftieth anniversary dinner of the Freedom Association.
The Freedom Association was established to campaign for individual liberty, freedom of expression and free markets. These have been the themes of my life in politics, as government adviser, Minister and writer.
Today they have never been more needed.
The forces of oppressive government, excessive laws, confiscatory taxes, bossy officialdom and the thought police are always threatening us.
They come from outside, from foreign tyrannies.
They come from inside, from government that places itself above the freedoms and wishes of the people it should serve.
Today we need to do more to restore our freedoms.
Our work is never done.
We remain under such grave threat to our liberties.
Freedom is our birthright.
Let us be proud of our country and all it has done to advance freedom in the wider world.
My grandfathers fought for our freedoms in the 1st World War.
My parents fought against German tyranny and conquest in the Second.
I have recently written a short book on what it was like to be a small boy growing up in a world of giants around me. Like most children it was a story of exploring and grasping freedoms. I remember land marks on the journey. Learning to walk unaided by an adult. The first time I went to buy something at a shop on my own. My first bike ride. The first time I had to stand up to my mother. Each brought a new freedom before I had the words and understanding to explain it.
If only those who now run our country would try out the equivalent steps of self government instead of hiding behind the international grown ups as they call them. Many in our establishment wish to infantilise us, transferring responsibility to international courts, to global institutions and to a mesh of international treaties.
I spent my youth reading too much history and playing too little cricket. I read enough to know that England pioneered freedom under the law from Magna Carta onwards. The UK led a progress to all men and women having a vote to determine who makes the laws and governs the country.
When I studied history we talked proudly of the UK having the Mother of Parliaments. We spoke of the English civil war fought to make Kings accountable resulting in the triumph of an elected Assembly. Depositions and Acts of Succession made even the kingship more like an elected post.
We remembered the successful wars against Imperial Spain to stop them annexing northern Europe. We read of the wars against Louis XIV’s and Napoleon’s France when they tried to expand and suppress free peoples by ruthless conquest. We studied the twentieth century wars to stop German domination of the continent. Our country was on the side of independent states, freeing them from aggressive neighbours. We were on the side of freeing slaves and enfranchising the workers. We cheered on the Great Reform Bill and the suffragettes.
Over the last sixty years the elites of western Europe have tried to create the unity that escaped them by conquest through imposing Union Treaties and common law codes. They have been building a Europe of lawyers, charged with regulating most aspects of our lives and business. It is all paid for by growing EU taxation, a money printing Central Bank and billions of debt. The UK elite was by large majority in favour of surrendering our freedoms by stealth, and placing us under the domination of international lawyers and a European bureaucracy with anti democratic views.
The UK public saw the dangers and once again proved themselves to be the allies of liberty and the champions of freedom. They voted decisively No to staying in the straight jacket of EU laws and taxes. They wanted a free country again.
Today we need to remind our government that the change we want does not include meekly submitting ourselves back under EU laws and control. A fundamental tenet of freedom is we the people decide who governs, and we the people can throw them out of office by our votes if they fail to do as we wish. A fundamental principle of the European Union is no country can change EU laws, decisions and governing personnel through a national election. European elections cannot change the Treaties or much else, given the power of bureaucracy and the reluctance to repeal. It is government by the lawyers, of the lawyers for the lawyers.
At home we see a daily erosion of our freedoms.
The elite want to remove the car from most of us. They see it as an environmental problem. We see it as our freedom to get to the shops, to get to work, to visit friends and go on holiday.
Those who most want to tax and ban us from the roads expect the chauffeured limo or the expensive taxi to be awaiting their trip to the next anti car conference. They replace freedom loving roundabouts with authoritarian traffic lights. They make us sit at a red light when nothing moves , instead of the freely chosen decisions of drivers ensuring a roundabout flows smoothly with no delay.
The elite want to stop people being self employed and innovating. Tax rules seek to make people stay as employees. EU style laws over product specifications and ways of making things impede change and block new ideas.
They seek to nationalise, to cut out what they wrongly see as the inefficiencies and extra costs of competition. Surely they must see that nationalised HS2 shows how state monopoly wastes time and money on an industrial scale? Do they really want more businesses to adopt the nationalised Post Office approach to employee management, sending innocent men and women to prison for alleged fraud?
So how do we restore our precious flower of freedom to this garden of England?
We do so by daily vigilance.
We need to challenge giving away our sovereignty, our birthright, to foreign institutions and lawyers each time it occurs.
We need to make again the case for freedom of speech.
We need to speak up for free enterprise, innovation and the importance of profits for success and investment.
We need to remind that wider ownership and savings creates a better society
We need to explain why the car is crucial to our personal freedoms
We need to explain how competition is always better than monopoly, offering choice and keener prices
We should uphold the idea that anything is lawful that is not expressly condemned by our statutes
We need to remember the rule of law is crucial to exercising our freedoms. It needs limited numbers of the right laws, leaving much to individual decision.
England was built on common law. We need to restore common law over Treaty law.
Long live freedom. Long live liberty. Long live the Freedom Association.
I
July 11, 2025
Well said.
“Today they have never been more needed.” this is certainly the case, Starmer as we can see clearly has political prisoners, Rayner is introducing work banter bans and they are banning criticism of one particular religion with a new blasphemy law. Other moves to stop organisations from pointing out the unscientific insanity of Net Zero and retain the BBC as a propaganda outfit on this topic and the illegal (irregular as Starmer and the King call it) immigration.
July 11, 2025
So Lord Robert Winston, professor and TV doctor who was a pioneer of IVF treatment, has resigned from the British Medical Association (BMA) over planned strikes by resident doctors.
Well Lord Winson is doubtless coping just fine with a large pension, his student fees and costs all paid for by a free grant for fees and living costs and now he gets the Lords daily tax free allowance of £332 plus some expenses and subsidised food and drink. If he stop and thinks he will find junior doctors from ages 18 to circa 32 get no net pay after qualification costs and interest on student debts, commuting cost, tax, NI, council tax and deductions. Literally zero net to live on! They work for circa 8-9 years just to repay their training costs. So how are they to pay rent, eat, buy a house, have and support children during this 14 years. They even have to buy their own medical equipment and pay for £500 exams etc. Hard to argue that zero net pay for 14 years is generous!
July 11, 2025
But Wes Streeting is trying to argue this while telling people they should not point out that Lucy Letby’s 14 life convictions are unsafe (as they clearly are) lest they upset the families involved? Why would even these families want to keep these unsafe convictions? And Wes Streeting is one of the more sound Labour Ministers.
July 11, 2025
Lifelogic
Understand your argument completely, but surely prospective Students/Doctors ask all of the necessary questions about pay, training fees, accommodation costs etc, before they choose to enrol, and then they make a choice to continue with an application or not. They surely do not go into the medical profession blind do they ?
IF I was in Government training would be free on the undertaking (signed contract) that when qualified they would work full time for the NHS for 10 years, failure to complete that agreement would require payment for training given.
July 11, 2025
Yes, absolutely. If you want to clear off to Australia after training, fine – that’s your decision – but you have to pay back the cost of training you ot get the Aussies to pick up your tab.
July 11, 2025
Well they pay for most of their own training already!
July 11, 2025
Indeed but NHS doctors pay has declined significantly while they trained to do it for 5 or 6 years. The other problem is the good doctors are leaving for higher paid regions some have no choice for financial reasons or to get the extra specialist training they want. Zero net pay until you are 32 is not very attractive and often only those with parental help can even afford to do it.
The latest attack on Junior/Resident Doctors is that the BMA are using RPI rather than the lower CPI for their figures showing the significant decline in pay. But A. MPs use the higher RPI for their pensions and B. Junior doctors personal inflation will be rather higher than even RPI as so much of it is rent, commuting, utilities, council tax… and this idiotic government is at war with landlords & so many are leaving the industry thus decreasing supply & pushing rents up. Other opting to take migrants though the generous government schemes pushing rent up again!
Reply Parliament uses CPI
July 11, 2025
To reply:- Sorry I had not realised it had changed – in 2011 it seems.
July 11, 2025
In one year 2TK has done more to curb our freedom than any other government in history.
What you write is very prescient and true to the mark.
I fear for this once great country being taken over by a cabal of Marxist traitors. We have to push back and push back hard.
July 11, 2025
Two-Tier is simply building on the situation he inherited.
It was the Not-a-Conservative-Party which imposed the Covid Tyranny on us – stripping us of our civil and human rights over a virus they had already downgraded from a High Consequence Infectious Disease because they knew it had low rates of mortality.
July 11, 2025
Indeed and very low indeed mortality for anyone younger than about 65. Yet still they coerced net harm ineffective and dangerous vaccines into them – even to children, pregnant women and even people who had had covid without issue. They also lied to us that Covid came from the wet markets and not the lab after gain of function experiments! They new this very early.
The Vaccines did huge net harms as is now very clear indeed. Has Sunak corrected his unequivocally safe lie/misinformation to the house yet? They also cost a fortune to do this net harm. Rather like the net zero luancy!
July 11, 2025
Give it a rest, PLEASE.
Off Topic is one thing….a fresh news item ….but its either Jabs, CO2 or your opinion on worthless Uni degrees.
yawn.
July 11, 2025
Mickey Taking:-
Well they go on about the contaminated blood scandal, the post office scandal, the various marternity scandals, the Shipman murders, the Mid Staffordshire scandal, the Morecambe Bay maternity failures, the Bristol heart surgery scandal, the Gosport War Memorial Hospital… The Covid Vaccine harms are surely 1000X all these put together yet people like Sunak, Boris, Kemi, Big Pharma, the MHRA, the government experts still want to pretend. The more I look at the stats where they are not being as hidden as they are in the UK the more appalling it all looks!
July 11, 2025
LL – I respect your response….however, I don’t see almost daily repetition of the points you make. In fact they are hardly ever published on here. Different readers might repeat the lines but you go on and on and on.
July 11, 2025
Rayner is presenting as the worst kind of authoritarian; trying to introduce a definition of ‘islamophobia’, as though that isn’t an attempt to restrict free speech, then ‘banter’ law. What next? Is she personally this way inclined or is this the thinking behind the No 10/11 cabal to curtail historic freedoms? A very dangerous PM in waiting.
July 11, 2025
As to banter in the workplace – I don’t like it and it’s dangerous to allow it. The change that needs to take place is to make the individual responsible, not the company. At present, the Equality Act is a vehicle for belligerent employees to exploit the compensation claim industry. No good employee wants to make himself a legal adversary of his employer.
July 11, 2025
Indeed in waiting and a very dangerous one in office too.
July 11, 2025
Negative growth figures today, so Reeves’s Growth, Growth, Growth rain dance is not working (when all her & Starmer’s, Ed’s, Lammy’s, Raynor’s, and Cooper Balls policies are clearly hugely anti-growth in every way).
How very surprising dear! Never mind go and have another little cry and push interest rates up again!
July 11, 2025
Any comment on Lord Hermer’s moves on International laws to cripple the government JR.
A good podcast by Barrister Steven Barrett.
https://sbarrettbar.substack.com/p/is-international-law-prime?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3346460&post_id=168019027&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=22obwh&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Reply. Yes of course I oppose them. Braverman’s legal guidance was much better.
July 11, 2025
To reply +1
July 11, 2025
@Lifelogic – fight the people, and never stop the fight.
All religions, beliefs, political religions that see they are above being challenged, should be banned by thier very nature they are against and fighting society
July 11, 2025
Vicarious liability killed Christmas parties.
This will end friendships at work.
July 11, 2025
Indeed – about 5 people I know met their wifes or husbands at work!
July 11, 2025
A very carefully thought out speech. I agree with the gist of it but haven’t got the time today to give it the detailed analysis it deserves.
July 11, 2025
I was never a fan of the Freedom Association or the McWhirters.
I remember the Grunwick dispute.
July 11, 2025
So do I but why, they were both good & well intentioned men.
Ross McWhirter was sadly assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on November 27, 1975. He was shot dead outside his home in Enfield, London, after offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for terrorist bombings.
July 11, 2025
Oh gosh, I didn’t know that.
July 11, 2025
He was shot in his doorway in front of his wife and children.
He was more effective than the Government.
His lawyers then ‘lost’ his valuable stamp collection (British only) – ‘taken by a relation of one of the partners’.
Norris had to fight the company and was told later that he ‘nearly bankrupted them’.
Funny perspective, I would have thought the thief had nearly bankrupted them.
Maybe the start of the rot of Britain.
July 11, 2025
Says a lot about you.
The McWhirter Twins were the best of their generation. And that was The Greatest Generation.
They got very little wrong. Every detail was correct, every conclusion logical, every action spoke of bravery, honour and excellence.
July 11, 2025
I second that, well said.
July 11, 2025
Hi sir john
So how do stop one man going against the freedom of voting for independence
With out any choice being given to the people or discussing in parliament
We are Not living in good times
It would be good for you to join Reform
To help save our country you always seem to know what to say or do
Why did you not go to the top in politics
July 11, 2025
He got very close George, problem was he was significantly more clever and able than the who got to the top of the greasy pole, and that ability and comparison would then have become obvious.
I would have been more than happy if he had become Chancellor, a position which I think J R would have excelled, but again for the same reasons as above, he was never chosen.
July 11, 2025
Exactly. And for the same reason Farage would never tolerate JR. The bar in Reform is limbo level.
July 12, 2025
Never chosen, perhaps as he was right on the ERM/Euro and on climate change. Thatcher idiotically preferred John Major who failed nearly all his O levels including maths! A man unsuitable to be so much as a primary school teacher let alone PM or Chancellor.
July 11, 2025
Agreed.
July 11, 2025
Aye Aye to all you say.
Trial by jury is now under threat. As is the dilution of all you espouse by our continued porous borders, and few in this ragbag Parliament with any desire to effectively halt it. Cooperation of the sort espoused by France equates with the terminally infected nursing those it wishes infected. What will be Starmers next blow against all you highlight.
July 11, 2025
+1 so we have judges alone like the dire six (was it) Judges who twice turned down Lucy Letby’s right to appeal her clearly unsafe 14 convictions!
Or the three who said of Lucy Connolly “there is no arguable basis on which it could be said that the sentence (of 31 months for a silly tweet, pleaded guilty, first offence and with many mitigating factors) imposed by the judge was manifestly excessive. The application for leave to appeal against sentence therefore fails and is refused.
July 11, 2025
magna carta be damned
July 11, 2025
Yes we are being constrained and strangled very slowly by stealth, with ever increasing rules, regulations, taxes, and laws.
July 11, 2025
Not even that slowly!
July 11, 2025
I can’t think of a single thing that isn’t taxed
July 11, 2025
Sir John,
The WHO’s latest power grab comes into force next weekend unless our government opts out. There is to be no debate as I understand it.
From 19th July, the WHO will have very sweeping powers to do the following….
Declare a global health emergency;
Impose digital health IDs and vaccine passports;
Enforce censorship of ‘disinformation’;
Track and surveil our movement in real time.
Why isn’t this being shouted from the roof tops?
July 11, 2025
Why indeed? Perhaps ask the Freedom Association why they aren’t bothered about it. Nothing on the subject on their blog since 2022, and no campaign against the WHO’s power grab against everyone in this country.
July 11, 2025
@Cliff.. Wokingham. and who voted for the WHO? Our, the UK’s Legislators have refused the job they are paid to do an handed it to the unelected unaccountable in Foreign Lands
July 11, 2025
Cliff
A good question!
A variety of platforms have highlighted this subject. There’s so many different battles needing to be fought that perhaps there are other battles more pressing!
Together Declaration have discovered with a FOI request;
“The UK Government has quietly admitted it holds thousands of documents relating to its involvement in global digital governance and digital ID programmes led by the UN and World Economic Forum.”
The FCDO confirmed it is participating in initiatives related to:
– Digital identity
– “Trust frameworks”
- Digital public infrastructure.
So I suspect the WHO treaty will be signed!
July 11, 2025
You give me hope John . Thank you.
July 11, 2025
Good morning
With respect, Sir John it is not so much about freedom, but power. The State wants evermore power and, with each and every step, we lose evermore of our freedom.
We also have to take into consideration that the law’s on the continent dictate what people can do , whereas traditionally laws in our country , i’ve always dictated that things are weak , not do. It is.
This fundamental difference that gives us the freedoms that we have long enjoyed. Freedoms that we have now seem to have lost.
July 11, 2025
A nice speech Sir John, but we won’t get our ancient freedoms restored by explaining to the Authoritarians who infest the British Establishment how we are being inconvenienced by their actions and asking them nicely to restore them.
No captive/slave ever got their freedom back by asking their gaoler nicely to open the prison door. We’re going to have to “blow the bloody doors off.”
The only non-violent means we have of doing that is through the ballot box and voting for the only Party which says it intends to do just that. So, if you really want reform, you are going to have to vote for it. Because the only alternative to peaceful change through the ballot box, is violence …. and we really don’t want the Civil War which Prof David Betz is predicting.
July 11, 2025
Freedom is our birthright. A sentiment many once took for granted, the expression ‘it’s a free country’ often seemed to suffice to end quarrels.
Now a personal dispute, with no violence or long term harm, can find one half of the party involved receiving a knock at the door.
It seems at times that freedom lies with those who don’t play fair. Fairness is another cornerstone we took for granted.
Criminal elements, the anti-social, all seem able to dictate how those around them live.
We now have generations who don’t seem to understand the give and take that is needed for a free society to function.
The current government certainly doesn’t, by releasing often violent people early from prison to disrupt decent people’s freedom.
A whole set of people who want anyone and everyone gagged, and indeed imprisoned, that dares to hold a different point of view.
That’s how dictatorships are made isn’t it?
Much of the erosion of our freedoms has been window dressed to look like progress in society, such as the equality/diversity mantra, social cohesion etc. The public have dutifully gone along, but I feel this is changing, thank goodness.
Any valid difference of opinion, or just plain contrariness, is now branded with an ‘ism’ or a ‘phobia’.
All this has led to a less free society, a more distrustful society and if the blasphemy by the back door law goes ahead, then probably a completely unrecognisable society.
July 11, 2025
I agree, Sovereignty is King and bureaucracy surrounding the motor Car is one example. Delay use of self driving motor cars is a prime example. Government is delaying the regulation of self driving cars until the Europeans have caught up with USA & China – so no economic Growth there then !
July 11, 2025
Freedom is not a birthright. It must be defended and fought for in each generation. It is easily lost as we have seen.
July 11, 2025
Those fighting for their freedom in Ukraine would appreciate Sir John’s improptu speech at the meeting.
At last, it looks like POTUS Trump – who should definitely get the Nobel peace prize for saving the world from a nuclear armed Iran – has seen the light over arming Ukraine. Despite having a fatwa placed on him by one of the Ayatollahs.
Putin, the war criminal, has responded to Trump’s reasoned ceasefire proposals by yet more bombing of Ukraine civilians. In his arrogance, Putin has managed to persuade the N Koreans to provide another 15,000 conscript troops for service as blocking troops behind the front – whilst threatening NATO with a nuclear attack should they respond by putting boots on the ground in Ukraine
Yesterday Putin’s lackey, the foul-mouthed Lavrov, was pictured on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Malaysia getting jabby with the index finger at Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state. Many are surprised that Rubio’s Secret Service minders failed to knock the man down
With Emperor Xi apparently incommunicado and in the throes of a coup attempt in Beijing, now would be an excellent time for Trump to issue the Russians an ultimatum of his own.
July 11, 2025
Do you mean the men kidnapped off the streets, trussed and often unconscious – taken to the front lines to die – those people ‘fighting for freedom’.
Freedom to do what? Kill Russian speaking civilians in their homes? That freedom?
Remember that when the vigilantes become active in the U.K. and you are forced to ‘fight for them’.
July 11, 2025
This is what the Conservative leadership, and the whole Party should be saying, but all we get is silence.
July 11, 2025
WL, I agree with your succinct comment on Sir John’s excellent submission.
Whether it be Reform or the Conservatives certain things need to be clearly laid out as a proto-manifesto.
Is it so difficult to state that, when in government, the Party will stand for the people of this country?
Clearly declare that ‘hate crimes’ will be abolished, borders will be secured to the satisfaction of the British people, net zero ambitions will cease, markets will dictate introduction of green and ‘sustainable’ developments, regulatory bodies will be severely pruned in number and remit, our police forces will return to the function and ethos that we all recognised since Peel.
For years under the Blair government there was a cry to the spavined and supine Conservative opposition to Make the Argument. They never did, and we had the shameful ‘nasty party’ nonsense and a successor to Blair with no plan worth voting for, and I, for one, did not vote for that limp lettuce LibCon government or any that followed it.
Sir John states it all so beautifully, surely it can be adopted as a reassuring rallying call to the country, it is desperately needed.
Then the voters will decide.
July 11, 2025
+1
July 11, 2025
Sir John
A good and great synopsis of how we should live our lives and advance -‘individual liberty, freedom of expression and free markets.’
However when you look at the actions taken by the UK’s Parliament, its Legislators, the Government they will fight that ideal at every opportunity. They through seemingly personal and political ideology (terrorism) will fight any of those ideals getting off the ground.
July 11, 2025
Sir John – this might seem off topic, until you reflect on the top to bottom attitude of people whose ego tells them they are the authority, the law. They don’t even recognise they were lent the power on our behalf.
Here in Wokingham, in June the local council change the road laws for all the through roads. Essentially there is now a blanket maximum speed of 30mph on all the through routes. When asked about it by the media about posing the question how did they informed everyone in the borough, or even the country for that matter (as there are other road users other than local residence on through routes) about these new restrictions the reply was it has been posted on ‘Social Media!’. The follow up question was then about the signage, the 40mph signs – they are not valid the speed limits it is 30mph by this new decree, and also everyone knows that if there is street lighting the speed limit is always 30mph.
What we have is the trickle down from our central Legislators, it is not only Lord Hermer (who voted for him?) making up the Laws to suit his personal political ideology it is everyone that thinks they have the power trying to do the same, the rule, to suspend democracy and the freedoms of the people. They themselves are above the ‘Law!’
Those we empower are there to defend ‘individual liberty, freedom of expression and free markets’ also ‘democracy’ putting it above political terrorism, personally ego and self-esteem. The Country has lost its way!
July 11, 2025
Yes, the 40 mph signs coming down with no fanfare, no warning signs, all done by stealth.
July 11, 2025
A good speech, capturing the problems we have and encouraging action to counter them.
I do, with some others here, think we who want freedom will need to get behind Reform. Yes, they are a rag tag bunch led by a charismatic but perhaps not entirely trustworthy leader, but what’s the alternative?
If 70%+ of the Tories were like you, they’d be the Party to vote for. But as you know well, very sadly your views (and mine) are only shared by a small number of Tory MPs, many of whom could equally well be Libdems or Labour followers, as they are globalists, not nationalists. They had their 14 years and it led us down the disastrous path we are travelling.
Although 4 years is among time in politics, I feel we should get our ducks in a row now, accept Reform as the last chance for recovering our nation, and ditch the Tories for them.
July 11, 2025
Great speech Sir John and your sharp insight and instinct are drawn to real freedom so crucial to everyone and everything and so key to happiness and long term future.
Many politicians today are shallow and charletons who are poorly educated.
July 11, 2025
The UK’s gross domestic product (GDP) in May declined unexpectedly by 0.1pc during the month, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
It followed a 0.3pc downturn in April.
Caveat’, the ONS’s to paraphrase their own T&C of use, say their figures are never correct, as a taxpayer funded organisation they are up there with the other taxpayer throw away the BoE & OBR on the credibility rating table
July 11, 2025
Excellent SirJ, I support your words, keep pushing we’re behind you
July 11, 2025
Est 600+ criminals were smuggled, in plain sight, into the UK yesterday on the 10th July from France…
July 11, 2025
any more gendarmes wading in and slashing dinghies? Cameramen with them?
No? I thought not.
July 11, 2025
Update – recorded number 573
July 11, 2025
Rousseau’s “Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains” is ever more true as the ability of labour to claim its share of rewards on offer has diminished over the last forty or so years in favour of capital to leave bleak prospects, particularly so for those at the beginning of their working life. The idea that doctors would struggle financially would have been seen as fanciful in the 1980’s. AI will make employment prospects much worse.
A consequence is that fewer people, especially the young, will recognize and value the benefits the various freedoms bring with the further consequence that they will exert no effort to defend those freedoms. Will the Freedom Association celebrate its centenary?
July 11, 2025
Congratulation very well said and put.
I’ve never heard of the Freedom Association, can you enlighten me more on it?
Where are they, who runs this Association, do they have members and where are they based?
Also given your speech, do you intend to attend the freedom rally to be held in London on 13th Sept, with I understand the Prime Minister of Poland & Hungary, Jordan Peterson from Canada, Steve Bannon from US plus others in attendance.
Thank you again, regards
Tim
July 11, 2025
“The elite want to remove the car from most of us. They see it as an environmental problem. We see it as our freedom to get to the shops, to get to work, to visit friends and go on holiday.”
The first goal of Net Zero is to sabotage our energy, economy, national security and democracy. The second goal is to control us through the electrification of heating and travel combined with individual remote controlled smart meters in homes and vehicles. One flick of a switch and off goes your heating, all your home appliances including your fridge, freezer and router, perhaps by then even your water, and then your ability to use your car. Hence the CAGW lies and the Net Zero “solution” requiring expensive and impractical electrification.
July 11, 2025
Correct. It’s about rationing, reducing your standard of living, mass surveillance and CONTROL.
July 11, 2025
@Original Richard – most EV’s are controlled where ever they are from within their Country of manufacture. Vehicles of all types leaving the EU since July 2024 are by law controlled directly by their home manufacturer and authorities.
Many years back during a the hurricane season in Florida the locals were told to leave if they could. Those with early Tesla’s didn’t have the range to get out. Elon Musk to the rescue he flipped a switch at HQ and they all had the range needed – that facility works in reverse
July 11, 2025
Ian B : “@Original Richard – most EV’s are controlled where ever they are from within their Country of manufacture.”
So all the Chinese evs we are importing are controlled by China? No doubt fitted with kill switchs as the solar panels we import from them?
July 11, 2025
Very good Sir John.
A small edit of one line in your speech if I may.
It should read on the Gettysburg government line, simply.
International subjugation of the people, by the lawyers, for the lawyers.
I accept that does not scan as neatly.
I would also offer this to induce a mental image.
Only democracy can provide the light capable of illuminating the ever narrowing path of freedom.
July 11, 2025
+1
July 11, 2025
@Rod Evans +1 well said
July 11, 2025
I agree with most points , however we now have a different social mix,with many people’s who just wait to be told what to do.They have led different younger lives and follow their own religious,/ social rules dominated by a few.
The way law is lightly used by agreeing with those in better paid positions is a change in the last 30years.We find a monopoly of persons who agree shape a direction which uses clanning instead of truth to put people down.
I am not convinced that islands would be an improvement to traffic lights in reflection of the ‘boy racers’ who cut us up.I have always had brisk reflexes having played badminton for many years and if that wasn’t so I may not have avoided those who abuse traffic vidland rules.
July 11, 2025
I am sure it was an excellent speech, and I agree with you. But how do we fight the Chagos giveaway? How do we fight the EU giveaway? How much more damage will be done in the next four years?
We have the weakest and most stupid PM, probably ever, as shown by his ridiculous one-in, one-out deal with Macron. World leaders, Trade Unions, and Labour MPs are aware that Starmer is weak and will always give in.
Is Starmer also lazy? He does not bother to read a speech before he gives it; he was too focused on foreign affairs to realise he had a problem with his welfare bill. What does he do all day?
But he follows a succession of weak Conservative PMs who did not stand up for or reflect the values you talk about.
July 11, 2025
@Keith from Leeds – a while back I would be agreeing with you on 2TK. However now on reflection he is probably cleverer than we think. He wants back in the EU, it hurt him personally when the majority did not agree with him and wanted democracy first. So what does he do he hands direct control to governing this country to the EU cabal through cleverly disguised back door traps. The Fish, now our Nuclear deterrent, he wants to send back 1 criminal in 7 on condition they are replaced with friend of friends. His friend and work colleague the unelected unaccountable Lord Herman was outlined a new order for the UK’s Legislators, in essence they are to give priority to anybody out side the UK to rule the UK – a sovereign democratic parliament no loner exists. All the while he is ramping up the poverty meter, not allowing UK industry/enterprise to survive or rebuild therefore he is impoverishing the Nation and its People trying to build up the way back under EU management. That is not weak or stupid, that is a conniving devious legal mind at its best.
After 5 years of wreaking the Country anybody new would struggle to rebuild the country, it will take another generation of povery just to pay the bills
July 11, 2025
ian B :
Agreed. You can add the false CAGW and its “solution” Net Zero as a very clever way to impoverish the country and conrol through electrification and smart emters.
July 11, 2025
PS :
Starmer is not inept.He is a (international) human rights lawyer who does not believe in the nation state and instead believes that anyone has the human right to come and live in the UK and bring with them their grievances, customs, religions, practices and laws from their home country and furthermore whatever they say or do will be allowed because they are (curently) a minority and HR legislation is specifically designed to protect them from the will of the incumbent majority.
July 11, 2025
Great speech. I hadn’t heard of this organisation. I think that’s part of the problem, getting the message out. They need to get on X and follow everyone who follows the Free Speech Union and like-minded organisations. Regularly post things people want to share.
July 11, 2025
Off Topic.
Unite says it has suspended Angela Rayner from her membership of the union, amid a deepening row over the long-running bin strikes in Birmingham. The deputy prime minister has been urging striking bin workers to accept a deal to end the dispute, which has seen mountains of rubbish pile up in the city.
The union said it would also re-examine its relationship with Labour after an emergency motion at its conference in Brighton.
Bin collection workers walked out in January, with an all-out strike going on since March. Unite is a major donor to the Labour Party, and has previously donated to Rayner herself.
Rayner had to get off the fence once part of Government. Reminds me of Michael Foot and mine closures.
July 11, 2025
@Mickey Taking – all political funding for candidates should be restricted to that from the community they wish to serve. You cant serve more than one master, at the moment it is whoever funds your campaign, then the gang leader of that grouping, that calls the shots long before you get to reflect on the electorate that empowers and pays you. The link has to be broken and democracy restored
July 11, 2025
Does that mean if you were to stand at the next election you would do so as independent in your area or just slip back to con party if asked with all that goes against your speech.
July 11, 2025
Sir John
Thank you once more for attempting to remind everyone what true freedom and personal responsibility is
‘individual liberty, freedom of expression and free markets’ + democracy should be shouted loudly every day. Then maybe, just maybe we will have those in Government, Parliament and as our Legislators will start to defend those principles as is their duty.
You mention the ‘Magna Carter’ a great document and a meaningful attempt to have all peoples equal. Its principles continue to inspire concepts of limited government, individual rights, and the rule of law. It has been used by a clarion call and adhered to by free nations of the World. What mustn’t be lost was that in the UK its rulers clearly didn’t like it, it took less than 10 years for them to pull it a part, and have been doing so ever since
Even at this moment in time our legislators of today are even tearing up what remains
‘No free man shall be arrested or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any way victimised, neither will we attack him or send anyone to attack him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.’
‘the law of the land’ – Starmer, Hermer and the rest of the crew that infest our structures are tearing up all that was meant in the intention of the magna carta, daily. Our Laws are now truly 2 Tier, our democracy is 2 Tier, our governance is also 2 Tier the control is syphoned off to Foreign Powers who have their own personal interest and domain to protect. ‘the law of the land’ is what is defined by the people, democracy – no one else
July 11, 2025
Off Topic.
The National Trust has announced plans to cut 6% of its current workforce, about 550 jobs, partly blaming an inflated pay bill and tax rises introduced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The heritage and conservation charity said it was under “sustained cost pressures beyond our control”. These include the increase in National Insurance contributions by employers and the National Living Wage rise from April, which the National Trust said had driven up wage costs by more than £10m a year. The cost-cutting measures are part of a plan to find £26m worth of savings.
“Although demand and support for our work are growing with yearly increases in visitors and donations; increasing costs are outstripping this growth,” the charity said in a statement, external.
“Pay is the biggest part of our costs, and the recent employer’s National Insurance increase and National Living Wage rise added more than £10m to our annual wage bill.”
July 11, 2025
@Mickey Taking – I thought it was their discrimination departments (DIE) along with the aggressive WOKE stance that was causing their costs to rise. As a Charity they receive an extra 25p handout from the taxpayer for every pound the recieve
July 12, 2025
I don’t know detail, but we decided to not renew our many many years joint membership due to the regular voting of the provision of recommended candidates for positions. Members kept being lazy and allowing the cabal, or so it felt like, to run the Charity. We don’t regret it.
July 11, 2025
‘They have been building a Europe of lawyers.’
Quite so, and I noted with grim amusement the news item today that said that while the whole of the country had failed to grow for the last measured month. the one and only sector that had grown was the legal profession!
July 11, 2025
It seems no one is free to say what they like today as youngsters often tell older people but everyone has their “human rights” instead what ever that means, determined by the growing lawyers industry. Definitely a money making racket.
July 11, 2025
Our politicians today are more like something from Fawlty Towers or Dad’s Army with some catastrophic mistakes like Gulf War 2 and Afghan. Blair the worst of the lot. His comedy more like a sick joke.
If we want more heroic, James-Bond-like leaders like Cyrus the Great, Joseph of Egypt, Joan of Arc then we need to turn more to God.
July 14, 2025
Very good but it is all trumped by the desire of our and EU ruling elites to be free of responsibility and accountability. Hence they create rule by supra-national bodies like the EU and UN. Their freedom comes at the expense of ours. We are back to 1215. It wil be very difficult to get a new settlement between the governed and the governing classes without violence. The general populace don’t even have any right or means to call a general election and throw them out. None at all. We must wait at their pleasure.
The Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 automatically dissolves a parliament after five years. As far as I can see there is nothing in that or any other Act requiring a general election to follow the dissolution. The government remains in office and is given the power to call a general election, but there is no necessity for one in law. As far as I can tell it is only constitutional convention that a general election should be called. The Institute for Government says:
“A prime minister ‘requests’ a dissolution. The circumstances in which that request might be refused are, however, ambiguous. The government has published ‘dissolution principles’ during the process of enacting the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act. This builds on advice from the 1950s, known as the Lascelles Principles, which set out how a monarch might refuse a request if a parliament remained “vital, viable, and capable of doing its job”, if an election would be detrimental to the national economy or if the monarch can find another prime minister who could “govern for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons”. No prime minister in modern times, as far as is known, has been refused a dissolution and the principles for refusing one have therefore not been tested.”
What is the betting, if it is likely Starmer’s Gang would lose, there will not be a general election in 2029 or any time soon after?