No Free Trade Without Free Speech: Trump, By Richard Miller (London)

Following on from the blistering attack that vice president JD Vance delivered to the Euro-elites, Trump has via the US State Department, issued a statement saying it was "concerned about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom" in relation to the case of an anti-abortion campaigner, the case of Livia Tossici-Bolt, who was prosecuted for holding a sign near a Bournemouth abortion clinic reading: "Here to talk if you want."

In a statement, the branch of the state department said: "US-UK relations share a mutual respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.

"However, as Vice-President Vance has said, we are concerned about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom. It is important that the UK respect and protect freedom of expression."

The attempt by Keir Starmer to strike a free trade deal with the US is threatened by the UK turn against liberal democracy, and its descent into totalitarian tyranny. An inside source has said that the US position, is "no free trade without free speech." Indeed, the two values are part of the classic liberal position and the US is quite right in insisting on this. Other nations should follow the US and apply pressure upon Britain to change. Elon Musk upset Starmer greatly, and was in fact investigated for "terrorism," for a X post which had a survey about whether America should liberate the UK. He surely meant in a political sense, not via the military.

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