Toby Young's Free Speech Union

alright so this entitled little chap who seems to pop up in various telegraph fluff pieces has started a Free Speech Union

reading the pages it's £50 to join, so maybe not that 'free' and it sources a rent a mob if you're a dick on twitter

and then he pops up on twitter basically rolling it all back and saying actually you can't expect people to support you being a dick?

https://freespeechunion.org/ (not sure why the emblem is a pencil rather than a mouth?)

and his car crash explanation of what you can't really say afterall https://twitter.com/aljwhite/status/1232353088926863361

Does any media personality not have a grift going these days?

The ‘join’ page has a smiley face with a zipper across the mouth... ...I find that quite hot.

honestly surprised he's not flogging some sort of "deplatformed candle" collection endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow

Toby Young is a vile little aunt.

hows that for free speech?

what wibble said

The list of ‘advisors’ is enormous!

I agree with his basic premise that ‘over-woke’ is becoming tedious... ...combined with virtue signalling it becomes a rather sad parody of true empathy.

"Regardless of your profession, or whether you’re a student or a retiree, we will come to your defence if you find yourself under attack for exercising your legal right to free speech, whether by the courts or the police, by your employer, by colleagues or activists, or by outrage mobs on social media and elsewhere." (Source his website)

I suppose this rent a mob will now demolish the courts and the employers.

I wonder whether any of his employees would like to say something about this aunt while exercising their right to free speech.

isn't that exactly what he's doing though fluffy except from a "entitled old public school boys coasting on inherited cash can be dicks if they want to be" angle

total twot

Why does this Toby Young chap generate such vituperative outbursts... ...even from Roffers who hardly ever express an opinion?

he helped set up a free school which is an immense sin on the left.

He's an appalling man. Regular readers will recall I live-rofed a train journey with him once, bellowing at the top of his voice about some village in Cornwall.

Because he is a lying toad, which has achieved nothing, a Trump incarnate and a dickhead at best.

What were you doing in 1st Class Dux? You'll never get that through the Lubyanka expense department...

Right, lets get some facts on the virtual table here:

Wibble: Evidence/example of vile khuntery

Laz: Evidence/example of total twotishness

Coffers: Evidence of lying toadery

He is a horrible little man.

The only reason he has any issue with free speech is because he has written many vile things that he doesn't like to be reminded of.

e.g.

In 2012, he wrote for The Spectator about the “ghastly” need for schools to be inclusive by having things like wheelchair ramps

why confronted he says stuff like...

“The reason for all this confected outrage, of course, is that I’m a Conservative and an outspoken supporter of Brexit.”

Setting up a free school is indeed an immense sin, since free schools are an absurd debasement of public service provision designed to give rich eccentric freaks and cranks more say over children’s’ education that people of their low morals and lack of common sense should really have over anything.

School curricula should be standardised and all state funded schools run by the expert public education bureaucracy. HTH

...and he failed in those even

fluffy - his antics are plastered all over. Just google.

I AM PROUD TO GIVE TOBY YOUNG MONEY AND I HEARTILY RECOMMEND THAT THE REST OF YOU DO TO!!

AND I DO HOPE THAT BROADCASTERS WILL TURN TO TOBY YOUNG - AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FREE SPEECH UNION - WHENEVER THEY NEED SOMEONE TO DISCUSS WHY NO-ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO OPPRESS US BY JUDGING THOSE OF US WHO ARE FREE-THINKING MAVERICKS BASED ON WHAT WE CHOOSE TO SAY IN PUBLIC!!

““The reason for all this confected outrage, of course, is that I’m a Conservative and an outspoken supporter of Brexit.””

He doesn’t seem to grasp that these are actually perfectly good reasons to loathe someone.

let it all out laz

Well I just googled and I got this, seems a bit of a weird thing to tag comic relief in

tob

I don’t hate Toby Young. I just think he’s a tOsser.

This Free Speech Union bollocks is typical of the man. Holding himself out as a great maverick hero libertarian when actually he’s attempting to create a bot/troll farm where he doesn’t even have to pay the bots/trolls, they pay him for the privilege of being organised to pile on where they would anyway. It’s almost as though he’s looked at the Brexit Party incorporating as a limited company and ripping off donors and thought “I could do that”.

He’s been an organic, free range, chateau bottled w**ker since long before he ever got involved in free schools.

He has also expressed deeply questionable support for eugenics.

He wrote a Spectator article (wasn’t caught out in an interview, actually premeditated this and presumably worked on drafting it) complaining about schools having to be “inclusive” that included a whinge “... that means wheelchair ramps, the complete works of Alice Walker in the library ...”, a piece which he later defended as being opposition to “dumbing down of the curriculum”.

That enough for you to go on as to why people think twotmeister is a colossal bellend , fluffy?

all free schools are shit schools

Toby Young is a dork no matter what his politics are.

He used to be halfway ok but I think his increased exposure on tv etc turned him properly ranty because he found a taste for being increasingly famous and much like Hopkins, it encouraged him to be more and more controversial.

He says no one has a right not to be offended...

...he appears to operate in the grey area that lies between free speech and offensive (no problem with that) and 'free speech' which is an incitement to hate (definitely a problem with that).

I question why anyone would deliberately want to operate in that grey zone.

because he is a complete chopper

hth

Merkz dahlink... ...your words always help.

If only they were whispered across crumpled pillows on a bed still radiating the heat of thrashing sex...

to be fair I have never seen Jackofhearts swear on rof. And this must have edged him.

I AM SICK OF WOKETARDS JUDGING US MAVERICKS FOR OUR HONESTLY HELD BELIEFS...

I AM GOING TO INCREASE MY SUBSCRIPTION TO TOBY YOUNG!!

I MEANT THE FREE SPEECH UNION!

I AM GOING TO INCREASE MY SUBSCRIPTION TO THE FREE SPEECH UNION!!

"I question why anyone would deliberately want to operate in that grey zone."

for attention

These people constitute his legal advisory council... ...does this bring credibility or are they tainted with the same mindset?

Rebecca Butler

Legal Advisory Council

Rebecca Butler is a barrister at Kings Bench Chambers. She is also trained as a mediator. She has a large social media following and often appears on televison.

Paul Diamond

Legal Advisory Council

Paul Diamond is a barrister who practices in the field of European law and is an expert on the law of religious liberty. He has acted in a number of controversial cases; including cases on free speech and Internet freedom.

Sir Patrick Garland

Legal Advisory Council

Patrick Garland is a former High Court judge. He was also the Senior Trial Judge, England and Wales, 2000–02.

John Jolliffe

Legal Advisory Council

John Jolliffe is a barrister who practises across public and regulatory law. He has acted in dozens of cases before the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

Spencer Keen

Legal Advisory Council

Spencer is an advocate with a broad practice. His main specialisms are employment, commercial law and European law. He appears regularly in the High Court, Employment Tribunal and appellate courts and tribunals.

Adam King

Legal Advisory Council

Adam is a criminal barrister in a leading set of chambers in the City of London. He defends and prosecutes in rapes and murders, and represents police officers in their disciplinary tribunals.

Graham Lodge

Legal Advisory Council

After some years in banking and commerce, Graham was called to the Bar in 1971 and practised until 2007 in civil, family, employment and criminal law. He set up a trade union called the Bar Union, since discontinued.

James Montgomery

Legal Advisory Council

James Montgomery has 30 years experience in the courtroom defending individual rights. He is a member of the New York State Bar and also the English Bar.

David Travers QC

Legal Advisory Council

David Travers QC practices predominantly in regulatory law, principally litigating and advising in cases concerning the environment, consumer protection, and health and safety, as well as associated governance, public law and professional disciplinary matters.

Prof Raymond Wacks

Legal Advisory Council

Raymond Wacks, Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, is a leading authority on privacy and media freedom. He has published numerous books on this and other legal subjects which have been translated into a dozen languages.

You are correct to question that, fluffy.

There is of course a valid reason for pushing boundaries if you have a valid point to make eg a concern that censorship (whether literal or as a result of excessive “wokeness” to coin a term) is resulting in stifling of debate and research.

But Young appears to delight in saying things that are calculated to be controversial, even wildly offensive to the point of incitement to hate without recognising that (a) people aren’t afraid of saying those things in public because of an absence of free speech, they’re afraid of saying those things because they’re the kind of things khunts day and (b) maybe some of the reason people don’t say those things in public is that quite a lot of the time they don’t want to talk bollocks that is of little value.

It’s funny, the libertarian right in the Conservative party always seems pretty exercised by people it accuses of “exploiting” human rights without accepting that there are responsibilities that go along with them.

But very reluctant to exercise responsibility with regard to free speech.

Almost as if “responsibility” is only a check on other people’s behaviour and rights.

I swear a fair bit on RoF. And in real life. What can I say, I have hidden shallows.

"all free schools are shit schools"

wrong again laz!

nope!

This is simply a reactionary movement to give back heterosexual white men the right to say what "everyone really thinks" about people of different races, gender, sexuality etc...