By GB News (World News) | Created at 2024-11-14 05:16:12 | Updated at 2024-11-22 17:23:16
1 week ago
After journalist Allison Pearson was visited by police for a "non-crime" X post, GB News asks its members if free speech is under threat.
Pearson, 64, was visited by officers on Remembrance Sunday last year after making a social media post that was deemed offensive.
In her first sit down TV interview, Pearson told GB News: "Because it was Remembrance Sunday I drew myself up and told them [the police officers] we are here today on a special day commemorating hundred of men your age who laid down their lives for the country so that it could be a free country and not live under the jackboot of tyranny.
"Here you are on Remembrance Sunday, coming to my house in something that I see to be against freedom."
Responding to GB News' live stream on X, Musk said: "This is insane. Make Orwell Fiction Again!"
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson also waded in on Pearson's "non-crime" incident.
He said: "This is appalling. How can Starmer’s Britain lecture other countries about free speech when an innocent journalist gets a knock on the door - for a tweet?
"Our police have their hands full of burglaries and violent crime. They are being forced to behave like a woke Securitate - and it has to stop."
During her interview on GB News, Pearson detailed her next steps when Farage asked about whether she would meet with the Home Secretary.
She said: "I'm going to probably go in for an interview. The Free Speech Union, which is a brilliant organisation, is helping me, and they're giving me a solicitor.
"So if I have to go into the police station and have a voluntary interview. I'll go in and maybe then we'll be able to find out what I'm accused of, and then we'll see how it progresses."
Essex Police opened its investigation against the journalist under Section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986, relating to material posted on her X account last year and said it allegedly was "likely or intended to cause racial hatred".
An Essex Police spokesman said: "The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed.
"An investigation is now being carried out under Section 17 of the Public Order Act."
However, Pearson complained about police prioritising social media post over other offences, including theft.
Is free speech under threat in Britain? Vote now and have your say in the comments section below
