High level and high profile American politicians seem to be more and more willing to stick the proverbial boot into Britain over the issue of freedom of speech. This is something that has become especially noticeable since Donald Trump was elected as President in 2024.

There’s been a string of mostly Republican politicians from the USA drawing attention to Britain’s draconian and oppressive speech crime laws. Even the US Vice President has taken a dig at the woeful situation regarding freedom of speech in the UK.

Now it’s the turn of distinguished US Senator Ted Cruz to have a go at Britain and its oppressive anti-free speech laws.

According to the Breitbart website Senator Cruz ‘lamented’ the loss of liberty for Britons following yet another high profile speech crime case.

Breitbart said:

“U.S. Republican Senator Ted Cruz has lamented the loss of liberty in the United Kingdom after a former police officer was convicted of a crime for merely reposting a meme mocking Islam.

The Newton Aycliffe magistrates’ court found retired police officer Stephen Gray guilty this month of violating Section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003 over a supposedly “grossly offensive” image he shared on his Facebook account.

The meme, which was flagged to the Durham Constabulary by a non-Muslim neighbour, portrayed a man wearing a turban next to a rasher of bacon with the caption: “Fun facts about Bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!”

While Gray acknowledged that some may have found the meme in bad taste, he said he was shocked that it would result in a criminal conviction and a £1,000 fine.

Responding to a report on the case by Breitbart London, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) remarked: “No meme is criminal. The UK has fallen.” “

Brietbart added:

“Internationally, the UK has become one of the global leaders in terms of citizens arrested for posts made on social media, with the Times of London estimating that over 12,000 people were arrested for ‘offensive’ online content in 2023, or around 33 people per day.

The censorship regime has become a major focus of the Trump administration in the United States, notably for Vice President JD Vance, who warned in a landmark speech at last year’s Munich Security Conference that in Britain and Europe free speech is “in retreat“. “

It’s terribly sad isn’t it that Britain, one of the nations that originally formulated the doctrine of freedom of speech and which which exported the concept to the USA and which broadly achieved freedom of speech after many hard fights, is now a cautionary tale in this area. We built freedom of speech after much struggle and inspired others to hold freedom of speech as sacred only to see successive British governments throw that all away.

Britain deserves the opprobrium that is being dumped on it by US politicians it really does. Britain is now a place where the average British subject can notice the problems that have been created in our country but are forbidden by law from speaking about them in public. We can notice the invasion by illegal migrants, the failures of border control, the aggression of some minority religions, the crime brought by migrants both legal and illegal and perceive the damage done to society and individuals by lunatic ideologies such as DEI and Trans, but are forbidden to talk about such matters in public. This is a shameful and intolerable situation for Britons to be in and a situation that needs to be fought politically with all our might.

Britain gave the world freedom of speech but we’ve let our political classes gut that right until there is barely anything left. We should be ashamed that we’ve let the situation get so bad and work to change that by joining together to bring back freedom of speech and vote for parties that promise to give us back our rights to speak freely.