There's a paywall, but here's the relevant bit:
Police officers told a shopkeeper to take down a sign calling shoplifters “scumbags” because it could cause offence, sparking a free speech row.
Rob Davies put up a handwritten note in his shop after repeated thefts that read: “Due to scumbags shoplifting, please ask for assistance to open cabinets.” But officers from North Wales Police attended his retro shop in Wrexham and told him to take down the sign as it could cause offence.
The free speech row comes after JD Vance, the US vice-president, told David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, that the West had become “too comfortable with censoring” and warned the UK not to go down the “very dark path” of censorship.
I suppose proper scumbags might take offense at being compared with such petty criminals. Not likely to sue over it, though.
2 comments:
IMO the shop owner (and the rest of formerly "great" Britain) need to do some serious reflection on who the real scumbags are.
Petty criminals just do what petty criminals do. They are not the problem. They are the symptom.
I fear parody is dead in Britain, because even Monty Python could not create anything so crazy as the official concern for the feelings of the criminals (or the purported concern, I suspect.)
LittleRed1
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