The government’s sinister gagging Bill created an almost unprecedented outcry last week as a broad coalition joined together to tell the government to go back to the drawing board. Organisations as diverse as Shelter, the Royal British Legion and the Taxpayers’ Alliance slammed the plans as undemocratic.
Everyone had a very clear message for David Cameron: don’t gag democratic debate just because you might not like what people have to say.
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