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NIGEL FARAGE’S Brexit Party has chosen a candidate for the European elections who thinks people should be free to watch child pornography and terror videos online.
“Free speech” fanatic Claire Fox told the Telegraph: “I do not want to give the state and the authorities the right to ban things on the internet — no ifs.”
When questioned, she said this included child abuse and terrorism videos, even though she felt they were “vile” and “illegal.”
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL