You can technically have your freedom of speech 24/7 because nobody can arrest you for it. The question really is can you have your position reinstated from where you’ve been banned?

Does this UKIP student’s suspension and possible exclusion stand because it doesn’t fit in with the ethos of UCLAN university, even if it is only the social sciences department and similar?

COYP

Both the student and the university have rights and responsibilities and which would triumph is impossible to know without being aware of all the circumstances. Even then there could be a difference of opinion so that the final decision might have to be determined by a Court or tribunal if either wanted to take it that far.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Unfortunately the following is what you’re doing and creating, only you don’t know it, don’t care, or look the other way. I don’t know about you but I want to be protected by people who are the best for the job. Sure, people shouldn’t be discriminated against and I also don’t like to see suited and qualified people to do the job. I believe in a meritocracy, not this bullsh1t.

[Link]

‘Too white to be a copper? Graduate, 25, who wanted to follow in his detective father’s footsteps was turned down by the police because he isn’t disabled, gay or black.

The son of a police chief who tried to join his father’s force was rejected for being ‘a white, heterosexual male without disability’.

Matthew Furlong, 25, had applied for his ‘dream job’ as a constable with Cheshire Police, where his father, Liam, 52, is a detective inspector.

He performed well in tests and at interview but the force was so desperate for more recruits from ethnic minorities or who were gay or transgender that it refused to hire him.

Mr Furlong, who has a degree in particle physics from Lancaster University, lodged a discrimination claim against Cheshire Police under equality legislation, and won.

It is believed to be the first successful case of its kind.

In a ruling last week a judge criticised the force for treating candidates with ‘protected characteristics’ – including those who were gay, transgender, disabled, black or from other ethnic minorities – more favourably than Mr Furlong, who was ‘a white, heterosexual male without disability’.

Mr Furlong, of Frodsham, Cheshire, declined to comment, but his father said: ‘I’ve tried not to get involved. It is such a political hot potato.

‘The chief constable is big on diversity, which is quite right, but it has to be applied within the letter of the law and they didn’t do that.’

The case came as the leader of Britain’s police chiefs called yesterday for radical laws to allow police to positively discriminate in favour of ethnic minority candidates.

Sara Thornton, chairman of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said unless changes were made, the rank and file would remain overwhelmingly white for decades to come. Mr Furlong’s employment tribunal in Liverpool was told that in 2015 chief officers at Cheshire Police launched an ‘action plan’ to recruit more black, Asian and female officers.

This followed a government review which revealed the force had no black officers, just five from Asian backgrounds and four of mixed race, compared to more than 1,400 white officers.’

COYP

Politicians’ answer #2.

Try after reading it.

COYP

All that bluster and you're just another Daily Mail lemming

Edited by Pussay Patrol (23 Feb 2019 8.00pm)

Paua oouaarancì Irà chiyeah Ishé galé ma ba oo ah