If you’re complaining about woke leftists “cancelling” you when your political persuasion has an 80-seat majority and a 10-percentage point lead in the polls, when you are one of an army of similarly daft right-wing voices queuing up to be talking heads on BBC and Sky, ... /1
when you write for publications with a right-wing editorial slant, which are among those with the widest circulation, when you have huge social media followings...

you are not afraid of “cancellation” and do not have concerns about free speech... /2
No, you are worried about being confronted with the ugliness of your views by people you consider beneath you. You have no interest in being held to account for your views. You wish to destroy any dissent from what is, in fact, currently the political minority in this country. /3
In other words, it’s your crusade against those with whom you disagree and your problem with their temerity to disagree with you that smacks of authoritarianism and not vice versa. /END
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