Mike, does free speech exist in the UK right now?

I don't think so. There are lots of things you can't say.

12,000 posts a year, people are arrested more than any other country by 300%?

More than China, more than Russia, more than that.

What is the honest state of the UK right now?

F***. Number one immigration. You know, they're talking about putting a mosque in the Lake District district because not enough Muslims go to the countryside. And what do you think about that? I think it's totally insane. Do you give the state the power to say, you can't say that? Do you know, I don't really have any regrets. We all do. If there's anything to regret, I regret if I caused anybody any pain. What's a secret you've never shared or a story you've never told?

Mike, does free speech exist in the UK right now?

I don't think so, would be my answer, because there are lots of things you can't say.

What like?

Well, funnily enough, I actually did this the other day on my show.

I started slagging off women's football because you can't say that women's football's

crap because you immediately then labeled some kind of misogynist or somebody that doesn't

understand, you know, women or, you know what I mean?

So it's not, and so by that, I mean, nobody's going to stop me saying it now because I'm on YouTube.

But I couldn't really say it when I was working in a kind of what you would call the mainstream media.

I mean, I don't know if you've seen this week the row between Simon Jordan and any

Aloku who is a women's footballer who used to

play football and is now a commentator. And there's been a big row

because basically quite a lot of people have had a go. And if you remember

Joey Barton had a go at her and was immediately kind of, you know, slapped down. So I think people are frightened to say things. And so therefore, if they're frightened to say things because of what the consequences might be, then that tells me there isn't free speech because you shouldn't be frightened to say things. Well, I mean, surely there's some things you should be frightened to say. I'm not sure they should be. Like inciting violence. Well, yeah, but there's already rules against that. I mean, there's already a law, which will kick in if you start inciting violence. You know, if you start telling people to, you know, go and commit crime or, you know, start a riot or something like that. You know, there's already criminal codes that deal deal with all that. But it also seems if you share your opinion, you can get arrested. Apparently so. 12,000 posts a year. People are arrested in the UK, more than any other country by 300%. More than China, more than Russia, more than that. Sure. And in Essex, I think it's right to say that there's something like, it's a funny number, but it's something like 1.2 people a day are arrested for something that they've put on social media. And what do you think about that? I think it's ridiculous. I think it's totally insane, you know? Why is it happening? Because I think for two reasons, we've got a sort of, I think woke is an overused word,

but we've got a sort of woke establishment which is left-leaning, which has been kind of infecting

and invagling its way in to what would otherwise have been quite normal spaces, like the police, for example.

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