Labour-run council to fine people £100 for swearing in street

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The Free Speech Union, which campaigns against restrictions to individual liberty, has written to the council ahead of launching a potential lawsuit unless it changes course. The campaign group argues that the Thanet PSPO could criminalise, for example, a legitimate political protest outside the council offices, or a religious preacher standing in the town centre giving a sermon on “Christian beliefs about sexuality”

Henry Bodkin, The Telegraph, 9th August 2024.