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Youth charity boss who was forced out by trustees for criticising BLM’s “neo-Marxist” agenda is REINSTATED after they ALL resigned

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Mr Buckley was supported by the Free Speech Union, which got behind a counter-petition and found him top lawyer Geoffrey Davies. Speaking to MailOnline, Mr Davies of Keystone Law said: “In their anxiety to be politically correct the trustees simply ignored their contractual obligations. When they were drawn to their attention the trustees realised the dreadful mistake they had made and agreed to resign and reinstate Nick as CEO.”

Jack Wright, MailOnline, 23rd July 2020.

Charity Boss Reinstated After Free Speech Union Intervenes

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Nick Buckley MBE, who was ousted as chief executive of his own charity last month following some mild criticisms of the Black Lives Matter manifesto, is back in charge thanks to the Free Speech Union. As of today, the trustees who fired him have all resigned, new trustees have been appointed and Nick has been re-appointed as CEO of Mancunian Way, the award-winning charity he founded in 2011.

Guido Fawkes, 23rd July 2020.

Inaya Folarin Full Appearance on Sunday Morning Live

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“… cancel culture is not about criticism. In a democracy, free speech includes criticism, harsh criticism, debate, discussion – all of those things are welcome. But cancel culture is something very specific: it is a public vilification campaign, it is a dehumanising process which seeks to completely destroy somebody’s livelihood, to exclude them from public life and to completely disregard often decades of contribution that they’ve made.”

Debate with Inaya Folarin Iman, Konstantin Kisin, Kenny Ethan Jones and Chanté Joseph, Sunday Morning Live, 12th July 2020.

FSU General Secretary Toby Young and Guardian writer Owen Jones debate cancel culture on Sky News

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“Suzanne Moore, a Guardian columnist, wrote a column in which she took issue with some of the more dogmatic demands of the trans lobby, and 338 members of staff – writers at the Guardian – including Owen Jones, wrote a letter denouncing her for her anti-trans views… if you don’t sign up to every jot and tittle of the woke agenda, you’re a transphobe or a racist.”

Toby Young debates Owen Jones, Sky News, 12th July 2020.

What it Feels Like to be Cancelled

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It’s the mob’s weapon of choice – trying to take away their victim’s livelihood – it’s even happened to the cartoonist for the Communist Morning Star and the organiser of a gay pride parade… But what does it feel like to find yourself at the bottom of an internet “pile-on”? The Mail on Sunday spoke to some of the victims of “cancel culture” to find out.

Nick Craven, Mail on Sunday, 12th July 2020.

Toby Young: Since the explosion of the BLM movement more people have been a victim of cancel culture

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Toby Young from the Free Speech Union has said the number of people coming to him for help saying they have been a victim of “cancel culture” has significantly increased since “the explosion of the BLM movement”. Speaking with talkRADIO’s Dan Wootton, he said “[The Left] are living in a different reality if they think cancel culture isn’t real and unfortunately I think the only moment that it’s going to dawn on them that it is real is when the mob comes for them.”

Dan Wootton interviews Toby Young, talkRadio, 9th July 2020.

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