NIGEL FARAGE: The Left tried to silence my friend Charlie Kirk with wild slanders. Did they create the febrile atmosphere where someone thought it was legitimate to stop him talking for good?

The murder of my friend Charlie Kirk was a very dark day for American democracy. And it is a dark day for the reason for free speech in the US and the West, who lost one of the most stubborn champions.

Charlie was shot and killed while talking at Utah Valley University, always doing what he did: going to university campuses and boldly left to left, trans activists and everyone who opposes national conservative views – in their backyard.

Although the armed man remains in general, shooting has all the distinguishing features of a political assassination. Charlie was killed to close him: Cancel the culture, with a gun force. As President Donald Trump said, ‘Martyr of Truth and Freedom’ died.

I saw that the Atlantic celebrated its assassination on social media on both sides. Today, it shows the despise that they are real, freedom and common humanity.

I personally mourn the loss of a man I have been a good friend for more than ten years. I campaign with Charlie and socialized with it. My thoughts with his wife Erika and two little children.

Charlie’s loss will be deeply felt by President Trump. The two men were very close. I rarely went to Trump’s Mar-a-lago when Charlie wasn’t nearby. The President accepted his key role in gaining the support of young voters: ‘Nobody understood the heart of America’s youth better than Charlie or that wasn’t.’

I was only at Washington DC last week, questioned by the Assembly Judicial Committee. Coincidentally, the theme of my speech was my deep concerns about Free Speech and his pressure in England.

I talked about the dangers of the Orwellian Online Security Law, which was spent by Tories and applied by the Labor Party, which will not make our children safer online, but a serious threat to free speech for adults. And ‘Hate Speech’ laws and the pressure of England’s thought police, last month, Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan was arrested by five armed police officers at Heathrow Airport.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Minister Yette Cooper Charlie Kirk wished the condolences to the condolences of online, many of them were in the UK, many of them would probably lock him.

A piece after Charlie’s murder, I didn’t change my views on free speech. It is very important to live in a fair and democratic society.

However, I always acknowledged that freedom of expression is a single limit of expression – as I do – as I do. And then you cross the line from argument and view to violence.

For years, Charlie’s competitors tried to shout her by wrongly branding her as a racist, fascist and white superior. He refused to be silenced by Sanders, his attacks became more wild.

Did they contribute to the fiery atmosphere, which some inferiority think it is legitimate to prevent the individual from talking well?

I think that if political or media figures initiate a hominem attacks on the people they do not agree with, compare their opponents with the Nazis or mass killers over and over again, I think it means provoking. After all, why would anyone bother to argue reasonably with a Nazi?

Even on Thursday morning, after the murder, I was pushed to see that the left -wing commentator Nels Abbey called Charlie with an old leader of racist Ku Klux Klan in Britain in Britain.

This kind of inflammatory abuse brings up the disturbing question even in the hours after the murder: Who is next?

I am an expert in political abuse. In fact, in the last 15 years, I bet for getting more than anyone else in this country. As a result, I have had to live behind a security shield since 2013. I understand why some in politics stay away from public appearances.

Mostly, I acknowledge that this is rude and part of the rolling of public life. As I told the Democratic members of the Assembly committee last week, I do not care what they were flattened: this is their freedom of speaking.

Sometimes it goes too far. Only this week, the leading left-wing deputy John McDonnell, Leader, Reform I, reform, called ‘Proto-fascist’ and described me as a ‘demagogue’ of the 1930s. As the titles said in a concise way, he compared ‘Farage with Hitler’. If you want, if it makes you feel better, call me Hitler. Although it is often a sign that you lose the argument.

But – and this is a very important part – if you call such comparisons over and over again and make it a part of the mainstream political discourse, you may be confusing anger and hatred that can lead to terrible consequences.

There that Something that leading politicians can do to tempt the discussion.

We all – from all the ends of the political range – there is a great responsibility with our freedom of speaking and resting.

Of course, everyone is free to insult me ​​or my party. However, if we could honestly discuss the principles and policies, if we don’t attack personalities, our political debate, which is something that the hero of the left Tony Benn believed in a strictly believing, would be healthier.

And it must be a flat playground. For a long time, the left – usually supported by the authorities – tried to censor and silence the conservative and patriotic wing of politics. We must end the culture of cancellation and fought our wars instead.

Charlie Kirk must be a symbol of how to achieve this. He believed in free conversation so violently that he brave the intensity of the lion’s left -wing campuses, not only traded with insulting students, but to undertake their arguments in smart debates. After the disgusting assassination, we should not retreat to our political silos, and when we do not agree, we should not deal with unfounded, askid charges.

Charlie was shot wearing a T -shirt adorned with the word ‘freedom’. Let him be his legacy.