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"I find the defendants to be not guilty on the grounds of it being true."
I mean, he is in the conservative party, and people might say that he floated to the top.
Iain Duncan Smith is Tory Scum
Also it's bullshit that "using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent" is even something you can be prosecuted for IMO.
Man has to live with a court finding you to legally be scum
Lmao, get fucked Tory Scum
This is from the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act
154(4A)
A person is guilty of an offence if, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, he— (a)uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or (b)displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting,thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress.
It's so sweeping virtually anything bad tempered said in public can get you arrested.
It's an insanely authoritarian law.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two protesters were “reasonable” in calling Iain Duncan Smith “Tory scum” outside the Conservative party conference, the high court has ruled, in a rejection of an attempt to overturn their acquittal.
In response to a request for a judicial review from the director of public prosecutions, the high court found that Judge Goldspring, who is also described as a chief magistrate, had made the important finding that “the use of Tory scum was to highlight the policies” of Duncan Smith, and that this was relevant to the “reasonableness of the conduct” in relation to the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
There was nothing to undermine Goldspring’s conclusion that criminalising the words “Tory scum” would be a disproportionate interference in the two protesters’ rights, the high court ruled.
As Duncan Smith crossed the road, an individual ran up behind him and placed a traffic cone on his head.
Neither of the protesters had been aware of or encouraged the act of putting a traffic cone on Duncan Smith’s head.
Their comments came after Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, had been recorded at her party’s conference describing the Conservatives as “homophobic, racist, misogynistic … scum”.
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