Without it, we won’t be able to have better public services, less debt and lower deficits, or a fairer deal for younger people.
If you want societies that seek to impose virtue by force, leave the rest of us to muddled old Britain, and try Jonestown.
One of our best selling papers recently ran a piece promoting the views of an “NHS worker” who claimed hospitals were “empty” and Covid was a “hoax”.
In many cases, they are ridiculed, stereotyped and portrayed as somewhere between bigoted and racist.
His punt on it is a rational gamble.
Turn a blind eye, and every one of the other 30 Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be breached too.