You may as well close down pubs if you ban debate

Nigel Farage has slammed proposals in the Employment Rights Bill which could see people banned from pubs for talking about contentious issues.

Speaking on GB News, he said: “I have a little theory that every pub is a parliament. I’ve so often been in a pub debate where I’ve had an opinion and someone says, ‘hang on a second, have you looked at it like this?’

“And you actually can be turned around in a pub over a drink by the power of debate.

“And I think it’s pretty fair in pubs for virtually everything, within reason, to be up for debate.

“However, the new employment rights legislation, which is designed to protect employees, says that debates should not happen in pubs if they’re offensive to staff.

“And this could well include debates such as transgender rights and veganism. And if they’re being expressed in a contentious way, people in the pub could be asked to leave.

“You might as well close the pubs down!”

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