Member

I also absolutely support the amendment that says that there should be no public funding for certain groups, which are obviously Islamist extremist groups, and so on and so forth. It seems sensible—but those amendments are very specific and very targeted, and they allow us something to really think about before Report. However, a lot of it is about the fact that we have problems in society and we want to solve them, so we bring in sweeping laws that are going to be anti-democratic and dangerous for everyone, rather than facing up to and confronting the real problems that we have, which are often not legal but cultural and political and caused by cowardice and their not being dealt with by politicians. They cannot always be dealt with via the law.