I think this is a longer version of the clip that was removed a few days ago:
YouTube has removed a video of former minister David Davis MP giving a speech against Covid passports during Conservative Party Conference. The video was uploaded by the non-partisan civil liberties NGO, Big Brother Watch.
YouTube removed Davis’ speech, filmed at a conference fringe event held by Big Brother Watch, for violating its policy on “medical misinformation” but did not specify what content had breached the rules. In a notification email to Big Brother Watch, the platform said: “YouTube doesn’t allow claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO).”
Mr Davis slammed YouTube’s claims regarding his speech as “potentially libellous” and maintained that the speech was “wholly accurate”.
In the censored speech, Mr Davis promoted the benefits of vaccination but warned that domestic vaccine passports are “illiberal, demanding that we an ordinary British citizen produce our papers to do something which is normal in our daily lives.”
This is a terrific speech, and shared with sceptics. COERCION is the word. I don’t remember David Davis’ history,or whether I should support him, but he seems a man of genuine integrity. If that’s what “Conservatism” means then I can cope with it.
Thanks Twirlip.
David is a fairly standard-issue, low-wattage rank and file tory. He once put himself up for leadership of the party. Didn’t get far. I think he’s generally thought of as on the leftward, very-faintly-pinko, social-democracy (in the special not very socialist and only pretend-democratic meaning of that term) end of the tory spectrum.
Mainly noticeable, I suppose for his general lack-of-efficacy, Palace-Yard-drone status, as with most habitual back-benchers.
Well, as a big fan of the Clark diaries I knew that: Davis and Alan Clark were pretty close and respected one another. Cut from similar no-bullshit cloth. Neither are/were under-achievers, imho. Shady Seff Efrikan connections both, too.
