Freedom of speech isn't very important to the British.
That's not quite true.
The only people in modern Britain who are properly allowed to air their views are those with left-wing, liberal views. Any views which differ from the left-wing worldview are suppressed.
What annoys me is when, after the liberal lefty BBC broadcasts its show Question Time every Thursday night, a show which is broadcast from a different area of the country each week in which a panel of MPs, politicians, celebrities and business people answer questions on current events from members of the studio audience (usually delierately packed full of left-wingers by the BBC even in a true blue Tory area), a follow-up radio show comes on called Question Time Extra Time on BBC Radio Five Live. The show is hosted by a fat Northern Irishman called Stephen Nolan
and co-hosted by south Londoner John Pienaar, who is BBC Radio 5 Live's Chief Political Correspondent and they take question from phone-in callers about the topics discussed on that night's Question Time.
But Nolan has an annoying habit of cutting off callers, even in mid-sentence, who do not hold left-wing liberal views. If one of the topics was immigration and someone calls in and they say they are against immigration into Britain Nolan usually interrupts by saying "Goodbye!" and then cuts them off mid-sentence. Only those who hold left-wing views which the BBC and Britain's left-wing ruling Establishment hold are allowed to air their views on the show.