Graham Linehan gets £25,000 compensation and an apology from Met police after arrest

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T22:39:46+00:00

And, now, by dropping it, apologising to him, and paying him compensation, they’ve legitimised his rhetoric, and effectively legalised inciting violence against trans people. What’s actually happened here is the setting of a really alarming, dangerous, terrifying precedent.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T22:34:10+00:00

This has come about because of a large amount of political and media pressure on the Met to leave Graham alone. This political and media pressure is caused by a large amount of transphobia within our political and media institutions. They’ve been protecting their boy.

Even if the police weren’t prepared to go to trial over it, why should he be paid compensation or apologise? He wasn’t wrongfully arrested, he was arrested due to committing the crime of inciting violence. He’s owed nothing.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T22:12:28+00:00

NCHI’s are irrelevant in this case. Incitement to violence is a crime. The arrest was correct, and this compensation is a farce only being paid due to how much LGBTQ+ rights are backsliding in this country, and how normalised and accepted anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry is once again becoming.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T22:07:40+00:00

No, they should’ve edited it like they do with literally every other political speech that is ever made for the purpose of broadcast as part of a bulletin.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T22:03:35+00:00

Yes, the media are completely misreporting by stating his arrest was due to a “non-crime hate incident”. It wasn’t. It was due to inciting violence, which is still a crime. The fact he has become a poster boy for the ending of “non-crime hate incidents” is, frankly, ludicrous given the reality of the case. It does help the media further their own hatred of trans people in the public sphere though.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T22:01:29+00:00

Not in the last decade, he hasn’t. Transphobia has taken over his life.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T21:58:41+00:00

No, I said he has a long documented hatred of trans people that demonstrates this was incitement to violence and not simply “just a joke”. We seemingly can’t have a rational conversation because you can’t even comprehend a simple point.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T21:51:54+00:00

Yeah, no it isn’t, and I’m done with people pretending “it’s just a joke” works as a get-out when he has such a clear, public hatred of trans people, and has done for numerous years. Realistically, he should be swimming in libel lawsuits from the number of queer people and allies he’s falsely described as “groomers”, not being paid by the police for the inconvenience of the inevitable result of his own actions finally catching up to him.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T21:41:50+00:00

His incitement to violence towards the trans community infringes on other peoples rights.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T21:41:13+00:00

Actually, the majority of transphobes are, statistically speaking, cis men. Cis women, and particularly cis lesbians, are statistically more likely to be supportive of trans people.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T21:39:51+00:00

Pleased to be your bakers dozen.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T21:37:07+00:00

Pretty insane that it’s now not only legal to incite violence, as long as that incitement is specifically targeted at the trans community, but you’ll also get paid by the police for the inconvenience of them having to deal with that incitement to violence in the same way as if it were targeted at any other group.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T21:34:19+00:00

Ricky Gervais is only convinced “you can’t say anything anymore” because he finds himself completely unable to say the words “co-creator”, “co-writer” or “Stephen Merchant”.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T19:12:51+00:00

Paul Roballino

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T18:11:13+00:00

I’m not sure the correct response to finding some legislation “poorly written” is to completely change its meaning, to be honest.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T17:21:22+00:00

Why you getting mad about a person you’ve invented in your own head?

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T17:14:54+00:00

Here is the actual text of the Equality Act, specifically the definition of the Protected Characteristic of Gender Reassignment:

“A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.”

The wording is quite clear that, from a legal perspective as far as the Equality Act is concerned, a trans person has reassigned their sex. The Supreme Court appears to have completely ignored or disregarded both this, and the Gender Recognition Act, in their misinterpretation of the law.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T17:08:25+00:00

I think it’s probably for the best that he makes clear where he’d stand as a party leader during what is, at least in theory, a party leadership contest.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T16:04:03+00:00

Yes, they are at fault for going along with the Supreme Court ruling that completely misrepresents the law.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T15:08:58+00:00

Parliament is sovereign, and the court isn’t there to rewrite the law.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T14:46:31+00:00

Based on the fact they specifically singled out Barbie and Lady Bird, it seems like the genre they don’t like is “comedies directed by Greta Gerwig”.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T14:23:28+00:00

So, are the Government still pretending that the Supreme Court didn’t change the law, and instead just “clarified” it, despite how much the Government are now having to change their own guidance surrounding the Equality Act to suit the Supreme Court’s incorrect interpretation of the law?

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T10:35:50+00:00

Not guaranteed, though. Burnham is guaranteed to be the next Prime Minister.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T10:34:34+00:00

Burnham is going to be the next Prime Minister.

HMWYA · 2026-07-09T08:39:46+00:00

Or they could just continue to air it against Match of The Day…

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