Why LydfordFS?

This site is primarily about issues local to Lydford. The aims of this website are clearly stated on the home page and it is hard to see how anyone could take issue with them. The content of this site is intended to support those aims.

Why FS?

Why the FS in www.LydfordFS.org.uk? It stands for Free Speech and this is important in any democracy. It is a feature of dictatorships that free speech and freedom of the press are suppressed and that access to information is controlled.

Fortunately in this country we have a democratic system of government and generally people are free to express opinions that criticise government policy. The Human Rights Act 1998 provides a legal basis for this in the form of a right to Freedom of Expression.

There are many quotations relating to free speech but this seems particularly apt:-

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell, Preface to Animal Farm (1946)