Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

In citing the words of Mill, the hon. Gentleman in fact told us how that balance should be struck. The reason why we do not describe corn merchants as thieves when we are standing outside a corn merchant’s house is that the mob might throw a brick through the corn merchant’s window. In other words, we consider the consequences of the words that we use, and that is the point on which we should be focusing, is it not?