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Hope for England yet There is hope for England yet!
Wearing little more than sun screen, socks and boots, Steve Gough is walking the length of Britain to celebrate the joys of nudity.
The intrepid rambler insists he is not a nudist, but a person who wants to “enlighten the public, as well as the authorities that govern us, that the freedom to go naked in public is a basic human right.”
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This man has devoted himself to being nude at the expense of his family. His poor wife and children must be so humiliated! This man has had no respect for the wishes of his family. You should perhaps not be holding this up as “hope for England”!
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Boring… Berkeley had the “naked guy” back in the 80s. But I applaud this guy’s fight against flaired pants and fat belts.
Is Liz joking? I do hope so.
I don’t know that it is a very good sign for England when the man has been repeatedly arrested (and effectively abducted back to his starting point each time) while doing nothing illegal. If you’re a robber you have nothing to fear, but if you openly behave a bit oddly, it’s not a waste of public money to stamp that out.
This time next year of course we’ll have the Home Office’s new sexual offenses legislation, the mens rea and lewdness criterion will have been removed from indecent exposure, and they’ll be able to jail him and register him as a sex offender. How much safer the world will be.
I thought he exemplified that peculiarly English brand of stubborn eccentricity that may well be at the root of Anglosphere liberty. I was also heartened by the fact that, though he has been repeatedly arreseted, he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet.
I’m not joking – I’ve read a few interviews with his wife (in the Mail, which unfortunately doesn’t have them on-line) and it does seem that this man has put his “right” to be naked before his family. I feel very sorry for his wife, but even more so for his children – imagine the abuse they’re going to get at school. And anyone who thinks that they won’t get bullied for having a naked absentee father has never been bullied at school themselves – I’ve got ginger hair – I know how cruel kids can be.