This article was first published on Kipper Central – we republish with kind permission
Young Independence (YI), UKIP’s youth wing, has been forced to cancel it’s ‘Free Speech Conference’ after the venue they had booked terminated the contract just six days before the conference, scared that there could be violent protests from the far left.
This is the second conference in a row that YI have organised that has been blocked by fears of violent leftists, with their national conference last year also being shut down following violent leftist threats against multiple venues that had been booked.
“Despite booking the venue & informing them of our planned speakers well in advance, they have blocked our conference from taking place and decided to inform us just six days before it was due to take place, leaving us with no time to rearrange with another venue.
“Their reasons for blocking our conference were akin to the reasons that three different venues blocked our conference last year; threats and fears of violence and abuse from the far left incited by groups like ‘Hope Not Hate’ and ‘Stand Up to Racism’ who fail to adhere themselves to the doctrines of tolerance and inclusion of which they preach so vehemently.
“Last year, the leftists were extremely angered at Martin Sellner, who was due to speak at our national conference and as a result of our event, they threatened violence against the small boat business which we were planning to use during the conference. They also violently threatened the main venue of our conference. As a result, both venues blocked our conference from taking place and all subsequently booked venues also declined to host our event due to threats.
“This year, we wanted to defend free speech and show that UKIP does not cave into leftist threats by hosting a Free Speech Conference with Martin Sellner as a guest speaker once more. Unlike last year, we did not release the venue in advance and we took extra precautionary steps to up security and ensure that the venue were fully able to mitigate any risks. However, yet again we have been banned because of security concerns in relation to the far left.
“It is clear that there is a far-left monopoly over what can and cannot be said in today’s society. Any individual or organisation which attempts to exercise their right to free speech outside the parameters set by the leftists is met with violent threats and censorship.
“Young Independence will never be silenced by the far left and while they may have stopped this event, they have only made us more determined to defend Britain’s constitutional right to free speech.”
A YI officer said: “The termination of YI’s Free Speech Conference this week demonstrates that Britain is falling into a culture of Orwellian political correctness where no differing opinions can be aired, and no questions can be asked.
“We will never accept censorship or submission as viable options and we will always stand up for Britain’s free speech, whatever the risk and whatever the cost.”
The thing I find remarkable is that no one in the leadership, and rarely on this site these days, talks about Cultural Marxism, Common Purpose, Coudenhove Kalergi or the design purpose of the EU.
It was on this site only about 3 or 4 years ago that I came across references to The 3 C’s which I followed up and was staggered by what I found. That everything happening is deliberate, intentional and massively ramped up by Blair pushing Common Purpose through Julia Middleton.
My point is everybody with a mobile phone can do the same and a Ukip policy such as banning common Purpose from the public sector might provoke a few questions and start to expose it.
I do accept Ukip has had a leadership fiasco which GB is trying to recover but if this Party cannot get its head around what’s happening and start exposing it, who will? (Not AMW for one, she doesn’t find it “credible”)
We should be offering asylum to white South Africans. Their government is racist against whites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfAq3LrIjg
Without the engineers and the farmers, who tend to be white, they will run out of water and they will starve.
This news comes on the same day as we read about the shutting-down of a King’s College London Libertarian Society meeting by leftist thugs:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/06/watch-masked-antifa-attack-student-free-speech-event-injure-vandalise/
There is an all-out war against free speech going on this country and students and young people are at the sharp end. University authorities, the police and the supposed Conservative government are doing nothing to protect basic democratic liberties.
It’s sad that, in articles and comments on this site over the last few days, some have jumped on the bandwagon of siding with our enemies and attacking our own, rather than standing shoulder-to-shoulder in defence of free speech and with those who are fighting for the survival of European peoples and cultures.
Suggesting that it’s YI’s fault for inviting a controversial speaker and that this sort of intimidation is to be expected is the slippery slope to excusing these thugs. It’s buying into the terms of our enemies, letting them play divide and rule and acquiescing to their tyranny.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Once we lose free speech we can kiss goodbye to democracy.
Whenever someone claims that “Joe Bloggs is a white supremacist Nazi” it is imperative that we challenge them to provide solid evidence. If they cannot, and if they then do not withdraw their unsubstantiated accusations, then they are on the side of the democracy destroyers. They are playing right into the hands of Antifa and HNH.
Mr Sellner announced on Twitter that he will now give his speech on Sunday at Speakers Corner.
“Young Independence has been forced to cancel its ‘Free Speech Conference”.
Are you satisfied now, Viv, Mr. Bav, Luke Nash-Jones? Another victory for the Fascist Antis and Hate Not Hope. Still, at least the ‘adults’ of UKIP won’t be embarrassed by the kiddies playing with matches, eh?
It is a shame that collective hysteria (and apparent enablement by Government) have allowed Antifa to believe they are powerful. Last night Sargon of Akkad was due to speak at Kings College, so Antifa duly put in an appearance. They were roundly trounced, and would have been more so, had the moderator not intervened and allowed Antifa to get away scot free. The only reason they were able to claim victory was because they set off the fire alarms, and it is College Policy to shut down an event if that happens.
Do click the links, it puts Antifa in perspective
https://t.co/sn5V1YtOoz
https://t.co/kBHW9VrHgI
This gentleman, old enough to know better, slinks out sporting a rather bruised cheek! The modern version of a ‘Glasgow kiss’ !!
https://t.co/yiTYhlQTNp
And finally, Sargon holds aloft the captured trophy!
https://t.co/cW1vDLKvE0
Not really so difficult to handle – just a bunch of silly kids, people who never grew up, with a sprinkling of thugs among them.
And here is Sargon of Akkad on the matter
https://t.co/cWROwWQhvf This is the kind of sensible approach we all should be taking – I hope some of you watch his calm and measured approach – this is what social media is for – UKIP should do more of it.
Antifa is an oxymoron.
The walls are closing in. For Britain has had two public meetings closed in thr same way. Mike Newland is correct IMO. UKIP either backs the right of anyone to hear anyone in a private meeting and judge for themselves, or it does not. For me, it is not good enough to take the Jane Collins line of “it serves them right. What do you expect”.
Some on this site are convinced Sellner is a Nazi and cleverly hiding it. I am in no position to say if this is right or wrong. I only know AMW was blackened with this tag by UKIP hierarchy using the tactics of our enemies. I was continually termed extreme right-wing by Conservative colleagues fearing to say what, in their ignorance, thet really meant. I have been a supporter of the freedom Association for the 42 years of its existence.
As Emily rightly points out, free speech and free associstion is rapidly disappearing under the cowardly Conservatives. It will be far worse under Labour. What choice will we have next GE?
” ……. national conference last year also being shut down following violent leftist threats against multiple venues that had been booked.”
Have these threats been reported to the police? What action against the perpetrators have been taken by the police?
I note the Tories have had problems with their youth groups, too…
And who are the present government?.
Who is allowing these leftist groups many supported by destructive funding from overseas, not least Soros and Saudi – free rein to threaten and tyrannise the British people?.
Jeremy Corbyn and Labour?
Well No actually.
The Conservative Party.
Long ago hijacked by Cameron and May and turned into a neo lib/neo con globalist monstrosity with nothing ‘conservative’ about it bar the name.
One wonders how long it will take for the penny to drop to the fools who are going out to vote for the blue rosette that they are actually voting for the absolute extreme version of liberal dimocracy.
A long time by looks of things.
And to watch the Tories mock and laugh at the general ‘thickness’, ignorance and stupidity of your average Labour voter – makes one rather sick when watching the gormless Tories voting for the absolute antithesis of all that ‘conservatism’ is.
Oh brave new world.
Only since Cameron and May?
Cameron and May have had an organised policy of replacing any ‘conservatives’ with their neo lib, neo con, ethnics and feminists.
They parachute them in and force them on to local association.
It has been done on a massive scale and has completely changed the nature of the party.
The Party membership is hugely down – as the real conservatives have left.
The parliamentary party is now increasingly being made more ethnic and more female.
And not in marginals but in the safest plum seats.
Classic is one of the safest Tory seats in Britain – Peter Lilleys – Harpenden and Hitchen.
Since last June – occupied by an African. – handed over on a platter.
Their line up includes increasing numbers of islamics and other ethnic groups including other Africans.
Out of interest the Home Secretary is actually shacked up with one.
How she can be allowed to control the subject of immigration with her extreme personal views – is a question we should all be asking – but there you are – no one does.
As you will know anyway in the 1950s conservative party membership was millions,
1953 2.8 million ? Now 70,000 and fewer associations.
Power has as you indicate gone from the associations to the centre.
Same with Labour.
That is probably why there is a growing disconnect between the views of the voters and the MPs many shoe-horned in, to meet the PC quota book run by central office.
Personally I believe UKIP will need to play a long game, placing a lot of attention into local seats, helping local people and local issues from which some genuine UKIP MPs will eventually be born. There is no short cut. There will be a tipping point when voters will realise that voting UKIP is not throwing a vote away. Not sure if UKIP has the patience or capability for such an approach.
As a side note, strange how the pro immigration N Clegg and the Greens are getting half their number of garden cities to pour concrete over Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire. I think in 2014 N Clegg was “pledging” ten concrete Garden Cities. Now it seems the Conservatives are forcing through five concrete the countryside Garden Cities. Not sure between the Greens and N Clegg which one is worse ?
////Out of interest the Home Secretary is actually shacked up with one////
What’s wrong with her having a relationship with Kwasi Kwarteng ?
Hi Mr Bav
The only thing wrong with Rudd being in a relationship with Kwasi Kwarteng is that he’s probably too good for her. He comes across as intelligent, able to debate and put his point over without losing his cool and he supported the leave campaign if my memory serves correctly.
By contrast, Rudd is shrill, screechy, incapable of remaining calm under pressure and is a committed remained.
I am at a loss to understand what Kwasi sees in her.
Kind regards.
Perhaps YI should look at less controversial speakers for their events. How about approaching the Veterans Richard Inman, they share our views and are now backing UKIP.
Oh goodness Alec talk about naivety. You think that would stop them? The idea is CLOSURE period.
I am sad to say it had and has nothing to do with who the speaker is…. they, the Left, want to shut down all debate and free speech in the UK. If you look at the rise of Stalin it was the same… he followed the idea’s and plans of Marx etc. That was copied in the 1930s with political and social agitation across Europe and the rise of the Brown Shirts in Germany and the rise of Mosley here in the UK. After WW2 the same plan was used in Cuba, Africa and in many other places.