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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 16, 2024 11:40:23 GMT
This is incredible.
As I write Farage is on stage at the The National Conservatism Conference in Brussels. However, the EU/Belgian authorities are desperately searching for a reason to shut it down. Their are dozens of police outside the venue, in fact the police have now entered the venue, it seems the socialist Mayor of Brussels has instructed the police to shut down the The National Conservatism Conference in the name of, believe it or not, public safety!
It's a bit confusing at the moment, Farage has disappeared but Suella Braverman is now speaking on stage. Apparently the police stopped Farage speaking on stage, he is now speaking to journalists in the lobby of the building.
A bit of background to this story: Venues around Brussels were pressured not to host this conference, the venue that eventually agreed to host it is owned by a Tunisian businessman who is now receiving threats that he will be bankrupted, and catering firms were told not to supply this conference with food & drink. The EU are desperate to stifle free speech and opinion.
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 16, 2024 11:53:58 GMT
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Post by wapentake on Apr 16, 2024 11:58:26 GMT
Ha and on another thread witchfinder is telling us we are all old rule Britannia and empire fanatics but the young see we must go back in the United Europe,and see what? this shutting people down because you don’t like what they are saying.
They don’t nickname it the eussr without reason,good god if Orwell was around today he’d have a field day.
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Post by wapentake on Apr 16, 2024 12:07:01 GMT
Breaking News
The Mayor has just announced Brussels will be twinned with Moscow and Putin says he’s proud to accept.
Well I’m joking aren’t I?
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 16, 2024 12:27:02 GMT
Ha and on another thread witchfinder is telling us we are all old rule Britannia and empire fanatics but the young see we must go back in the United Europe,and see what? this shutting people down because you don’t like what they are saying. They don’t nickname it the eussr without reason,good god if Orwell was around today he’d have a field day. The thing is, the EU/Belgian authorities have shot themselves in the foot with this massive overreaction. In the normal course of things this event would have gone largely unnoticed, but because the Mayor of Belgium ordered the police to close it down every journalist in Belgium is heading to the venue and they all want to interview Farage. This is exactly what Farage likes, he thrives on this sort of thing. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 16, 2024 13:14:53 GMT
Emir Kir, the socialist mayor of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, where the Conservative conference was being held, has described Conservatives as 'far right' and a danger to public order.
He is an authoritarian socialist who is attempting to kill free speech, and I imagine the EU quietly approve.
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Post by steppenwolf on Apr 16, 2024 13:20:18 GMT
This was Farage back to his barnstorming best - pacing the stage and speaking unscripted about the antidemocracy of the EU. It was absolutely brilliant. He's dead right. The EU is a superstate led by an unelected civil service. He quoted Blair - that the EU started off as being about peace but now it's about power.
RR is right that the EU has shot itself in the foot by getting the police to shut down this convention - citing spurious grounds of public safety. They've just made sure that it gets maximum coverage in the press. And they've woken up the old Farage. It was a terrific speech.
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Post by wapentake on Apr 16, 2024 13:46:41 GMT
No one else being allowed in but you can leave but can’t go back in apparently,is there any chance we can have that rule extended to the UK on a permanent basis that would annoy witchfinder no end  link |
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Post by Bentley on Apr 16, 2024 14:05:41 GMT
The cult of lefties at its best .
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Post by patman post on Apr 16, 2024 14:22:27 GMT
I know nothing about The National Conservatism Conference in Brussels — apart from what's posted on here. But having spent a year working in Belgium, I found out that the country has some violent Far Right groups (info on which is easily accessible online).
So I'm inclined to accept the conclusions of the local authorities if they feel there's danger of violence, though their reactions might be judged OTT from here...
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 16, 2024 15:24:56 GMT
A barrister on GB News has just pointed out that the Belgian constitution guarantees the right of assembly and the right of free speech. He claims the mayor who instructed the police to stop this Conservative conference was not the mayor of Belgium as previously reported, but Emir Kir who is the mayor of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and described as a minor official, who could find himself in hot water over this.
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 16, 2024 15:37:16 GMT
I know nothing about The National Conservatism Conference in Brussels — apart from what's posted on here. But having spent a year working in Belgium, I found out that the country has some violent Far Right groups (info on which is easily accessible online). So I'm inclined to accept the conclusions of the local authorities if they feel there's danger of violence, though their reactions might be judged OTT from here... Are you seriously suggesting this conference who's speakers included many conservative politicians including Suella Braverman, was far right? The police said the order signed by this minor official, cited 'public safety'. T his is after other venues were pressured not to host the conference. Btw, did you see the street outside the venue? No protestors no demonstrators no crowds, in fact, no people. Which I'm sure was disappointing for the minor official who signed the order, and embarrassing for the riot police who arrived complete with helmets shields and batons, to an empty street. Is this free speech EU style? Edit: Just been reported that members of the European Parliament were also at this conference, that some minor socialist official described as a 'far right' meeting that endangered public safety. |
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Post by patman post on Apr 16, 2024 15:55:02 GMT
I know nothing about The National Conservatism Conference in Brussels — apart from what's posted on here. But having spent a year working in Belgium, I found out that the country has some violent Far Right groups (info on which is easily accessible online). So I'm inclined to accept the conclusions of the local authorities if they feel there's danger of violence, though their reactions might be judged OTT from here... Are you seriously suggesting this conference who's speakers included many conservative politicians including Suella Braverman, was far right? The police said the order signed by this minor official, cited 'public safety'. T his is after other venues were pressured not to host the conference. Btw, did you see the street outside the venue? No protestors no demonstrators no crowds, in fact, no people. Which I'm sure was disappointing for the minor official who signed the order, and embarrassing for the riot police who arrived complete with helmets shields and batons, to an empty street. Is this free speech EU style? Edit: Just been reported that members of the European Parliament were also at this conference, that some minor socialist official described as a 'far right' meeting that endangered public safety. I've already posted that I know nothing about The National Conservatism Conference in Brussels.
But I am familiar with life and some nasty political outfits in Belgium.
And face it, Braverman and Farage wouldn't be the first politicians to be duped into attending suspect events, if that's what's happened.
Or maybe it was someone's idea of a joke to alert the authorities to an imaginary threat — we might learn more sometime...
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 16, 2024 16:09:15 GMT
Are you seriously suggesting this conference who's speakers included many conservative politicians including Suella Braverman, was far right? The police said the order signed by this minor official, cited 'public safety'. T his is after other venues were pressured not to host the conference. Btw, did you see the street outside the venue? No protestors no demonstrators no crowds, in fact, no people. Which I'm sure was disappointing for the minor official who signed the order, and embarrassing for the riot police who arrived complete with helmets shields and batons, to an empty street. Is this free speech EU style? Edit: Just been reported that members of the European Parliament were also at this conference, that some minor socialist official described as a 'far right' meeting that endangered public safety. I've already posted that I know nothing about The National Conservatism Conference in Brussels. But I am familiar with life and some nasty political outfits in Belgium. And face it, Braverman and Farage wouldn't be the first politicians to be duped into attending suspect events, if that's what's happened. Or maybe it was someone's idea of a joke to alert the authorities to an imaginary threat — we might learn more sometime...
FFS Pat, no one knew anything about The National Conservatism Conference in Brussels until some minor official decided to ban free speech. And given Belgium is almost an Islamic enclave I'm not in the least surprised they have far right groups. But we're not talking about some far right group are we. We are talking about a Conservative conference in which ex and current Conservative politicians as well as members of the European parliament were taking part. This is being widely seen as the suppression of free speech by authoritarian left wing autocrats who in spite of the Belgian constitution that supposedly guarantees the right of assembly and free speech, have banned opposing opinions. More evidence if more were necessary of the similarities between the EU and Russia. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 16, 2024 16:15:56 GMT
A bit more news just in. It seems this minor official, one of no fewar than 19 regional mayors in Brussels, told the police there was no time to carry out a risk assessment and that the conference must be closed down immediately.
Could this be because, if the police had carried out a risk assessment it would have been obvious there was absolutely no danger to public safety. It's a poser innit lol.
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