Free Speech Campaigners Protest About Free Speech Debate

The Oxford Union is under mounting pressure to withdraw its invitation to the two controversial figures for a freedom of speech event at its debating society.

Hundreds of free speech campaigners were planning to gather outside the debating chamber to jeer the arrival of two men whose opinions they don’t agree with.

The decision to invite the pair, made after a vote among members of the debating society, has already outraged equalities watchdog chief Trevor Phillips and prompted a senior Tory MP to resign his life membership of the Union.

Trevor Phillips said,

“It’s a disgrace that this pair whose opinions are not shared by myself and many others are being allowed to debate about freedom of expression. We didn’t fight two world wars against those who sought to curtail our freedom of speech only to let two people speak about their abhorrent beliefs in front of educated university students.

What the Oxford Union must realise is that are limits to the freedom of speech. It’s appalling that this pair are sharing a stage that has been graced by fundamentalist religious fanatics such as Mother Theresa and the Dalai Lama. Expressing your beliefs whatever they are, is a privilege not a right and it‘s a right I think it‘s only right to take away from people who believe things that I personally find offensive.”

Oxford Union debating chair, Barnaby Furore defended his decision to invite the controversial speakers.

“I think it’s right in any democracy to listen to the arguments and then decide. Personally I don’t have any political beliefs or moral compass which is why I’m New Labour’s prospective candidate for Sidmouth. At the end of the day, it’s all about bums on seats. We’ve had P. Diddy here to rap about black emancipation through rampant materialism and that bird from Girls Aloud, the Geordie one with the lovely arse who spoke about feminist pluralism in a post-structuralist society and they were both sell-outs.

OK so these fellars believe that the Holocaust didn’t happen but is that any worse than believing in Santa, the tooth fairy or a primitive system of superstitious mind-control disguised as a moral framework to defend the economic interests of western capitalism?”

David Irving was unavailable for comment. Nick Griffin’s views have been censored by the WWJPD editor.