Protesters gather outside Oxford Union (From The Oxford Times)
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Protesters gather outside Oxford Union
7:50pm Thursday 17th January 2013 in News By Ellie Simmonds
Protesters outside the Oxford Union tonight
PROTESTERS have gathered outside the Oxford Union ahead of a debate about gay rights.
About 30 people with placards are outside the historic debating chamber in Frewin Court.
They are protesting against the possible presence of British National Party chairman Nick Griffin.
He had originally been invited to take part in the debate but his invitation was rescinded when it emerged the union member who sent it did not have permission.
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Grunden Skip
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9:05pm Thu 17 Jan 13
He is not going to be there, but hey why let the facts get in the way of a little student Jolly. £9K a year for tuituion and they can waste their time on this, the legend is true, Oxford students have far more money than brains. P.S. I have heard that it is possible that The President of Syria may be at The Union to give a speech at 11pm tonight. Just a tip off to all the radical students that have nothing better to do. And you will still have time afterwards to go to The Bridge or Flava, what a life.
Lord Palmerstone
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11:29am Fri 18 Jan 13
sed, unable to use the bus service, draw welfare or be on council housing lists. Their behaviour has not been criminalised since 1967. They are presumably as free to yarboo at members of the British National Party, the Monster Raving Looney party or the Tupperware party as anyone else. Time for them to "move on" (whatever that means) perhaps ?
ProNorden
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1:32pm Fri 18 Jan 13
Lord Palmerstone
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5:07pm Fri 18 Jan 13
ProNorden wrote:Controls on immigration, i.e. no foreign welfare scroungers- would not only be popular but even Millipede will have to concede, as the Roumanians and Bulgars flood in to grab our taxpayer dosh, absolutely necessary for the survival of England as a civilized country, but tariffs, Corn Laws, worker coops, the Stansgate Meriden cooperative? you're in the wrong millenium mate.As for
What makes the BNP dangerous is that their policy agenda of the Import Tax/ tariff (to "restore manufacturing"), Worker Co-ops, halting immigration and encouraging repatriation would be very popular and benefit the British people. The Corporatist Predatory Parasites currently in power fear that.
the "Predatory Parasites" I don't think even I would suggest that the JSA mob is "in power". I suppose the BNP has a view on homosexuals.That must be why the coterie of "I've got nothing better to do" characters pitched up last night outside the college kids' rave venue.
DoctorBob
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8:13pm Fri 18 Jan 13
Sandy Wimpole-Smythe wrote:Free speech is not the issue. Oxford Union allowing a man who wants to force British Men, Women and Children, including Olympic medal winners, onto boats to send them to places they've never been to is.
Hypocrites, they want their 'right to protest' and 'their free speech' but will not allow others to even have their own opinions. While I do not in any way agree with the BNP they have as much right to be heard as the next man.
Lord Palmerstone
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8:40am Sat 19 Jan 13
DoctorBob wrote:Right again Social Worker, but a little obscurely put, if you'll pardon my saying so. These persons were reiterating the left's determination to censor anything they don't approve off-just the same as the folks in Berlin 1933-45 and Moscow 1917-89. No doubt they'd like to see Mr. Griffin forced into a gulag. Good news is that they're no more likely to get their way than is the BNP, because most citizens are not barmy like the the little coteries.
Sandy Wimpole-Smythe wrote:Free speech is not the issue. Oxford Union allowing a man who wants to force British Men, Women and Children, including Olympic medal winners, onto boats to send them to places they've never been to is.
Hypocrites, they want their 'right to protest' and 'their free speech' but will not allow others to even have their own opinions. While I do not in any way agree with the BNP they have as much right to be heard as the next man.
Why boats? Doesn't the BNP believe in aeroplanes either?
Grunden Skip
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6:29pm Sat 19 Jan 13
Sandy Wimpole-Smythe says...
8:47pm Thu 17 Jan 13