Freedom Festival Time Table. Sounds good to me.

http://www.tfa.net/2014/02/20/lord-tebbit-confirmed-for-the-freedom-festival/

http://www.conservativehome.com/thinktankcentral/2014/02/from-simplysimontfa-come-to-the-freedom-festival-in-bournemouth-next-month.html

http://thefreedomfestival.net/index.php/timetable/

Anyone who mentions my name gets £25 off.  

Then I was told I was person non grata ....

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/unknown-organisations-behind-freedom.html

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/13/hugh-muir-diary-pickles-audit-commission

"BNP chief hits back at The Freedom Association"

http://www.londonspinonline.com/2010/12/bnp-chief-hits-back-at-tfa.html

Apparently, I am supposed to be this "BNP chief" and "director" - which is enormously flattering, but not strictly true!

Below is what London Spin said:

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

BNP Chief Hits Back at TFA

BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY Director Claire Khaw has lambasted the Freedom Association in an online web rant. Writing on her blog, The Voice of Reason, Khaw said, “Should the BNP demand an apology for being called Nazis by the TFA? I would have thought that that was defamatory and cannot in fact be justified.”

She continued, “You would have thought that an outfit called The Freedom Association would be pleased to be defending the free speech and free association of others, but not a bit of it, it seems. The TFA is really a Eurosceptic organisaton that appears to think it is doing so well it can dismiss the other half of the Eurosceptic movement, ie the BNP.

If the Eurosceptic movement has not been terribly successful, the reason is the hesitant timorousness of its activists as well as its back-stabbing snobbery of those who do not come from the same class and live in the same leafy suburbs as they,” she added.

Should the TFA sue the BBC for libel?

http://www.tfa.net/the_freedom_association/2010/12/bbc-must-make-full-apology-for-bnp-smear-on-the-freedom-association.html

This is such a bad idea I just don't know where to begin.

Do they not see the irony of a libertarian organisation  such as The Freedom Association suing to suppress free speech and fair comment??


The Eurosceptic movement seems to be afflicted by the most alarming kind of hysteria and irrationality and there seems no helping them at all.

I post this merely to put on record that I have tried to warn them against this insane course of action, which has apparently goaded into a frenzy - there is no other word for it - of anti-BNP histrionics.

"Calm down, calm down," I want to say, in my best Michael Winner e-Sure voice ....

 PS    They have deleted my comment and have now disabled me from commenting!  There is one sensible comment:

Tanino said...

For what it's worth, I don't believe that any comparison could be drawn between The Freedom Association and the BNP but I think that it would be coherent with Libertarian principles to let the BBC do as it wishes.

I don't believe that one can arbitrarily call comparison to the BNP a smear. If I say that the Labour Party is a moderate version of Salvador Allende's Socialist Party, is that a smear? Most people would say it isn't, Allende is widely regarded a great man. But to say that the Labour party is a moderate version of the Soviet Union's Communist Party would be regarded as a smear by most people. In summary, I believe that whether the comparison to the BNP is a good or bad thing is fundamentally subjective and one should not be made to apologise for it. If the BBC apologised and accepted that the comparison to the BNP is a smear, that would surely be a breach of impartiality and would be considered anti-BNP bias.

"When a leftist sees something he doesn't like on television, he phones up to complain, when a man of the right sees something he doesn't like on television, he changes the channel".

Saturday, 18 December 2010 at 06:14 PM

Should the BNP demand an apology for being called Nazis by the TFA?

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=481177574321&id=821565297

I would have thought that that was defamatory and cannot in fact be justified.  

There is no indication anywhere in its manifesto that the BNP wishes to

1.  expel the Jews

2.  exterminate the Jews

3.  achieve union with Austria

4.  invade the Czech Republic

5.  invade Slovakia

6.  invade Poland

7.  invade all the English-speaking countries of the world 

As for the undoubted xenophobia of some of its members and dislike of other races, I would like to have it officially proclaimed that British citizens are now legally forbidden from expressing dislike of foreigners and other races and offending foreigners and other races. 

You would have thought that an outfit called The Freedom Association would be pleased to be defending the free speech and free association of others, but not a bit of it, it seems. 

The TFA is really a Eurosceptic organisaton that appears to think it is doing so well it can dismiss the other half of the Eurosceptic movement, ie the BNP. 

If the Eurosceptic  movement has not been terribly successful, the reason is the hesitant timorousness of its activists as well as its back-stabbing snobbery of those who do not come from the same class and live in the same leafy suburbs as they. 

It seems that the overwhelming majority of the Eurosceptic movement are quite determined to be ruled by their class divisions and remain a vassal state of the EU.  Sad, but true.