Police shut down conservative conference while Farage and Braverman on stage

[@stupidburp]

A healthy and free democracy requires that we tolerate speech that we disagree with and protect the rights of people who we dislike to express their views.

[@zealotestheaussie5880]

Like nazism?

[@-xirx-]

I've had enough of hate-mongering islamophobes, personally.

[@Orbokle779]

Paradox of Tolerance, we can’t tolerate INtolerance, lest the institution of free speech be corroded by fascists, just like the NATC’s

[@Cat_Guevara]

The conservatives do the same thing when people try to speak about progressive issues, or literally anything that is critical of their government

[@catwoman2582]

How quickly they forget what happened in Europe and the rest of the world in the 20th Century, twice!

[@EUROSISChannel]

What happened, is because we didn't forget.

[@Teknotion]

Agreed. Imagine going on stage in a country that suffered the effects of fascism for years, and start gobbing off fascist rhetoric to somehow save your laughably failing poliitcal career...

[@Joey-ct8bm]

Some of these speakers are actually under investigation to have taking money from Putin in Belgium.

[@kathchandler4919]

@Teknotion yes, agree but, for someone who professes to dislike Europe & its politics, what on earth was he doing there ? (Braverman too) . I mean neither of them like Putin, why not hold a conference in Moscow eh ?

[@glennbateman4483]

Yeah fascism happened , that's why they're stopping this shower of sh*te

[@ghostm4390]

A clear message from Brussels : " FREE speech will NOT be tolerated here ! "

[@theend9494]

that's fine stop drinking Belgium beer

[@zoltanludvan5133]

...and eating chocolaté...

[@Harry-wt8ul]

Neither in UK...Ups ..just been cancel

[@EUROSISChannel]

Nope, hate speech will not be tolerated.

[@chilesauce7248]

The #EU is officially a #socialist state, ran by socom fascists that do not allow free speech or liberty, just like the GDR & the USSR was..

[@mereemeree4525]

The more they do this the more people realise wr were right to leave e u

[@michelwolfs2273]

This decision was not taken by the mayor of Brussels but by one of the mayors of one of the 19 municipalities that make up Brussels. The event takes place in the municipality of Saint Joss, whose mayor is a socialist of origin Turkish and who is in the pay of Erdogane

[@sahnawazhussain]

Good 👍🏻

[@blackdogbarking]

Good people the turks

[@telarium252]

Wake up everybody before it's too late........

[@stomeka]

It's nearly too late.

[@qj4ib]

Kultur-marxists + migrants are a majority already in the West.

[@davechambers4867]

We did, we don't tolerate fascists'.

[@amyhylton3761]

They called the conference fascist. I think its very evident who the fascists are here.....

[@rynonymouss]

telegraph readers?

[@Rich-oc8pi]

@@rynonymouss 🤣

[@JuanLegendre-ey9ty]

Actually is Marxism.

[@rjw4762]

Well, MAINLAND Europe has a history of Fascism doesn't it ! Seems it's not gone away.

[@clarence_claymore.]

@@rynonymousssocialists so yeah

[@cypresse1620]

….so police in Europe will close a conference, but all the river to the sea protests are allowed to continue? Which one is creating chaos to pedestrians may I ask?

[@jujutrini8412]

Wrong. They closed down the pro Palestine conference in Germany and arrested Jewish people in attendance.

[@corneliuscornia3189]

River to the sea is in Britain mate😂

[@trevorhart545]

@@corneliuscornia3189 NO, it comes from HAMAS the Palestinian Terrorist Group in GAZA that MURDERED over 1,200 INNOCENTS October 2023. From the RIVER JORDAN to the MEDITERRANEAN SEA, hence River to Sea

[@anismatar]

Likes of these conferences in the past century are what has created the situation for the river to the sea protests we see now.

[@Alex-y2r6p]

Think about the pedestrians 😊

[@springer3783]

And these people have the nerve to say fight Russia to save democracy, this is what Putin does

[@-xirx-]

No, it isn't. Putin mass arrests and assassinates people.

[@telebubba5527]

Farage is the Putin fella, not the Belgian police! And why is he talking in Brussels? He should remain in the UK.

[@brettmotlib2268]

So your saying everyone should stay in there own country. I can't agree with that.

[@Harry-wt8ul]

@@brettmotlib2268 …They don't wan t to hear his drivel.

[@koosvanzyl2605]

No Putin is a real President.

[@jmac2543]

Comminism returns to Western Europe.

[@davelowe1977]

Not sure Western Europe was ever Communist. Eastern Europe certainly.

[@defendfreedom1390]

@@davelowe1977 In some Western European countries Communists had large following and even participated in governments

[@fje1948]

Bollocks…..

[@blackdogbarking]

Hooray shame britains left

[@equalopportunityoffender1816]

smartest right winger, can't even spell communism and thinks Western Europe was communist when it really was the fascist heartland.

[@darrenhopkins6829]

Fascists in action

[@telebubba5527]

That's why they were kicked out.

[@Israelipropaganda]

Brussels see exactly what cruella and boot face are....

[@fje1948]

True!

[@blackdogbarking]

People need to be specific these days as there are so many fascists about, luckily a vanishing demographic, young people far more sophisticated than older generation due to internet.

[@d.s.151]

That's why the police shut them down.

[@rodbarton4553]

Just the beginning. Far left at work. Disgusting and Evil

[@Rich-oc8pi]

🥱

[@kevinandrew679]

Oh dear, how sad, never mind!

[@telebubba5527]

Farage has no business in Europe. He Brexited, remember?

[@somthingbrutal]

was your country occupied far a far right Fascist army for several years ?. because theirs was, and i don't think they have forgotten what that was like lol

[@Harry-wt8ul]

Just like in your own Country

[@puddintame7794]

Imagine the outrage should the Brussels police shut down an Islamist rally.

[@voncarlowitz3506]

The Belgian police, especially those in Brussels, are partially in the pockets of the socialists and the green party..

[@petershury7135]

Would never happen lol

[@CelinTonny]

They have been doing every day,some people arrested,spreading hte is not helping Europe to have peace

[@susankromer4430]

They wouldn’t dare!

[@Theresaisabiologicalwoman]

Disgraceful

[@StarSprangledBanner]

Funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HitcherUK]

Agreed. Farage and Cruella should never be given a platform on which to spew vile.

[@Protato675]

​@@HitcherUKOK fascist

[@jeciel85]

This is an afront to democracy.

[@robbo8074]

​@@HitcherUK Neither should the likes of starmer, they can either all spew vile or none can.

[@duckndive.]

The US and Free world gave blood & guts to free this lot.

[@springer3783]

And they never forgive us for it

[@springer3783]

And let’s not forget , 25 million Russians. And now there behaving like a Russian dictator

[@robstewart1703]

​@@springer3783actually the numbers are 15m Ukrainians and 5m russians that died in defence of soviet union. Just saying.

[@Harry-wt8ul]

What free World?

[@chilesauce7248]

Socoms are fascist, the #EU is now a #socialist tyranny.

[@benpeters-brown5317]

I see they are still seething at nigel for making a fool out of their ruling class back in 2016

[@EUROSISChannel]

Yep, Nigel the pauper.

[@cb-7422]

@@EUROSISChannelNigel the Prophet 😁

[@yetidodger6650]

he's insignificant, hated in the uk and politicly useless hence him being beaten by a man dressed as a dolphin in an election.

[@soundscape26]

In Europe, Nigel Farage is seen as a meme.

[@sannywicca7504]

sorry i am from Belgium Brussel is the sewer of Belgium come to Antwerp your very welcome here

[@karenmcfadzean2635]

Is this the Gestapo in Brussels?

[@Harry-wt8ul]

Nope...They all moved to Britain

[@ClownHunt123]

@@Harry-wt8ul Probably by dinghy.

[@mplewp]

Brussels police force is kinda like the gestapo yes

[@Aeynora24]

Belgium is an embarassment to the civil society.

[@jfb.8746]

Belgium is becoming islamized. Simple. Let that be a warning for all other countries.

[@Alex-y2r6p]

Nothing civil about braverman 😊

[@Aeynora24]

@@Alex-y2r6p Only the ones against her anti-immigration & anti-islamist stand would say that.

[@kevinb9830]

How can the police just shut it down? On what basis?

[@Harry-wt8ul]

They probably don't like Foreigners....🤣🤣…Does it sound familiar??

[@kevinb9830]

@@Harry-wt8ul No, it doesn't.

[@ClownHunt123]

@@Harry-wt8ul They do love foreigners though, they flooded Europe with them.

[@kevinandrew679]

@@Harry-wt8ul Hahahaha! Well said, but they won't see the irony.

[@telebubba5527]

@@kevinb9830 Have a closer look into the mirror!

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

My grandfather was in the British army that liberated Belgium. Not sure why he bothered.

[@retroarcade3342]

Americans had to save your granfathers garden

[@davechambers4867]

He was fighting people who shared the same ideology as this mob!

[@LN-Lifer]

Authoritarian left

[@lkearney7299]

Always.

[@TBonerton]

Far left extremism. 100 years later and it appears Europe's political class has not changed one bit.

[@StarSprangledBanner]

Funny Left 🤣

[@DJJAW11]

... Eu fascists 🥴😞

[@corneliuscornia3189]

Look at your country mate incompetent and lowest living standards in Western Europe,ffs

[@fje1948]

Rubbish….. 🤮

[@fosphor8920]

they are globalists and it's also from USA and other western nations

[@DirkGoldwasser-he7nu]

absolutely sickening , Europe is in serious trouble

[@corneliuscornia3189]

Good,go to Blackpool!😊

[@billyeves9358]

Calling these people far right is hilarious 😂

[@telebubba5527]

Indeed, they fell of the edge into Nazism.

[@yossariandunbar2829]

The left love the jack boot.

[@EUROSISChannel]

The left isn't idolizing Putin. So who loves the boot?

[@yetidodger6650]

yeah because fascists and racists are really left wing aint they lol.

[@gherkamum]

Free Speech is not ok in Brussels......

[@adrianryan5654]

Just looks like a return to Germany 1936-1945…

[@lkearney7299]

There are plans for the whole world to be like that.

[@ClownHunt123]

Don’t try to compare them, Germany tried to save Europe.

[@kevinandrew679]

It certainly does with the appearance of Farage and Braverman!

[@jujutrini8412]

Germany are doing that now to pro Palestine people. They closed down a conference and arrested Jewish people in attendance. They couldn’t even start the conference!

[@eoinbergin28]

@@ClownHunt123 These "anti-woke" Farage fanboys aren't doing a great job at distancing themselves from authoritarian pariah states. If wokeism is damaging the image of the left, then it is fair to assume that anti-wokeism is damaging the image of the right.

[@davelowe1977]

Well done to the Telegraph for reporting this.

[@Cara_Vana]

No surprise this isn't highlighted on bbc news!

[@YonieZukowsky51]

The old Soviet Union is melting into the New Brussels.

[@SamhainBe]

Outrageous! All good and free peoples should boycott Belgium when travelling this year.

[@Lanesplitter]

The thought-police in action - welcome to Orwell's 1984.

[@GlobetruthFU]

All very reminiscent of Germany in the 1930's with this Stazi type intervention.

[@mplewp]

Fun fact the mayor Emir Kir’s driver was convicted for arms smuggling . So yeah a real upstanding mayor against free speech 😂.

[@anthonypatterson]

Is it being reported in the Guardian :)

[@DaChaGee]

Yes

[@timcoakley5498]

Nigel Farage is not far right, but he is right so far.

[@bennett9117]

In Begium, especially, Wallonie they dont have anybody far rigth : the farest is Charles Michel.So, they dont want to give ideas to their people. Hence, the closing down. ( By the double national Turkish -Belgian Mayor)

[@voncarlowitz3506]

Sorry, but there is a new party called Chez-Nous. They are nationalist patriots but aren't represented in Brussels. Check it out on the internet. Have a pleasent day and sincere regards from Flanders..!

[@telebubba5527]

@@voncarlowitz3506 Chez-Nous sounds more like a bar in the red light district.

[@voncarlowitz3506]

@@telebubba5527 They are the ones in the french speaking part of Belgium who want to end the socialist parasite politics and regain their pride as walloons. The Flemish part of Belgium has to transfer millions of euro's every year, thanks to all those in Brussels who don't work and this has been going on now for nearly 4 decades..

[@ClownHunt123]

*Democracy for me but not for thee.*

[@aston0708]

That shut down must be illegal,,, its held on private property not public

[@Allegro-wp8xf]

The Gestapo is truly here now.

[@McQueenPaul]

So the Mayor of Brussels can host the Mayor of Tehran but sicks up at having democratic discussions by elected politicians and conservative thinkers. Maybe he would allow a conference of Autocrats and Communists.

[@stevenmitchell5319]

Back to the dark ages are we?

[@Harry-wt8ul]

Brits never came out of it🔚

[@springer3783]

Eu values

[@edwardbernthal160]

Yes indeed, nearly all EU members have lived under a right wing power, Never again.

[@brettmotlib2268]

​@@edwardbernthal160 And left wing dictatorships.

[@springer3783]

@@edwardbernthal160 Facism and socialism are both left wing ideas .

[@springer3783]

@@edwardbernthal160 And things like this are exactly what they done So your saying nowadays , freedom and democracy are right wing ideas, we always knew the left were duplicitous liars when they claimed to be anti authoritarian

[@FrostekFerenczy]

@@brettmotlib2268 - Yeah, there was... the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia... and that's about it! All of the other dictatorships were solidly right-wing.

[@humptydumpty9177]

The EU is terrified!

[@Harry-wt8ul]

From What?

[@humptydumpty9177]

@@Harry-wt8ul From opposition.

[@alexanderdantonio8999]

Nah. They don't want rus propagandist tools speaking their garbage in their city/country unless we're allowed to go to Moscow to speak about the evils of putin. Reciprocity is required.

[@Pureblood10000]

Democracy

[@mwd331]

Trust me, no one has any intention of leaving after watching us do it.

[@fluidjazz]

Why am I not surprised by this, all that is missing are the brown shirts of the Police.

[@EUROSISChannel]

The brown shirts were already inside

[@TrPortg]

Well done nigel

[@PhillipaSilke]

The end of democracy.

[@lkearney7299]

The truth cannot be permitted.

[@Harry-wt8ul]

What Truth???

[@kevinandrew679]

Since when do the far right speak the truth?

[@FrostekFerenczy]

Farage is a snake.

[@Veiled_Vision896]

it's a shame ...... democracy is over in brussels

[@rattywilliams1297]

The far left at work.

[@defendfreedom1390]

So much for freedom of speech...

[@ctwalker2313]

we know too well how to deal with the right wing.

[@dealyboy]

They're frightened of Nigel ... he might start spreading common sense 😉.

[@speedboostr]

Very unlikely they have a minister for that LOL

[@Harry-wt8ul]

The only thing he is spreading is Dung....

[@ClownHunt123]

@@Harry-wt8ul Your mom loves spreading too.

[@catwoman2582]

😅😅😅

[@chrissanders1027]

😂😂😂🤡

[@zantas-handle]

Let's do the BBC headline for what happened: "Right Wing White Supremacist Klan Meeting Exposed By Brave Brussels Police Efforts".

[@telebubba5527]

Wish they would, but alas, they are far to right wing for anything like that. They used to have some independence, but that's decades ago.

[@chrissanders1027]

Never a truer word said .

[@FrostekFerenczy]

The BBC is run by the Tories now, so that would be unlikely.

[@tonysutcliffe5032]

More EU tantrums.

[@DaChaGee]

It was Belgium not the EU. EU doesn't have that kind of power

[@canugizabit2810]

Wasn't this the same guy (the mayor) who was thrown out of the Turkish left party through his connection to the far right ??

[@telebubba5527]

Wasn't Farage they guy that Brexited and hates Europe and specifically Brussels with all his guts?

[@j.c.a.1101]

Is this the same Suella that told the UK public that restricts free non violent public protests in UK when she was the Home Secretary? Karma has gone back to her. Good job Brussels.

[@MenBehavingBadly.]

Ah the police have a problem, why don’t the police FO, actually do the job we pay them to do

[@Harry-wt8ul]

They do...They kick the Foreign conservatives out.

[@alfredlear4141]

Shame, democracy dies at their hand

[@MarvelStudios-p3y]

Common europeans enjoying far better life than most of the world is because of the left government and we all know what life of a commoner was when nationalists ruled Europe before 1945

[@garyb455]

Its not the Police its the Gestapo

[@Channelscruf]

The police literally making the conservative’s point. Delicious.

[@bv3bv334]

Spread the message far and wide. If we don't vote correctly we will be over-run within a generation.

[@edwardstudd4820]

Philip Close,Mayor of Brussels, Closes Conservative Conference

[@OldAndInTheWay-k1w]

Sure makes me sorry Belgium was saved from the *azis

[@nikkismith2858]

Why did they choose to hold a conference in Brussels?

[@Harry-wt8ul]

Because they would have been shut down in UK....🤣🤣🤣

[@kevinandrew679]

@@Harry-wt8ul What a load of crap. We can't shut them up here, even though they claim they are being cancelled, they're never off our radio and TV screens. Sick of the sight of them.

[@telebubba5527]

@@kevinandrew679 Then do something about them and don't export them here. They have no business here, they've Brexited!

[@chrissanders1027]

Because the flights to North Korea where to expensive.

[@bradcozens]

Your a hero Nigel,

[@telebubba5527]

Keep your garbage at home!

[@bradcozens]

@@telebubba5527 good one fuckwit

[@FrostekFerenczy]

Illiterate!

[@michaelmattern8188]

Farage is a grifter.

[@Jams848484]

How people can behave like this and still imagine they are the good guys, It's unfathomable.

[@John-ik1os]

Turkish Mayor (dual nationality) says it all!

[@lamotiengodidal6511]

Asian Mayor of London (British nationality), says it all!

[@John-ik1os]

@@lamotiengodidal6511 It does indeed

[@lamotiengodidal6511]

@@John-ik1os Yay! For multiculturism!!

[@WildernessofMirrorsN17]

The L EU FT will not countenance Political Opposition Viewpoints.

[@andyweb7779]

NIgel Farage isn't far right.

[@timcoakley5498]

No, but he is right so far

[@PhillipaSilke]

How disgraceful.

[@arsalanmirza3411]

Freedom of Speech 🎤 🙊🙉🙈🐒

[@corvusglaive4804]

Lol😂 The Brussels Superstate is a reality! I can't believe it! They saw Farage and his chums as threat to their order lol...goodness me, I never would've dreamed they'd do that!

[@telebubba5527]

Well, he Brexited didn't he? WTF was he doing there? He hates Europe!

[@FrostekFerenczy]

> Farage and his chums Well, they've already f*cked over the UK. And Farage's grift continues as long as he's paid to continue it. Since the UK is screwed, the other /European countries will come under attack. Except Belgium is wise to it now.

[@BrianSallis-h6z]

is that what happened in Germany in 1930s when that man came to power and destroyed the world

[@Constitutionalist52]

The EU has always been anti-democratic, I wouldn’t agree with Braverman or Farage on many issues but it’s absolutely wrong and dangerous to shut them down and deny them the right to express their political beliefs .

[@candidaprout560]

Years 1930 people turned a blind eye and let it happen. Bravo Brussels

[@timcoakley5498]

And how many people did Lenin have Murdered, more than 10 times than Hitler, and most of them were his own people.

[@matthewmullins6801]

The End of Free Speach as we know it 😮

[@cun7us]

Kind of ironic the mayor calling this event "far-right", since "far" means extreme and when what he did by closing it down was extreme. Therefore, that would make him far-left.

[@ryanwisbey3387]

So much for freedom.of speech. I wont if it was an Islamic conference if I would be the same result.?

[@JelMain]

So Belgium isn't the UK? Wow. The Borough I lived in was run by a far-right mayor who thought it fair to breach the human rights of anyone dissenting. She lost, an all-time first in Belgian history, the people in the Borough saw the case we built. It's now Green, and asks them what they want done. It's inspired others. Now, Kir and Sadiq Khan are very similar, although Kir is in charge of a borough with a huge Muslim population, spreading into Anderlecht and Schaerbeek, adjoining boroughs.

[@ginaroebuck3328]

Look very nice nigel.

[@michaelellard4664]

He’s loving it.

[@fredmcveigh9877]

Where is Adolph hiding? I thought he was supposed to be dead.

[@CWJ0725]

the world government's gestapo is here to root out dissent

[@Emsie76]

I’d never heard of this event. Now the Mayor has just put a massive spotlight on it…. 😂 well done.

[@CunningLinguistics-k7b]

wH0 is lysdexia for HOW?

[@zantas-handle]

Did yuo smell that rihgt?

[@mc22pt43]

Communism v Fascism 2.0 but the angry ones are the Commies this time around 😂.

[@graemewiltshire312]

Only good thing about Belgium they make quite nice chocolate.

[@dirkbogarde7796]

Disgraceful 🇪🇺. Belgium and the EU are no longer democratic.

[@WilliamBrown-e3t]

Belgium is a democracy.... and this has nothing to do with the EU.

[@chrissanders1027]

No room for fascist and racists in Belgium, they voted on it .

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

Emir kir is the mayor, isn't he?

[@clarence_claymore.]

Socialism does what socialism does

[@soundscape26]

Strives for equality?

[@clarence_claymore.]

@@soundscape26 yeah like national socialism in Germany of North Korea

[@jimwest7107]

What public disturbance?

[@chrissanders1027]

Apparently the smell emanating from the building caused a public health incident, when farage opened his ugly pie hole.

[@alanjeffs-ep8lq]

Those police look like Gestapo.

[@ctwalker2313]

They would feel at home then.

[@Edodod]

Meanwhile in "the liberal, free, democratic West of Europe", far away from dictatorships like Putin's Russia, Islamic Republic of Iran and Orbans Hungary... (sarcasm)

[@julianbrown8572]

Sounds sinister to me……

[@geoffwright9570]

It doesn't show the EU in a good way and is a restraint on freedom of speech.

[@edgardebruin5539]

they should pit farage and braverman in jail forever!

[@BoxingEnthusiasts]

lol , can someone please send her to India 🇮🇳 😂😂😂 !! Keep our boarders 😂😂😂

[@dizzyman123]

"Managing, balancing, and policing activities." 🗝

[@dizzyman123]

Yoruba Omo Atata Karo Ajire is a leader in intellectual property, similar to how our ancestors marked their herds and textiles 💡 new markets-B2B2C-i 🗝 Inno-Brexit 🦁

[@dizzyman123]

The Yoruba self-determination, freedom, and prosperity of the Future Yoruba Nation embody the same indomitable spirit that our ancestors used to mark their statues.