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UKIP conference shut down after Antifa threats
Young Independence, the youth wing of the anti-immigration party in Britain, UKIP, has cancelled their annual conference and boat party in Sheffield after Antifa threats.
Published: September 3, 2017, 10:37 am
Sheffield
Martin Sellner, the Austrian co-leader of Génération Identitaire, a group that opposes migration and embraces their European identity, was to speak at the Young Independence’s #Horizons conference on Saturday.
Ukip leadership hopeful Anne Marie Waters, co-founder of the “anti-islamic organisation” Pegida UK was also due to speak.
The original venue, the Hilton Hotel near Sheffield city centre decided to cancel the conference on Thursday citing security risks. Young Independence proceede to book another venue, the Novotel, but it cancelled the booking on Friday.
The group then found another venue outside of Sheffield but the speakers backed out. In a statement Young Indepence said on Saturday: “After securing a venue in nearby Barnsley early this morning, only three of Leadership candidates and UKIP speakers confirmed their attendance.”
The conference after party on a boat was also cancelled. Young Independence said: “Regretfully, the Far Left also caught on that we would be holding a boat party (The #Revolutions Cruise) after the conference and they decided that it would be appropriate to send abusive messages to the small business that is hosting our boat party.
“The lady who runs the boat company informed us that protesters were threatening to cause damage to the boat and although she was personally disgusted with their actions, she simply could not take the serious risk posed by the protesters.”
Young Independence said the venues had cancelled because of Antifa threats. It said: “Unfortunately, the Hard Left ‘Stand Up to Racism’ organisation planned a protest at the hotel and has sent a large amount of abusive and threatening emails to Hilton Hotel staff.
“A handful of emails contained threats of violence if they host our conference, branding UKIP as ‘far right’, ‘fascist’ and ‘Islamophobic’ to name a few.
“The Hilton inform us that the quantity of emails that were of an aggressive nature was overwhelming and they decided that owing to an increased security risk posed by the Far Left to delegates, hotel guests and Hilton staff they have been left with very little option than to cancel the event.”
It added: “This state of affairs is a massive attack on freedom of speech and reflects the very worrying times we face in this country where those who have opposing views are able to force events to be cancelled because of their keenness to be violent towards those of an opposing view.”
Rebecca Toner, conference and events manager at the Hilton in Sheffield told the Sheffield Star: “We have taken the decision to cancel the event in question. […] We review each booking on a case by case basis, and in view of heightened safety and security risks associated with this event, we decided to cancel the booking.”
“It is with great reluctance that we have been forced to announce that the Young Independence #Horizons conference has been cancelled/postponed indefinitely,” reads an online letter from the YI executive council.
“We defend our decision to invite Mr. Sellner as a person who has experienced first-hand one of the greatest man-made crises in Europe since the Second World War and, arguably, one who attempted to prevent politically motivated NGOs from encouraging human-trafficking and illegal immigration,” the organisers wrote.
“We understand the controversies, however we simply do not believe in no-platforming a person because we don’t agree with every aspect of their views.”
YI noted that some of the UKIP leadership candidates are “not without controversy” themselves; naming, in particular, Anne Marie Waters — a critic of Islam described as “an Irish lesbian feminist” by The Times.
“Naturally, it would be unthinkable for us to exclude her while she is a candidate in the current leadership elections,” they wrote.
Would-be conference attendees who had already made travel arrangements were advised that many planned speakers and organisers will be available in Sheffield for meetings with supporters informally. The event’s organiser added that they would soon convene a meeting at a public venue and promised to refund tickets.
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Just have virtual conferences or meetings. Saves everyone money and avoids these people.
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