British broadcaster Nigel Farage warned of a “new form of communism” on Fox News on Wednesday after Brussels’ socialist mayor Philip Close tried to shut down the National Conservative Congress this week.
Mr Farage appeared on ‘The Ingraham Angle’ and how Mr Close reportedly tried to pressure the establishment to shut down the NatCon conference, where Mr Farage was the keynote speaker, on Tuesday. We discussed. Fox host Laura Ingraham asked the British broadcaster what Americans should “take away” from the attempt to cancel the meeting. (Related: Socialist Belgian mayor tries to force the closure of the National Conservative Congress)
“Yes, I mean, look at what’s happening at every university in America, similar to what’s happening here,” Farage said. “Perfectly rational and legitimate ideas somehow end up being labeled as extreme, crazy and dangerous. What happened in Brussels yesterday was an anomaly. On stage. You saw the clip of me, the police coming into the room to end it all.”
“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke this morning and said that in the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union ruled Hungary, his party repeatedly tried to hold meetings, but venues were closed,” he continued. Ta. . “So what we are seeing is a new form of communism: a globalist outlook, ever-tighter political cohesion, ever greater attachment to globalist structures like the World Health Organization, the European Union and the United Nations.” If you don’t agree with these things, unless you agree to support them, you’re angry, you’re bad, you’re dangerous, and you should be shut down.”
“Well, we fought back yesterday in uncertain terms,” Mr Farage said. “I refused to leave the venue. I told the police, ‘You want to take me out? You have to drag me out.’ And they recanted and we won a court order overnight. So this was a victory for free speech. But, you know, when we talk about cancel culture, the left always says, “Oh, no.[s] It doesn’t exist. Well, this happened yesterday, and now it’s going global, and we can see that it’s actually happening, and that it’s a very harmful form of censorship. ”
During the meeting, which was also attended by Farage and Hungarian President Viktor Orbán, NatConTalk host Yoram Hazony told the audience that officials in Brussels had “ordered the meeting to be canceled because it was causing public disorder.” A video of the moment he said this was posted on Twitter. ”
Hazony said only three police officers were dispatched, and conference officials said attendees were welcome to attend if they wanted to, but those who wanted to leave were allowed to re-enter. He announced that he had decided not to do so. The council later challenged the government with an order, which Mr Farage made clear. We won overnight.
