Should the police be shutting down Nigel Farage and the NatCons?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It was a conference that few people here would have ever noticed. Suella, Nigel, Orban - speakers deemed "far right" by the Brussels authorities - found their conference filled with Belgian police as they took to the stage for their NatCon gathering.
The Federal Deputy served a court order on the grounds the conference "endangered public safety" and asked for its immediate closure. Cue great excitement amongst the Nat Conners. They could not be more delighted with this intervention which allowed them to rail - with some justification - against "Belgian democracy".
Has it helped their cause and fuelled their victimhood narrative? Or were police right to act? Later, Rishi wants to ban smoking for anyone born after Jan 1st 2009. Can he? and should he?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. I'd like to say that it's really good to be back in Brussels and that things have improved, but clearly they've actually got rather worse. |
| 0:24.3 | What has happened over the course of the last 48 hours is simply monstrous. |
| 0:31.3 | Nigel Farage and his national conservatives are having the best day ever. |
| 0:56.3 | They are hopping up and down on the spot because their conference in Brussels has just been essentially curtailed by Belgium police, by the Brussels police, who have been sent in by the Deputy Mayor to shut it down over fears of a public disorder. |
| 1:02.6 | And there is nothing that NatCon loves more than being told to be quiet. And nothing they would love more than being told to be quiet in Belgium, in Brussels of all places. |
| 1:13.6 | But of course, this was a conference that we might have ignored totally, |
| 1:17.4 | but for the Belgian police |
| 1:19.2 | and their jackboots, |
| 1:21.0 | which is I'm sure how it's going to be described, |
| 1:23.7 | going in and treading on these innocent popcorns. |
| 1:27.9 | But actually, have they made a huge mistake in... going in and treading on these innocent popcorns. |
| 1:32.9 | But actually, have they made a huge mistake in being heavy-handed when it was a conference that no one was taking much notice of? |
| 1:36.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:41.8 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:43.7 | It's John. It's John. |
| 1:44.4 | It's Emily. |
| 1:45.0 | And let's take you back to the beginning. |
| 1:46.8 | Because this was a conference that, as John says, |
| 1:49.3 | would have probably gone under the radar of 99.8% of us. |
| 1:54.9 | It was happening in Brussels. |
| 1:56.7 | It had chosen one venue. |
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