As you say, the BNP need to be defeated through honest debate, challenging their views, and solving the problems that have driven people to vote for them. Those at our SU AGM saw the need to keep free speech; unfortunately, those at the student council meeting refused to pass the pro-free-speech motion, due to not meeting quorum at the AGM.

Maybe it’s just in student political circles, but there appears to be an assumed morality that denies those outside its constraints the right to hold their views, or at least speak them. Currently it’s manifesting itself in anti-fascist actions; how long before Christian beliefs in the uniqueness of Christ, the reality of hell and the need for repentance elicit their active opposition, and we find our freedom to speak attacked?