Four of the British National Party’s County Durham parliamentary candidates: Peter Molloy (North Durham), Michael Stewart (North West Durham), Adam Walker (Bishop Auckland), and Mark Walker (Sedgefield), went to Durham University on Tuesday 9th February 2010 to stand shoulder to shoulder with 300 students demanding their democratic right to free speech.

The students of Durham University had organised a protest in favour of free speech on Palace Green outside the university’s Durham Union Society (DUS), which is the venue for the now cancelled debate on a multicultural Britain.

The BNP’s Andrew Brons MEP, and Cllr Chris Beverley were due to take part in this debate, scheduled for 12 February. It was however called off after threats of violence from the fascist UAF criminals.

The Durham Students’ Union newspaper Palatinate reported on the letter sent to the DUS and squarely puts the blame on the shoulders of the National Union of Students (NUS) and the far left Communist Party-front UAF thugs. It reported: “The increased risk of public disorder and intimidation to students and staff has largely been accredited to NUS intervention. In an email sent by NUS Black Students’ Officer Bellavia Ribeiro-Addy and NUS LGBT Officer Daf Adley, the threat of ‘a colossal demonstration’ was posed.

“Many Durham students have expressed their concern about the threatening tone of the letter which had NUS and Unite Against Fascism (UAF) promise that they were ‘mobilising nationally and organising coach loads of students to demonstrate at your university on Friday evening’.
“Chillingly, it concluded with the foreboding warning ‘if any students are hurt in and around this event, the responsibility will lie with you’.

Adam Walker and the other County Durham BNP members mingled and talked with the students before everyone taking part in the protest placed duct tape with ‘NUS’ written on it over their mouths to symbolise not being allowed the right to free speech.
Mr Walker said, “It is just typical of the fascist UAF to stifle an individual’s right to hear what the BNP have to say. There were many students telling all of us that both the UAF and the NUS were the real fascists.”

Before the four BNP candidates left the protest they were approached by a reporter from the Palatinate and gladly gave an interview about the anti-democratic actions of the NUS and their fellow thugs in the UAF.

The reporter asked Mr Molloy if the DUS should disaffiliate itself with the NUS to which Mr Molloy responded: “It’s not up to any third party groups like the BNP to interfere with student business, like it wasn’t the business of the fascist UAF to interfere with the DUS to invite the BNP to participate in a debate. If the students want to disaffiliate, then it is up to them.”
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