Reform Britischen Politikern sollte es verboten werden, auf dem Campus zu sprechen, sagen 35 % der Studenten

35% of UK students don’t understand the point of university

I bet the same 35% would be all for having Hamas and IRGC members speaking there.

Why single out just Reform? If you’re a student who seemingly can’t even handle any contrasting views, you might as well try to ban Labour and the Tories as well based on the stuff they’re regularly coming out with atm.

That’s pretty low tbf. In the 2016-2022 woke era it would have been easily a majority

I can’t abide Reform, and Farage is a grifting toad, but unless they’re spouting clear actual incitement to racial hatred, we have to let them speak. We don’t make democracy better by shushing people we find disagreeable. And there’s no denying that currently a lot of the UK population think Reform has the answers. That only gets tested in proper, old-school, moderated debates (not the pathetic mockery they have on telly), where they can’t hide in short rabble-rousing soundbites and have to set out actual beliefs and policies for making things better. Including how they’d pay for them, and how they’d „force“ France to take asylum seekers back, for example.

I’m a firm believer that oxygen and sunlight are good bleaching agents for toxic views. If Reform candidates are espousing actual toxic views (as opposed to merely ones I disagree with) let’s have them laid bare in public and exposed to the light so we can all see exactly what we’re dealing with.

If they’re simply espousing policies that don’t stand up to scrutiny financially or politically, then getting them set out and dissected in public is the way to oppose them, not a gagging order.

I think very simply it should be either every party can speak on campus, or no party should

I support freedom to debate different ideas, but Reform don’t help themselves here

> Richard Tice, Reform UK’s deputy leader, said the findings were “appalling” and demanded funding cuts to punish universities.

I deeply dislike the party but they shouldn’t be banned from speaking on campus. In fact, I’d welcome an opportunity to be able to challenge them on their views. That’s what university should be about.

I’m not a fan of Reform, but universities are the prime venue for different views to be aired and challenged in an academic way. Grown adults, not children, are there and are fully capable of rationally debating things.

„Cancelling“ shouldn’t exist on campuses.

So censorship in their favour? Will they extend the same censorship to their oppositions choosen targets of censorship 🤔

When students are paying £9k a year to attend, I think they should have a say on who is allowed to speak.

Isn’t it better to debate and engage with their ideas, exposing weaknesses in what they’re saying, debunking false claims, adopting valid points and understanding your opponent’s views preferable to shuting them up?

so a minority of students don’t want to hear a point of view different to their own – I wonder how many don’t care?

I do think this is a dumb question to poll students on, but I do somewhat understand the reasoning, and I’m surprised the article says the researchers say it’s „contradictory“.

While a large proportion of students support freedom of speech, they tend to have a much stricter view on disallowing „hate speech“. If the 35% of students here think that a reform speaker is likely to say something like „Yeah, those trans weirdos want to trans my child“ or „These foreigners are invading us“ (or something just as xenophobic, homophobic, or racist) then they would call to ban it in the grounds of spreading hatred against protected characteristics.

Remember, right-whiners – you can have free speech, but it’s not license to be a cunt.

Remember that and people might start inviting you to places.

35%, That’ll get them a stonking majority in parliament!

35% puts them in a MINORITY. so ignore them in a democratic poll