EU plunged into mayhem as Ireland turns on Belgium over 'flimsy arguments'

Hermann Kelly

The EU has been plunged into mayhem as Ireland turned on Belgium over its “flimsy arguments”.

The President of the Irish Freedom Party said that Nigel Farage is owed an apology after Belgian police closed down a conference in Brussels.

The National Conversatives (NatCon) Conference was taking place with speakers including Mr Farage, Suella Braverman, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and far-right French politician Éric Zemmour.

It was closed down yesterday after the Brussels mayor ordered police to stop “serious disturbances of the public peace”.

President of the Irish Freedom Party, Hermann Kelly, said the decision was based on the failure of the mayor’s “flimsy arguments” and said his behaviour was “unconstitutional”.

Nigel Farage

Mr Kelly, who was at the event in Brussels, said on GB News: “The right to free speech is the foundation of a free and democratic society.

“The people’s right to express their opinions and their political opinions in the public sphere is a fundamental right and the Prime Minister of Belgium said that this evening.

“What happened was unconstitutional because it undermined the right to free speech and free assembly. They are basic fundamentals of European civilisation.

“Remainers lost the Brexit referendum and now they are looking to undermine the fundamental value of free speech.

“A lot of very important and well-known political figures were there, to have a debate and a forum about politics.

“When the Prime Minister of Belgium admits that what happened today was against constitutional rights I think we should wake up and say that what happened was three mayors who don’t have political arguments used the state police to impose their will when their flimsy arguments don’t work.”

The Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, condemned the shutdown as “unacceptable” and “unconstitutional”.

Belgium’s supreme administrative court ruled that there was no evidence of a threat to public order from the event itself and that this seemed to be “derived purely from the reactions that its organisation might provoke among opponents”.