My political beliefs are liberal - although not in any way which links them to parties of recent decades which have hijacked that name.One of my beliefs is that the Scargills, Powells, Benns of this world are fully entitled to hold a set of views and should be allowed to express them. This applies equally to the BNP as it does to Respect.
I have been horrified yet again to see that a university group, this time The Oxford Student Action for Refugees, is not only wishing to see an end to free speech but has demanded the sacking of Professor David Coleman who is a leading demographics expert.
Professor Coleman has committed the heinous crime of having advised MigrationWatch. For those of you who do not know, that august body is the only place where you can go to find the true state of immigration into this country. It tells the unvarnished - and unpalatable - truth.
Times-a-many the government has had to admit to MigrationWatch's statistics being more accurate than their own. The group is politically neutral.
If these are the sort of students which Oxford is now producing, then we are in big trouble.
I do hope that they are unrepresentative.
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***A denial by the student group was published on the 7th March where this matter was apparently clarified. It seems that they only asked whether he should continue to be employed. Hair-splitting!
