Who supports SPEAK?

By Bloodhound | Filed in Extremism /
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The extremist group SPEAK recently put out a call on its website (strangely it now seems to have disappeared) for ‘supporters of all varieties who are keen to speak to SPEAK’. Apparently the solicitors engaged to represent Mel Broughton (sued as representative of SPEAK in the Oxford injunction) are behind this call. Apparently this appeal ‘represents the only method SPEAK has of identifying who its supporters are, where they come from and how they identify with the campaign.’ It suggests that SPEAK has little real idea how many (few?) supporters it is has and what they are up to; the support base is unlikely to be as big as it claims. What is for sure is that it doesn’t have a clue how many of its supporters are law-abiding. 

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  1. Why am I not surprised? SPEAK are very good at bussing in supporters from far afield to their demonstrations in Oxford but have clearly failed to win over Oxford University students and Oxford citizens.

    This is a marked contrast to Pro-Test who just a couple of weeks ago collected 700 signatures of support from students at the Oxford University Freshers fair.

    Posted by Visigoth / October 17, 2007 | Wednesday | 01:26 PM |
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