Ann Widdecombe | We Should NOT Support No Platforming (8/8) | Oxford Union 

Where can we see the results? Thank you

@@xjmg007 I second that request.

I 3rd that request

Governments destroy freedoms, it is laughable that we need to defend free speech. All our freedoms are a Universal given right only to be curtailed by oppressors under the guise of freedom.

@@Duffloop Thanks.

Absolutely! Extremely worrying it was necessary to state a rudiment of our democracy in the most august place of freedom of thought and expression!

Brilliant woman

Hear hear!!! 💙

Says a straight white woman with no problems.

In cavemen countries, free speech is denounced, critical-thinkers ostracised, snowflakes thrive. It’s creating a lot of adult babies!!

I didn't go that far, gave her a clap from my office chair.

the motion to ''support 'no platforming was defeated. so they voted for her

@@lauralishes1 Idiot. They voted with her. The no platforming position was defeated.

If I'd have been watching that on the toilet I'd have still given a standing ovation.

Alan Currie 🤣🤣🤣

Did Ann Widdecombe win the debate.I hope so.

You obviously have never heard the Hitch speak. Ann herself took most of the points from Hitchens. Listens to Hitchens original speech about free speech, the best ever.

@@a.chowdhury6784 which Hitchens? Peter or Christopher?

@@patbateman2088 Obviously Christopher 😂😂😂

@@a.chowdhury6784 you use the word 'obviously' too much, which obviously hasn't been obvious enough to you because you're obviously oblivious to basic social etiquette.

@@patbateman2088 Your reply was quite witty, so I would let that go. But my advise would be to not get so triggered and offended 😂 Regarding the issue, it should be apparent to anyone knowledgeable which Hitchens it was; as Christopher came to the defense of free speech before most of these modern speakers, and they have often borrowed and build on his ideas.

ROFL. Next level uroborus.

That is funny if it is what they mean. But you're misrepresenting what they mean with deplatform. What they mean by deplatform is the removal of others not them.

Well yes. In fact, what the heck are you doing in the Oxford Union at all?

I enjoy watching debates

I actually love how she just threw her time card aaway

And five minutes she got.

Just proving the point why No Platforming is a concept because people who defend 'Fair Debate and Free Speech' always try and steal extra time to make their points. Therefore gaining an 'Extra platform' to influence. If there isn't balance then it isn't 'Free Speech for all' it is one side favoured over the other and costing the other lost time.

@@Cashback13 to be fair, a discussion where points are raised it can take longer to take down each point than it takes to raise it. So if one side asks a triple question it is going to take longer to answer then ask a return question. That said it was just under 5 by that was a boss move

@@Cashback13 Oh poor sookums. YOU are a classic case of equal outcome-ism instead of equal opportunity but modified by real life-ism and circumstantial adaptation.

Me too, I'm from your neighbor country

There is NOTHING nice about her. She is a nasty xenophobe who hates anyone who isn't a subject of the Queen. Truly potty and barking mad.

@@jamesbovington8218hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha you are funny

I think a lot of people don't like that she's very old fashioned, and a devout Catholic. But she's certainly very clever. And has a great deal of experience and wisdom.

@@jamesbovington8218 She's a xenophobe? Really? Do elaborate. She has gay friends, black friends, atheist friends and so on. I'm gay and me and my partner adore her.

I really yelled 'yes!' there. LOL! Wasn't she a star?

Amazing

Well said Anne.

again and again, before the fascists in youtube delete it.

Didn't you understand it the first time?

Who won???

You should listen to her first speech in the EU "parliament".

I Got Worked Bless you poor thing do you by any chance suffer an affliction of the brain.

I'm going to remember that line. I've never been able to say it so well.

@@Redrosewitch Best spoken in the voice of a dalek

And all western countries

Completely agree from Canada in 2023!!!!!!

The kids who didnt applaud are NOT hearing. They are too far gone and i fear for this world. I am glad i am older. I dont want to live in a world where socialism, islam reigns.

@@ataraw.6142 once islam reigns, socialism will be gone.

Not very fund of Christopher Hitchins but I agree with him on this point.

@@ataraw.6142 You mean they disagreed with you. Which you are refusing to 'hear'.

And he was right.

Having an opposition view is part of free speech. They too deserve to be heard.

balancer182 exactly why people shouldn’t be no platformed

@@balancer182 Heard, yes, but not supported. Because their ideas are garbage ideas.

😂 says the handle who has deplatformed alot of people

Yes that is true, but isn't RU-vid now engaging in censorship against free speech? Censoring, conservatives, republicans and even Israel. Forcing a narrative of your agenda, only speak about how anti free speech RU-vid, via Google is.

Ann, not Anne

She is one of the greatest Lady that l know

I'm late again. I have never herd of her, but i think i will like her.

@@amylynnhunt55 hi Amy In my opinion Ann is one of the best parliamentarians this country has had for a very long time. She is straight down the line. She says what she thinks and stands by it. A great lady,and a clever one too.

@Bernard Guy Nunns. Pity your comment couldn't be bothered to spell the lady's name correctly.

Barbara Sherman unreal huh? Like we haven't lost enough ancestors in the past obtaining free speech, only to be on the cusp of losing it, seems unfathomable to me.

As a young person, my generation don't speak for me. I'm with Ann on this one.

Craig Tilley Ditto.

Zen Paul yes the press censorship is really what they need to protest.

To think this is Oxford Union as well. Speech does not compromise. Speech is everybody and everyone; the past, present and future. Censorship is this candy-coated (positivised) prison "young" Britain is duped to think. Im done with this.

steven draper - Lived experience is effective for motivating, I agree. We should be careful not to let lived experience trump rational consideration, however. Anne Widdecombe’s rational argument is what should win the day....for anyone without Anne’s lived experience. I suspect you agree with this already, so I’ll step down from the proverbial soapbox. Stay well.

Anne's speech is a perfect example of why I think we should respect, value and honour our elders. They are not a burden and an impediment to chasing the almighty dollar (or Pound if you're a Brit like me). More often than not they are the best people to ask for knowledge and wisdom, priceless qualities that we need to move our lives forward. Every ancient society (and perhaps "primitive" by our standards) knows to respect their elders for this reason. Every tribal society respects their elders. Even in rich, well developed nations like China and Japan elders are respected. It has become a societal trend in the West to put grandma in a home the moment she causes us any work. I say NONSENSE! Look after your own, listen to them and you will benefit from it.

A great comment from a young lady.. well done.

I am not young nearly sixty. But Widdecombe is barking mad in her hatred of Europe and her desire to stop young British people getting to know their European cousins except presumably on the battlefield...A truly dreadful old crone. Don't be taken in by her.

@@jamesbovington8218 Did you actually listen to what she said? You like most unintelligent people who lose an argument turn to abuse.

@@silverbullet2008bb hmm... But not every elder have so much wisdom like mrs Ann have.

old hag

@Sebastien fp and you fucks are a true illustration of totalitarians.

@Sebastien fp Did you not read my RU-vid account name? I am a classical Liberal you fuckwit. Supporting free speech is now tantamount to being on the far right is it? You leftists become more unlikable and unelectable by the day.

@Sebastien fp No I really don't. I know what the far right are and what they believe (I have studied them at some length). My views and beliefs in no way line up with theirs. Where is your evidence for the contrary? Is my belief in free speech enough to be considered 'far right' in your very ill informed view?

​@Sebastien fp I have. I spent a year at University studying the nature of the far right as one of my modules. I know what they believe and exactly what they are. I know what I believe as well. There isn't a single view I hold that matches up with the far right.

I can't see where anyone could pick holes in the argument she made there.

same

Yes, I'm centre left and a remainer, but I agree with her on this.

Me too... but at least she's on the right side of this debate! ;) (Though, tbh, it's still a pain listening to her... her voice grates on me like nails on a blackboard!)

@@Redrosewitch Unless it was transcribed on to cheese.

The fact that woke regressive beliefs have gone mainstream is baffling within itself. I blame universities, social media, partisan news outlets and politicians.

I completely agree.....my God....what has happened to human intelligence since ww1 and ww2????? My God!!!!!!!! The lady with the purple thing on her head needs to move to North Korea or commu ist China.

They don't make many like her any more.

They didn't agree and voted against her www.oxford-union.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/Debate%20Results%20TT19_0.pdf

@@lauralishes1 That's a lie. The supporters of no platforming were defeated.

@@lauralishes1 You dumb bitch. In that link, it clearly says 'motion defeated'. Are you illiterate as well as ignorant?

@@SonOfExcess oh really? Everyone else that said it, as well as their own website must be lying to?

@@lauralishes1 The website doesn't lie. It says right there in black and white next to the no platforming line - 'motion defeated'. What part of this are you not understanding?

Nemo Says , but triumph will feel great for those on the other side when it is eventually crushed.

Fastnail Eh, no. Did you listen to the full speech? Censorship leads to death camps starvation.

@@LiftOffLife No regime that death camped or starved people allowed free speech, how can you lie to yourself this hard?

Authoritarianism never ends well.

@@LiftOffLife, do you mean after free speech has ended?

SelfReferencingName - it's a truly scary concept, especially because these kids are being influenced by marxist tutors, and let's face it, the slower of the herd latch on to anything. I have full faith in gen z though, they aren't snowflakes and they see the world around them with a big dose of realism. It's also the most conservative generation since the 50s, which is perfect to combat the frankly disgusting state our society is in now.

It’s maddening how self-important the least experienced in life have become in recent years.

@@YendorSignemeck yes definitely!

Pretty disgusted

@@havingafloat I do hope you are right and this crazy SJW shit has peaked.

It's odd how some of the strongest women are non-feminists. Katie did a great job too.

Katie’s was more funny. Anne’s was more technically better.

marc guidetti : Yep. He was in favor of using nukes on Indians (then still a colony) and Africans but not on Europeans...

@@PAVANZYL I'd like to see some evidence of that. Britain had no access to 'nukes' until after India was independent. He is, however, on record as having wanted the US to use nukes on The Soviet Union - technically Europeans.

@@TheNightBadger I did not say that Britain had nukes, read my comment again.

@@PAVANZYL I read your comment. Perhaps I should rephrase my question: Whose nukes did Churchill want to use? What year did he say this? Why did he want - or expect - them to be used on Indians and Africans?

PAVANZYL wrong...India is home of famine, three in one hundred years 1850 onwards

And most of the older ones to .

The wise Aunty that won't take any messing from you at all. Just what we need.

They don't. Watch the lack of applause (and respect).

Yah I'd totally respect her!

Thought you died in commando, with a pipe through the belly, guess not.

@@Marc-cu5mj Was just letting off some steam m8.

@@stellaormes1844 Wrong. Speech is speech, be it fuelled by hatred, love or any other human emotion. By making a feeble distinction you are in fact, playing into the hands of this totalitarianist ploy...."Oh yes, we still have free speech...but not free speech about people we dislike...." No one has the right to decide what is and is not an acceptable utterance. If those words are acted on, then that is another matter entirely.

She did. The same skills as he had. You couldn't have tuned that speech out if you tried.

I did applaud

Ann should have been he P.M.

She's barking mad a real nasty xenophobe. Potty. Desperate to stop British youth mixing with and learning from their continental cousins. Nasty piece of work.

I completely agree! She totally is.

I had lived through a totalitarian government where you are not allowed to criticized the government. People supporting censorship don’t know that they themselves will be censored and will lose their voice sooner or later. People that denies the Holocaust never happened will one day find out that their own existence never happened. People kept in concentration camps was a testament that evil have no regard for life or compassion just to proved that they can silenced people and make them irrelevant. We have to remember that there are children that went through the concentrations camps and experienced the evil and wickedness of human beings at that time.

Thank God they voted for the free speech. Thank you for sharing the results.

Thank goodness. Good job by Katie and Anne.

Same thing, except for sartorial sense.