The dignified way that the erudite luminary JRM dealt with the situation says everything about him.
The behaviour of the masked hoodlums intent on disrupting the proceedings says everything about them.And JRM has been accused here of being an "Attention seeker" !

Don’t make me boot you up that Jacksie again. Now get out of here you young ruffian.

Edited by DanH (03 Feb 2018 10.09am)

There’s a difference between free speech and freedom to shout insults so loudly that no one can hear each other speak or engage in any form of debate. They’re stifling any form of debate. They should have been told to shut up, sit down, listen and ask questions at the end. If they didn’t choose to, security should have removed them though no doubt they would have claimed this would be “anti-free speech” rather than anti-meaningless shouting and released some form of edited video which would probably go viral and encourage other idiots to shout. Corbyn should come out and condemn this sort of anti-social behaviour, but he won’t.

So your approach to free speech is that people whom you support can speak freely but Tories cannot?

Smacks of fascism.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

A veritable bellend.

This, JRM comes out of this really well. I despair that protestors from either political wing have failed to learn the lessons of Ghandi and Dr King. The most powerful images and arguments I have ever seen are quiet respectable black people sitting at the food counter being dragged from their seats by police with barking dogs. Those images did more to convince white people of the injustice of the Jim Crow laws than some in your face snarling protestor will ever do. King and Ghandi understood to win your argument you make the other guy over react.

One more point