SIR – I found the brief report on UKIP leader Nigel Farage now needing bodyguards at meetings in case of violence from so-called anti-fascist groups, very disturbing indeed.
My late father’s generation fought in World War Two against the Nazis and their ideology, yet today what is the difference between Hitler’s ‘Brownshirts’, and the anti-fascist brigade(s) who seem intent on violent suppression of anyone’s ideas perceived to be in conflict with their own, just as in 1930s Germany?
Living in a parliamentary democracy that we pride ourselves on, surely free speech for all is guaranteed by law, even the right wing?
Everyone knows who the right wing are as they seem to have acronym titles, yet so far have failed to get any of their members elected as an MP at Westminster, obviously by failing to persuade enough here by their stated policies to vote for them, not through any violent intervention by extremists.
The Labour party should publicly disassociate itself from the anti-fascists as many now no longer understand just what that party stands for.
D S Boyes, Upper Rodley Lane, Leeds
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