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Very irresponsible of me, but my first reaction was to be highly amused by the whole thing. We had a conference attended by GPs and pharmacists the same evening and I longed for someone to come and bundle the dissenters out of the room.
More seriously - I don't think heckling is a valid form of political debate in that environment. It might work at Speakers' Corner, but Jack Straw was hardly going to stop and put Walter Wolfgang's mind at rest. If he wanted to make his views known he should have found his own platform - the delegates were there to listen to Jack Straw.
I'm confused that his pass was confiscated under the Terrorism Act to prevent him from re-entering the next day. Is Terrorism now classified as creating a disturbance (with a bomb being the most extreme form of disturbance in that it rearranges the seating plan and the delegates' bodies)? Or is Terrorism defined as something that interrupts political discussion? In which case I could be arrested for channel hopping during Party Political Broadcasts.
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