In 1977 PIE sent delegates to the NCCL conference at Swansea, and invited pro-pedophile campaigners from the Continent to come to Britain to speak. One of these was Dr Edward Brongersma, a Dutch MP, who spoke at the conference of the [[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]] in Nottingham in August 1977, in favor of reducing or abolishing the legal age of consent, and received a standing ovation.<ref> Mathew Thomson, ''Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement, | In 1977 PIE sent delegates to the NCCL conference at Swansea, and invited pro-pedophile campaigners from the Continent to come to Britain to speak. One of these was Dr Edward Brongersma, a Dutch MP, who spoke at the conference of the [[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]] in Nottingham in August 1977, in favor of reducing or abolishing the legal age of consent, and received a standing ovation.<ref> Mathew Thomson, ''Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement, |