In the first article there's a lot of agonising but if the majority response to Duncan's speech was poor even when he wasn't being heckled is this not just a ca

In the first article there's a lot of agonising but if the majority response to Duncan's speech was poor even when he wasn't being heckled is this not just a case of him being deeply unpopular? He was invited to speak, surely no one promised him the audience would be supportive?