Edl To Protest In Downing Street.

[anotheoldgit]

Although not widely reported the EDL are to carry out a peaceful Downing Street protest, but various Left-Wing groups have said they will also attend, which as past experience has shown will turn the proceedings into a confrontation between the two sides.

Should the other groups join in with the EDL in common support for our soldiers, or failing that shouldn't the EDL be allowed to protest alone, then we could either see their correct colours or see that they are only there for a peaceful protest?

Or wouldn't that be in the best interests of the Left?

[emmie]

should it matter that our PM is on holiday, and suggest casting aspersions on their educational abilities doesn't do you any credit. Isn't Nick Griffin of the BNP a solicitor, or was, i am sure i read that some place.

[naomi24]

And these are the people who claim to be defending Britain? With friends like the EDL, we don't need enemies!

[Gromit]

The Daily Mail reports:

//
In Woolwich, hundreds of people remember soldier Lee Rigby at the scene of his horrific murder. Just 10 miles away, beer-swigging EDL hijack his death with an ugly protest

Meanwhile 10 miles across London more than 1,000 English Defence League supporters waved placards that read 'Blood on your hands' and 'GB RIP', as well as singing 'There's Only One Lee Rigby', and some anti-Muslim songs as they marched in his memory.
They snarled at United Against Fascism supporters, with both groups largely kept apart by police as they both protested on Whitehall, close to Downing Street. 
Witnesses said that both groups then began to throw dozens of glass bottles at each other.
Earlier the EDL demonstrators pushed their way through a police cordon as they made their way to Trafalgar Square.
They chanted 'Muslim killers off our streets' and 'There’s only one Lee Rigby' and protesters held placards that read 'Blood on your hands' and 'GB RIP'.
EDL leader Tommy Robinson told the demonstration: 'This is a day of respect for our Armed Forces.'
A Scotland Yard spokesman said Whitehall was closed to traffic because of 'a number of demonstrations'. //

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331685/Lee-Rigby-In-Woolwich-hundreds-gather-mourn-soldier-10-miles-away-EDL-hijack-death-ugly-protest.html

[naomi24]

//EDL leader Tommy Robinson told the demonstration: 'This is a day of respect for our Armed Forces.' //

They don't know the meaning of 'respect'! Shameful - the lot of them!

[Gromit]

// the EDL are to carry out a peaceful Downing Street protest. //

ITVNews...

// Scotland Yard said three arrests had been made during the protest and counter-protest outside Downing Street.

As one youth was taken away by police, the crowd began throwing bottles at them.

One officer was hit on the head with a glass bottle and the mob followed the officers, chanting "who the f*** is Allah?" before being pushed back towards the square.

Skirmishes broke out around the square, with several men threatening a youth wearing a Palestinian scarf with a stick before police intervened. //

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-05-27/three-arrests-during-downing-street-protests/

[emmie]

indeed shame on them.

[Snafu03]

the far left are like a spiteful child, stirring up the predictable EDL then hiding behind mummys apron strings, pointing the finger.

As odious as each other tbh I side with the EDL. As a white british male they may be idiots; but they're our idiots.

[jno]

as I am not a white British male I can safely say they are not my idiots and I want nothing to do with them.

[LazyGun]

Help for Heroes have re-iterated their non-political stance and have publically come out to reject any money raised by EDL. Good on them.

I am a white British male and the EDL do not represent me.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/27/help-for-heroes-english-defence-league

[mushroom25]

down with low energy tariffs!!!

oh, wait.........

[emmie]

jno, no idiots of your own then?

and what has tariffs got to do with this thread.

[Brenden]

Good on Help for Hero's for refusing to take their donations.

[mushroom25]

tariffs -

some numpties on social networking sites are still mistaking EDF for EDL.

[emmie]

ah..

[Gromit]

London Evening Standard

// A massive police presence kept them separate from a smaller group of anti-fascist activists, with officers making 13 arrests in total for a range of public-order offences. 
Parmajeet Singh, who is part of a Sikh vigil camped in front of Downing Street against human rights abuses in India, explained how the group got caught in the middle as both sets of protesters threw glass bottles at each other.

Mr Singh, 50, said: "One of them fell in our crowd but did not hit anybody and we were not going to respond. I saw Tommy Robinson telling his crowd to stop. We did have women and a pram in here, and the police were very good, they stopped it quickly." //

http://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/skirmishes-amid-edl-london-march-8633402.html

I'm sure AOG will have a very robust defence of the EDL ready when he returns to this thread.

[emmie]

anti fascist brigade throwing bottles, sure that will please some, thought they were supposed to be reasonable people. And the EDL will get slated no matter what they do, i am not defending them, but have some balance why don't you.

[jno]

aog may have a word of praise for the balaclavas, which look both stylish and respectful.

[dave50]

Why is it that some columnists in certain newspapers refer to members of the EDL and BNP as 'knuckle draggers' but don't use the same terminology to describe muslim extremists who bomb and kill?

[emmie]

that is what i wondered, maybe they fear having their offices bombed.

[emmie]

the IRA wore these balaclavas - remember them..