The EDL in actionA planned demonstration by The English Defence League in central Birmingham descended into violence as the group charged along New Street, close to the city's main train station. One onlooker said: "There were about 250 people in total, fighting and throwing bottles at each other."
The disorder spilled onto the adjoining Bennetts Hill, a street lined with a number of pubs, popular with shoppers. Dozens of riot police worked to contain the disturbance and a police helicopter hovered overhead. A police spokeswoman said there had been "pockets" of trouble but could not confirm whether any arrests had been made.
West Midlands Police said it would deal with anti-social behaviour or criminal activity connected to the protests "robustly" after a demonstration last month turned violent.
Earlier this week the force, along with Birmingham City Council, obtained an order from the Home Secretary banning protesters from the Bullring area of the city, under section 14a of the Public Order Act. Under the same legislation, Chief Constable Chris Sims passed an order restricting the protests to two locations - Lancaster Circus and Old Square. But after meeting on Broad Street in the city's entertainment district, demonstrators proceeded to New Street, around half a mile away, and trouble ensued.
The street, which houses a large number of banks, cafes and chain stores, is a major pedestrian route from Birmingham New Street train station to the Bullring shopping mall. The exact location of the first outbreak of violence is close to the city's Town Hall and central library.
Birmingham Post
The Border City Firm couldnt make the trip with us having a home game today so we got one of your tossers last night.
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Were on the march to get you all !! Killington lake was nothing compared to whats going to happen .
so you better post this you pathetic fucking bunch .
I am not blaming the EDL here as backward hooliganism is their business. It is Birmingham City Council - we told you it would happen and it bloody well has but you chose to ignore us in your own beligerence ignorance stupidity and contempt for the Brummies you are elected to serve.
ReplyDeleteThis Birmingham City Council are a disgrace and a liability to our City and its people of all ethnic backgrounds (at the top of that list are the people who were frightened by these yobs in town today.)
The best thing now that can happen from this mess is the Labour and Respect opposition must table a motion of no confidence in the Council, as they have sat back and allowed TWO fascist riots to take place on the busiest day of the trading week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8239818.stm
ReplyDeleteIt's no surprise that the BBC are helping the EDL Casuals propaganda by repeating stupid claims that they urged their supporters not to use violence.
Nowhere did the fash-friendly BBC admit that the group contained a large number of football hooligans.
This must be because the EDL has close ties to their neo-Nazi darlings the BNP.
Why are the BBC running scared of the BNP? Is it because lots of BBC journalists are on Redwatch, by any chance?
Early reports are suggesting a repeat of August 8th, and battles in Bennetts Hill, between New Street and the Anglican Cathedral RIGHT IN THE HEART of the shopping area. There are reports of scared innocent shoppers and workers who'll remember this next time they have to come into town on a Saturday.
ReplyDeleteThe death threat looks sinister, and I hope that you can get Google to release the IP address so this homocidal-minded maniac hooligan can be banged up for a long jail sentence.
ReplyDeleteP.S., the BBC have painted the picture that the organisers of the EDL Casuals are blameless and peace-loving, failing to mention that they are banned from every football ground in England and Wales.
Typical BBC pro neo-nazi spin paid for from OUR licence fees.
The Border City Firm couldnt make the trip with us having a home game today so we got one of your tossers last night.
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Were on the march to get you all !! Killington lake was nothing compared to whats going to happen .
so you better post this you pathetic fucking bunch .
What lovely peace loving English patriots you are, and fine ambassadors for the green and pleasant country you claim to be in defence of!
What's with the neo-nazi football hooligan death threats?
ReplyDelete"What's with the neo-nazi football hooligan death threats?"
ReplyDeleteWe get thousands of posts like that one and every now and again we let one through just to remind all our readers of precisely what we're dealing with.
"Were on the march to get you all !! Killington lake was nothing compared to whats going to happen .
ReplyDeleteso you better post this you pathetic fucking bunch"
Obviously one of the BNP's more intellectual members!
Haven't we been here before (yawn) ?
1960's White Defence League
1980's British Movement
1990's C18
2000's EDL/CU (BNP's bitches)
I hope the ringleaders of the EDL Casuals are locked up for sentences of at least four years each without parole to act as a deterrent against neo-nazi rioters!
ReplyDeleteAll nazis and football hooligans should be jailed for a very long time.
ReplyDeleteDont care what you get on here from fans defending the sport of soccer football is to blame along with Birmingham City Council.
ReplyDeleteSo busy rioting these patriotic football thugs are, they have missed the start of the England match.
ReplyDeleteIs football only an excuse to inflict violence upon others?
"We didn't see it coming", the council and the police chief will say, when the official post-riot analysis begins.
ReplyDeleteOf course the blinkered beaurocrats didn't see anything coming, as they ignored almost three thousand letters of complaint and warnings from several politicians also.
"Dont care what you get on here from fans defending the sport of soccer football is to blame along with Birmingham City Council."
ReplyDeleteStop using this forum to bash football (soccer!?) - It's a sport loved by millions all over the world.
The racist EDL are to blame for this and nothing and nobody else.
EDL BNP KKK
ReplyDeleteall the same
The BBC's Dominic Casciani said police filled two double-decker buses with protesters from the English Defence League and transported them to Lancaster Circus.
ReplyDelete"Police made them hold their protest in an underpass at Lancaster Circus, where no-one could see them," he added.
This quote is from a BBC journalist at the scene, so why does this contradict the 'ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS OUT' photo which looks like it was taken in the Central Business District of Colmore Row, Waterloo Street or Bennetts Hill, a good 10min walk from Lancaster Circus??
Why are the BBC running scared of the BNP? Is it because lots of BBC journalists are on Redwatch, by any chance?
ReplyDeleteI'm not scared to turn on the Today programme now or Newsnight - listening to both of these programmes' love for all things BNP and racistly far right reminds me of how we Brits used to listen in to Lord Haw-Haw during WW2 for comedic value and nothing else.
'Welshpool calling!!'
Ths has absolutely nothing to do with the cuddly, fluffy, squeaky-clean NuBNP!
ReplyDeleteLooks to me like they got very little publicity, apart from the Beeb.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should all stop paying our license fee as they seem to be the only ones promoting the fash and their agenda.
Looks to me like they got very little publicity, apart from the Beeb.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should all stop paying our license fee as they seem to be the only ones promoting the fash and their agenda.
Like Simon 'Donkey' Darby???
I don't watch the BBC much but that corporation got burned a few years back when the 'Secret Agent' documentary case against Gri$$in and Collett ended with 'not guilty' verdicts.
ReplyDeleteFrom then the BBC have been wary of mounting anything too challenging against the BNP - they tend to be ultra-conservative about possible litigation. They also may view the massive amount of e-mails they recieve from armchair-bound BNP supporters as indicative of a massive groundswell of support for the fascists in the country. We know, however, that relatively small groups of people generate a hell of a lot of this mail.
Well B.C.C, don't say we didn't warn ya, if it wasn't for that stuck-up Tory tosser, the only thing waiting for the EDL once they got of the trains would be a whole platform full of bobbies souped up in riot gear :)
ReplyDeleteBNP/Tories=same
Many people having a go at the BBC.
ReplyDeleteI wonder sometimes...
The Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police must surely do the honourable thing now and resign for failing to protect the citizens of Birmingham from the football hooligans.
ReplyDeleteLike all fascists, they take pride in double-crossing people who do deals with them. Just as Stalin did a deal with Hitler, the Chief Constable agreed terms of engagement with the EDL Casuals, which should have meant the football hooligans would stick to their designated area, but just like their idol Adolf Hitler, the nazis doublecrossed the deal-makers once again, leaving the Chief Constable with plenty of egg on his face.
If a bunch of ragtag soccer bootboys can outsmart the entire high-tech West Midlands force to create a riot that the squad insisted could not and would not happen, the sword must fall on his head.
So do the honourable thing, please, Mister Chief Constable, and resign. Yes, it will mean losing your salary, and possibly some of your pension but YOU DIDN'T DO YOUR JOB!!!
Don't worry, there's plenty of jobs going as nightclub bouncers, which, to put it frankly, is up your street.
You're just a clown!!!
If EDL have nothing to hide and they are as they say they are, ie a peaceful non-fascist racist or confrontational organisation why do they have to hide their faces?
ReplyDeleteSorry is not good enough!!!
ReplyDelete(the BBC photo)
URGENT: - KETLAN AND DENISE:
ReplyDeleteI've just spotted an EDL Casual committing a criminal offence captured on BBC video.
On the following BBC video, does a fascist run down an allweyway (man on the left-hand side of the picture), and out into a shopping precinct, making an illegal Hitler salute?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8240064.stm
If so, this dipstick should and must be arrested for doing this.
Does anyone else notice this man?
If this is indeed a Hitler salute, this proves the EDL are neo-nazis, despite claiming they are not!
It looks very much like this EDL football hooligan did indeed make an illegal stiff-arm Hitler salute.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't the BBC notice this, and remark upon it during the news report?
And the cops. Why the fuck wasn't this fascist bastard arrested for making the Nazi salute??????
With this Hitler salute clearly captured on BBC Video, this should be the end of all pretence that the EDL are not hardcore fascists.
ReplyDeleteHope you can enhance the photo of the Hitler salute and put it on the blog as a seperate story, LUnity!
Knowing the BBC, they will quickly remove the video when they realise it contains damning evidence about the true nature of the EDL.
ReplyDeleteHope this Hitler-saluting dickhead will be shortly get a knock on his door for inciting racial hatred!
ReplyDeleteEDL CASUALS YOUR TIME IS UP!!!!!!
It's close to a nazi salute, but his fingers remain open in more of a taunt/victory yob salute.
ReplyDelete@Eric the fish
ReplyDeletePlease don't be so cryptic.
What do you wonder?
You've got one giving a nazi salute and others holding up an Israeli flag (see the Daily Mail website).
ReplyDeleteCould make it up, could yer?
You've got one giving a nazi salute and others holding up an Israeli flag (see the Daily Mail website).
ReplyDeleteThis was the EDL's 'pisstake of the day' in their last visit they brazenly displayed a Black and White Unite poster, well in front of the BBC cameras anyway.