So far over 7,300 letters have been sent to Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire police in protest at the proposed EDL march in Leeds and 2,663 letters have been sent to the Home Secretary calling for the EDL to be prevented from coming to Manchester.
Later today I will be writing to Leeds City Council expressing our disappointment at their refusal to approach the Home Office for a ban. I’ll also be writing to every Leeds City Councillor reminding them of their duty to uphold good community relations and that the thousands of local people who have sent the council letters will not forgive their elected representatives if violence breaks out.
Meanwhile the BNP is getting in on the act with the release of a ‘Stop Islamic Colonisation — No More Mosques’ T-shirt. Their website claims this is by popular demand but it is clearly an attempt to tap in to the publicity generated by the EDL and its protests.
- To add your support to the Leeds protest, please visit here.
- To add your support to the Manchester protest, please visit here.
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"As police officers from around the country gather today to discuss the English Defence League let us hope that there is ambiguity about the strength of feeling on this issue."
Er, shouldn't that be "let us hope that there is no ambiguity about the strength of feeling on this issue"?
Hopefully Leeds Metro Council will have the common sense to ban the EDL Casuals.
After the bin strike fiasco, cutting pay for refuse workers, and not listening to the strikers, Leeds Council badly need good not bad PR.
'Er, shouldn't that be "let us hope that there is no ambiguity about the strength of feeling on this issue"?'
I believe so. I've changed the item accordingly.
Still nothing about this on Northern Indymdia (formerly Leeds Indymedia)
What the heck are they playing at?
The EDL Casuals are only coming to Leeds to incite division and hatred in Beeston, where two of the London bombers came from.
If the march does go ahead, hopefully there will be a combined peace march from churches, synaogoges, temples and mosques, to show united support against the disgusting EDL neo-Nazi football hooligan thugs.
Funny how the EDL lot haven't been yet served with ASBOs.
If they were a gang of street-corner-swilling kids high on alcopops or dope, they'd have ASBOs as long as their arms.
Has anyone else noticed how members of the far right rarely get ASBOs??????
In the 70s, the National Front used to get opposed each and every time they marched in Leeds from white, black and Asian people in unity, and more recently there was the Nick Griffin Trial where we used to turn up each and every day to give the Nazis a hard time despite the intimidating presence of the BNP, the BPP plus the sly bastards with the Redwatch cameras.
Still nothing about this on Northern Indymdia (formerly Leeds Indymedia) What the heck are they playing at?
So post something. There's plenty of information on this site to use. Indymedia is user-generated. If people don't make the effort, it ceases to be of value.
I predict a riot...again...
have you noticed that Redwatch is down btw....
Sadly the government have refused to stop the EDL Casuals march in Manchester, even though the council wanted it banned.
http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/politics/2009/09/post_791.html
It seems that New Labour party-wide aren't interested in stopping organised race hate.
Why, we continue to ask ourselves?
Pathetic police response (and sympathetic reporting by the BBC) of the neo-Nazi EDL Casuals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8261027.stm
VERY WORRYING NEWS FROM THE HOPE NOT HATE BLOG.......
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/510/Anti-Muslim-violence-spreads
BLACK COUNTRY BNP FIRE BLANKS!
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/
Think it is a state inspired fishing expedition to identify the street opposition to muslims and smoke out the street 'fundamentalists'. They only needed a couple of agents posing as EDL to kick it off. If they ban they don't get to see who turns up!
Not a single ASBO has been issued since the Hitler-saluting "EDL Casuals" neo-Nazis took to the streets of Luton, London and Birmingham.
The coppers know most of them as they have football hooliganism convictions longer than their arms, and yet, they are not stopped from travelling, ASBOed, electronically tagged, etc., etc., etc.....
Sounds fishy to me.
Very fishy.
I did think it was illegal to make a Hitler salute in the UK. Am I right or am I wrong???
If so, why the merry fuck haven't the Hitler saluters seen on both video and still pictures had coppers knocking at their doors at four in the morning?
Maybe like the EDL's friends in the BPP such as Watmough (who will be joining in the Leeds demo along with the usual Redwatch cameras), some of them are informers under the pay of Special Branch.
Think MI6 as well as the special branch.
Watmough himself is supposed to be attending the Leeds EDL Casuals fascist march.
Expect the Redwatch cameras to be in full attendance.
Why don't the police arrest Redwatch photographers when they take pictures right under their noses?
In British Fascism, there's always a new organised racist group formed to follow on from the old group, thus the British Movement, Third Way, the National Front, and now the EDL.
When one party gets tired and worn (and toothless), another will take over.
The EDL presumbably are going to take over from the BNP when it goes mainstream after the pointless (pro-fash) Question Time appearance.
The EDL Casuals are like old-style unreconstituted National Front, and they don't (as yet) have the baggage and unpopularity of Nick Griffin belonging to them.
When the time is right, wander how many card-carrying BNP members will change to the EDL?
Pretty soon if the BNP is forced to change its constitution, and stop being the white supremacist party British Fascists know and love.
We must be prepared for this to happen.
It's not fuckin' rocket science!
No wander Nick Griffin isn't pleased at the EDL stealing his jackboot thunder, lol!
I got this off Facebook: -
Host:
English Defence League
Type:
Causes - Protest
Network:
Global
Date:
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Time:
13:00 - 14:30
Location:
Glasgow
Town/City:
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Email:
Admin@englishdefenceleague.org
Even Rangers fans don't like the English.
Obviously Celtic firms won't take kindly to this!!!!!!
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL....
If the EDL Casuals do march in Glasgow, they won't last two feckin' minutes!
When one party gets tired and worn (and toothless), another will take over.
This is far too simplistic there as many strains in 'nationalist' circles as there are in 'socialist' i.e. is the WRP really the Socialist party or the SWP or respect etc? They disagree over policy and ideology and split as much as the left.
The EDL I feel have grown out of the tabloid and BNP campaigns against islamic fundamentalism (sometimes blurred into attacks on Islam in general). Because the former won't support the EDL they are out on their own. I guess some BNP will defect to them but Gri££in won't care about losing those types. The UAF seem to be about a year behind with posters attacking the BNP instead of the EDL! Circumstances has thrown up at least two fronts to fight Gri££in and the EDL and you can't use the same tactics for both. Wake up UAF!
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