About 1,000 officers from 18 forces policed the protests in Peterborough town centreAbout 1,000 officers from 18 forces policed the protests. Cambridgeshire Constabulary said about 500 EDL protesters were involved. They said about 80 people took part in the Peterborough Trades Union Council protest and no arrests were made there. Both groups were escorted by police to and from the city centre.
Supt Paul Fullwood, from Cambridgeshire Constabulary, said the joint police operation had enabled the community to go about "business as usual".
"Peterborough stood firm and the city should be proud of the way it has responded to today's events," he said. "There were some issues of disorder dealt with promptly and professionally to achieve a peaceful outcome. Some arrests have been made, but both protests have been generally peaceful."
'Stir up hatred'
EDL leader Tommy Robinson said: "Militant Islam is probably at its peak in this country. The problem will get worse and worse unless it's tackled, and that's what the English Defence League is trying to do."
Shortly after 1300 GMT he gave a speech via a loudspeaker in Lower Bridge Street. Some supporters chanted "EDL" and "I'm England till I die". Police said most protesters had left the city by 1545 GMT and roads which had been closed ahead of the demonstrations had reopened.
Unite Against Fascism said it and Peterborough TUC had called for a "march for unity" from Bishops Road car park to show local opposition to the "invasion" by the EDL.
"The EDL hope to stir up hatred against the city's Muslim population and the many migrant agricultural workers who travel from across Europe to work on farms during the harvests," a spokesman said.
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lol at those famous defenders of gay rights, the EDL, booking Pastor Terry Jones for their Luton demo.
ReplyDeleteWonder what the endlessly promoted LGBT 'Division' think of that little brainwave, given his track record of ant-gay extremism?
Hopenothate are launching a campaign to get Pastor Jones banned from the UK. It's a certainty that the EDL will burn Korans before and during the Luton demo.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt Tudway will still claim that the EDL are not political and just a 'football related thing'
TERESA MAY ASKED TO BAN THE EDL'S VERY OWN AMERICAN HATE PREACHER FROM THE UK: -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/11/theresa-may-edl-terry-jones
(AND THEY DARE TO SAY THEY OPPOSE RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM!!!)
"Wonder what the endlessly promoted LGBT 'Division' think of that little brainwave, given his track record of ant-gay extremism?"
ReplyDeleteProbably the same thing that they felt after being beaten unconscious by the EDL's majority of homophobic thugs during that famous homophobic attack in Wetherspoons a few months ago.
The EDL never did pass on the names of the culprits to the cops, even though they knew their identities.
Gay and lesbians in the EDL are like turkeys voting for Christmas.
As are Jewish people.
It must be remembered that there were gay people in the SS before the nazis turned on them.
And Jewish voters helped get Mussolini elected in Italy, to which he repaid their loyalty by sending them to their deaths in the holocaust.
Never trust the far right. They always turn on all minorities when the time is right, and the EDL are no different from any other European or American neo-Nazi group.
.....many migrant agricultural workers who travel from across Europe to work on farms during the harvests,"
ReplyDeleteI thought the EDL restricted their hate to moslems?
I think the nazi Densleys want gays in their ranks because of their own proclivities.
ReplyDeleteI certainly wouldn't want to be a gay Densley.
EDL leader Tommy Robinson said: "Militant Islam is probably at its peak in this country. The problem will get worse and worse"
ReplyDeleteHow can it get worse if it is already at its peak? Logic has never really bothered fascists has it.