Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

‘Major action’ by fascist ‘Hard Men’ in Leeds

West Yorkshire Antifascists | 28.09.2008 11:09 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

For the first time in ages, Tony White has bravely gone into Leeds city centre in broad daylight! 'Big T' said he felt safe with Kate McDermody's bodyguard's strong arms around him.

How sweet!
How sweet!

'Wigan Mike' bravely takes down a note from the Common Place door
'Wigan Mike' bravely takes down a note from the Common Place door


A few days ago ageing fascist nobody ‘Wigan Mike’, ousted fuhrer of the laughably-named ‘Aryan Strike Force’, went over to Leeds to meet up with Tony White. White, a longstanding nazi with mental health problems, has something of a chequered history to say the least, and when he has not been in prison, has spent recent years in the political wilderness, ostracized by his fellow fascists for being a police informer (if only they knew the half of it!) White, like many in the orbit of the ‘British People’s Party’ has also been linked to child pornography, in his case to distributing it.

It is an indication of just how desperate the BPP and their allies are that they are now willing to work with White again. Kevin Watmough, still supposed leader of the BPP (despite Kate McDermody clearly running the show), hates White’s guts, but has not been averse to exploiting him in the past. White, who vacillates between being a nazi and pretending to be Jewish, depending on whom he’s talking to, and whether or not he’s in court, is obviously too stupid to have much of a clue as to what’s going on. No excuses for White though, he’s a nasty piece of work whose had his last chance of retirement.

‘Wigan Mike’ is another dumpling Kate McDermody is exploiting to shore up her squalid political ambitions. We hear she’s been slagging of RVF big boy Ade Brookes, who seems to have twigged to the fact that he’s one of the people doing the dirty work for “my demo” as McDermody calls the BPP demo in Leeds on October 18th, while she prances around protected by the cops.

After so many years as a political nobody, even on the lunatic fringe of British fascism, unwanted even by the pot-bellied oafs that make up the BNP ‘security team’, Wigan Mike’ is enjoying acting as McDermody’s personal ‘security’ guard. She’s already got him nicked once on weapons charges, but he openly relishes the idea of going to jail. Perhaps Tony White has told him just how much fun it is living with the other grasses and nonces on the various ‘protection wings’ he’s been on.

Dum and Dumber were hobnobbing round Leeds the other day, and seeming as the Common Place (a rented ‘social centre in Leeds the Fash seem to think is Antifa Central) was closed, as it invariably is midweek, they decided to claim the greatest victory for British fascism since Sid Williamson bravely put a leaflet through the letterbox of Brighton’s ‘Cowley Club’. The Daring Duo had their photos taken outside the closed door of the Common Place (what courage), and then (gasp), they took down a note that had been left on the door! Oh, and they also claimed to have visited a ‘red shop’ round the corner where the staff claimed to know nothing about Antifa – Hardly surprising, since the shop the idiots visited was most probably a nearby piercing studio, which just happens to be called ‘Red’!

Mike also makes grandiose claims about the pair of them stomping round the Calls Lane/Lower Briggate area in “full skin racial gear”. What, you were wearing Harringtons? The sight of two shaven-headed men in Harrington jackets and DM’s would hardly raise an eyebrow in Leeds’ Gay quarter, particularly with the ‘tache Tony is sporting! Why don’t you just come out of the closet Mike?

Thanks for the pics anyway (your personal security is amazing), but if you really do want to meet up sometime, can we suggest that

1) Unlike you nazis, most of us work midweek

2) The Common Place is often closed and is not a hangout favoured by militant antifascists.

3) Let us know you’re coming. Leeds is just a little bigger than Wigan and we wouldn’t want to miss you.

4) Or post up some contact details and we’ll pop over to see you.

We’ll see you on October 18th, if not before, and we’ll see how much you and Tony are smiling then.

SMASH THE BPP – NO NAZIS ON THE STREETS OF LEEDS!
SATURDAY 18TH OCTOBER, 11.00AM
HMV, LANDS LANE, LEEDS CITY CENTRE

Related links:

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2008/09/408302.html

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2008/09/408237.html

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2008/09/408225.html

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2008/06/401892.html

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2008/09/409264.html

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2008/09/409433.html


PDF leaflet for the Leeds demo:  http://www.antifa.org.uk/BPPRapLeaflet1.pdf

PDF poster for the Leeds demo:  http://www.antifa.org.uk/Never%20Again.pdf

West Yorkshire Antifascists
- Homepage: http://www.antifa.org.uk

Comments

Display the following 9 comments

  1. Worried [not] — concerned of gipton
  2. Another Wigan nazi — NaziHunter
  3. MEETING — WIGANMIKE
  4. HARD WIGANMIKE? — WIGANMIKE
  5. Great action Mike! — Leeds Antifascist
  6. Oh you silly Antifa — Wigan Mike
  7. Is Mike applying for MI5? — MonkeyBot 5000
  8. In their ghetto — Stroppyoldgit
  9. White nicked again! — Old lag
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech