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EDL Attack Newcastle UAF Meeting

Snowball | 08.04.2010 02:28 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

A UAF meeting in Newcastle is disrupted following similar attacks in Manchester and Bristol

Leon Gloating Over Attacks
Leon Gloating Over Attacks

Picture of Leon Britain
Picture of Leon Britain


EDL members, including Police Liaison Officer 'Tony Williamson', disrupted a UAF meeting on how to defeat the EDL yesterday causing a heated argument and the meeting to be called off. This follows the violent disruption of a Manchester UAF open meeting by 'Leon Britain', also a Police Liaison Officer for the EDL, who led a gang of 8 men who attempted to boot down the door of the refugee centre and attack elderly comrades and students inside (see screenshots). A Bristol meeting was also disrupted.

'Leon Britain', who holds a high position in the EDL ranks, is based in Stockport and is an Orange Order member originally from Belfast. He left for the UK under dodgy terms. The West Midlands Police paid for both Tony and Leon to stay in a hotel for 3 days so they could discuss the Dudley protest, all expenses paid of course.

Videos can be viewed on the following URLs;  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcsKqYkY-O0 and  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RqZyRh3O_Q

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Display the following 32 comments

  1. Evidence of Police Liaison Officer — Beds. HOPE Not Hate
  2. truth only please — swp doesent represent the working class
  3. videos — Weyman shaman
  4. Ehem... — Jim
  5. how was it an attack? — eric
  6. Will this finally push UAF towards a militant anti-fascist approach? — AberAnarcho
  7. 10 factors against — Anarchist
  8. @eric — @eric
  9. @@eric — @@eric
  10. no fan of swappos but... — no fan of swappos but
  11. *sigh — Sonic
  12. Rememebring Kronstadt kids? — Anarchist
  13. Research — IHTF
  14. Keep it up sockpuppet — Sonic
  15. LOL — Anarchist
  16. why it's OK for us to attack fascists but not vice versa — anon
  17. 25,000 Stoke fans chose NOT to support the EDL — Logic_Bomb
  18. 25000 stoke fans — 25000 stoke fans
  19. Sockpuppet — Sonic
  20. Sonic, mate — Anarchist
  21. I agree... — Rudeboy
  22. Replies — Snowball
  23. @rudeboy — fresh prince of wales
  24. no need for violence! — dfdgf
  25. I don't claim... — Rudeboy
  26. If you make a bed you may as well lie in it... — BruisedShins
  27. 25,000 Stoke Fans — Einstein was a Stoke fan
  28. Bunch of dicks vs another bunch of dicks. Hope they all lose. — Yorkshire SHARP
  29. Working Class Against Nazis — steve WCAN
  30. Bicker, bicker, stab,stab, no wonder street antifascism isnt growing! — Maknovista
  31. EDL are the bosses' tool — giuseppe pinelli
  32. EDL Grasses — Jiff Lemmon
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