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Wrexham: Young people tell the BNP where to go

vg | 25.09.2010 17:36 | Anti-racism

A group of young people held an impromptu demonstration against a BNP stall in Wrexham today, which culminated in the BNP giving up and going home.

Go Away BNP
Go Away BNP

Spot the stall
Spot the stall

Packing up
Packing up

The BNP go away
The BNP go away


The protest was started by a lone student, who was so outraged by the presence of the BNP in the town centre that he found a piece of cardboard and used it to make a placard to convey his message eloquently with just two words: 'GO AWAY.' He proceeded to stand facing the stall and announced that he wouldn't be leaving until the BNP did.

Gradually, the demonstration attracted the attention of other passers-by, who made more placards including 'SAY NO TO HOMOPHOBIA' and 'NO TO FASCISM' and acquired a rainbow peace flag. By this time there was a fluid group of around 20 or so good-humoured young people objecting to the stall and rendering the BNP all but invisible to shoppers walking down Hope Street.

In the face of this determined opposition, the BNP representatives were obviously struggling to keep their tempers and to maintain the thin veneer of respectability they had adopted. One of them advanced towards the demonstration shaking his fist menacingly and issuing threats of legal action after someone apparently called him 'Scum', but the pesky youngsters weren't intimidated by this threatening behaviour and, in the end, there was nothing for the BNP to do but to pack up the stall and do what it said on the placard.

Incidentally, the stall was campaigning for British troops to be brought home from Afghanistan.


vg

Additions

A clarification

26.09.2010 09:40

Just to make sure our message doesn't get miss interpreted, we WEREN'T protesting the withdrawal of troops from the Gulf (I for one am in favour of this, but for completely different reasons than the BNP), but instead the presence of a facist party campaigning in our town.

A protester


re. a clarification

26.09.2010 11:13

Yes, sorry, I should have made it clearer that the protest was against the BNP and not against British troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

vg


Comments

Display the following 5 comments

  1. smiles — cbs
  2. Well Done! — Landale
  3. Brilliant! — IHTF
  4. Erm... — Some bloke
  5. Reply — A protestor