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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

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"NORMAL" PEOPLE AGAINST THE BNP

25.09.2010 17:59

THE WHOLE LOT, LOOK LIKE A GROUP OF FAGGOT STUDENTS, NORMAL WORKING CLASS PEOPLE, YEA RIGHT!

ANON

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bnp

25.09.2010 18:29

In response to the first comment. Students or not they are no less working class than fat wonky eyed public school educated prick griffin. Good for the horrible middle class students i say. Bnp fuck off.

bored of the

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WREXHAM FULL OF QUEERS

25.09.2010 19:16

LOOKS LIKE A GAY PARADE, ALL PEOPLE IN WREXHAM AS BENT AS THAT?

ANARCOCRUSTY

smiles

26.09.2010 07:15

fantastic stuff

cbs

Well Done!

26.09.2010 10:08

It seems clear that the 'petition' the BNP are running isn't really a petition at all. Rather a way of gathering peoples details as part of a recuitment drive and to send begging letters to, keeping Dowson, Griffin etc in funds!

¡No Pasarán!

Landale

Brilliant!

26.09.2010 13:43

Well done to all those involved, nice one!

IHTF

Erm...

26.09.2010 19:14

"I for one am in favour of this, but for completely different reasons than the BNP"

So what excactly are YOUR reasons and exactly what are the BNP's reasons?

Some bloke

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Erm...

26.09.2010 19:16

"I for one am in favour of this, but for completely different reasons than the BNP"

So what exactly are YOUR reasons and how do they differ from the BNP's reasons?

Some bloke

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The anti-fascists are the new fascists

26.09.2010 19:53

So freedom of speech is no longer alowed and the fascist anti-fascists don't want troops out of Afghanistan and like to shout everyone down.

Well, there is a voice of freedom movement gathering pace in the UK and we're going to shout you down and shut you down.

You know who we are, and we're not OAPs like the BNP.

If you want street action, then you're welcome to it. We've beaten you off the streets, seen your Martin Smith convicted for assault and we're waiting for gob almighty Bennett to get convicted for conspiracy to commit violent assault.

If you want street confrontation, you're about to meet an immovable force.

Whose streets, our streets, certainly not yours, you dirty unwashed scum.

UKfightback

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28.09.2010 10:45

When I asked the BNP contingient why they wanted the troops out, I was told that 'we shouldn't help Muslims', that in effect they get what they deserve and that 'we shouldn't interfere with them because it makes them think they can come over here and interfere with us.'
I oppose the war because I oppose all war.

A protestor

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