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Toby Young, the EDL and the Rally Against Debt

Contributor | 26.04.2011 11:12 | Education | Health | Public sector cuts

A nasty little bunch of right-wing chancers are organising a Rally Against Debt to show public "support" for public service cuts, scheduled for 11am to 2pm at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London, May 14 -

A nasty little bunch of right-wing chancers are organising a Rally Against Debt to show public "support" for public service cuts, scheduled for 11am to 2pm at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London, May 14. The Rally Against Debt is organised by UKIP and the Taxpayer's Alliance - one of those Artisto/Tory-funded "grass-roots" organisations like The Institute for Economic Affairs, Adam Smith Institute and Coalition for Peace Through Security (anti peace movement group of the 1980s) etc that take fantastically expensive office suites around Westminster when genuinely grass-roots campaigns are perceived to be having too much success. The Rally Against Debt is semi-famously supported by professional glutton (restaurant reviewer) Toby Young, who obviously won't ever seek state funding for his planned "Free School" for fear of being branded a total hypocrite!

Given that even The Daily Mail admitted 500,000 people marched against the cuts on March 26, if the Rally Against Debt manages to attract more than 200 twits I'd be impressed. Coalition of Resistance have dropped plans to oppose the Rally Against Debt, but, just for a laugh, here a few ideas to wind them up...

1. Dress very smart, join their march, and display huge banners to newspaper and TV cameras saying "Support the Cuts - Keep the Poor Out of Oxbridge", "Sell the NHS to Richard Branson", "A&E? Who Cares!", etc

2. Seeing as how much the EDL hate anti-cuts protestors, message EDL activists through Facebook and You Tube and encourage them to show up at the Rally Against Debt

Have fun ;)

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The EDL do not hate anti-cuts protesters!

26.04.2011 11:54

The EDL leadership only spoke out against the violence caused by anti-cuts and student protesters not against anti-cuts protesters as such or against the anti-cuts movement. Get your facts right before writing a report. Your bias in reporting is worse than that of the Sun newspaper!

unbiased reporter.

Proof the EDL hate anti-cuts campaigners

26.04.2011 12:59



The EDL photoshopped an anti-cuts banner that originally said "March against the Cuts", changed it to read "March against the Troops", then EDL activist Pablo Carpo (Paul Carpenter) posted the fake image all over Facebook, drawing approval (as you can see in this screen-cap) from EDL organisers Joe Cardiff (Jeff Marsh), Tommy Robinson, Kevin Carroll, Joel Titus, Baz Olyed, Bill Baker, Snowy Shaw and others. The guy depicted in the EDL's fake image is a Jewish Trades Unionist called Alec McFadden, who was famously knifed after being named on the Nazi Redwatch website for campaigning against Liverpool BNP. After the EDL posted the fake anti-troops banner, surprise surprise Alec McFadden was once again bombarded with death threats from right-wing extremists.

1st photo - the original anti-cuts banner

2nd photo - the photoshopped fake anti-troops banner and EDL names screen-capped from Pablo Carpo's Facebook page

Just this weekend the EDL and NF teamed up to harass anti-cuts protestors in Newcastle...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVmWS-_Xsfc

Input hopper

Space Hijackers

26.04.2011 13:04

One for Space Hijackers perhaps?

Max

EDL "supporting the true racial nationalism of the NF" (sic)

26.04.2011 20:47


Following reports that the NF and EDL joined forces to harass Coalition of Resistance / anti-cuts protestors in Newcastle, a user called "Candidate" posted on Stormfront (the American KKK web forum) describing the NF / EDL incident as follows (see screen-grab)

"Over sixty members of the National Front backed up by around forty supporters from the EDL marched on Saturday morning through Newcastle centre to Grey's Monument, the traditional rallying point each year for the North-East Region's St. George's Say Assembly. NF members applauded a march past of the Royal Fusiliers and presented them with a St. George's day flag! About eighty Communist trouble causers turned up but scurried behind police lines when they saw the size of the Front turn out. After a short ceremony and speech by Simon Biggs, the Front and supporters marched back to their starting point. A fantastic result for Newcastle Front and good to see a section of the EDL who are supporting the true racial nationalism of the NF."

 http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t796560/ (use IP shielding)

Happy Shopper

nf fantasy in newcastle, peaceful cultural diversity reality

26.04.2011 23:57

there were about twenty nf, they stood at the monument, they didn't march any where or give any flags to the military, they may have talked to each other but there was no noticeable 'speech' not for any one else to hear and the more numerous anti facists of various local groups most certainly did not hide behind the police. The NF did not exactly look match fit, the edl were much greater in number and looked far more like business and in reality there was not a strong anti fascist presence, we weren't out numbered but we weren't exactly huge either. The police kept us away from the edl and the nf and inspite of a decent effort by the edl to encroach on our space we eventually got some good music going and they fucked off to get pissed and we saw very little more of them. It is seemingly quite well documented though however the links between the three groups incl bnp, surprise, all the far right have a lot in common

geordie