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EDL Brighton: We'll Fight Them Near The Beaches

Jo Makepeace | 18.03.2012 00:39

A slightly farcical day out for Brighton's EDL contingent (laughably calling themselves 'The Mighty Brighton Infidels', today (Saturday 17th.)

Full text at

 http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/WELL-FIGHT-THEM-NEAR-THE-BEACHES/

Firstly they turned up outside the launch of Fighting Fascism, a rousing history of the fight against the fash in our seaside town. Why the EDL, who of course are in no way fascists, would want to disrupt a meeting about the historical struggle against fascism in Brighton is of course anyone's guess.

Having failed to disrupt that in any way (although one anti-fascist who confronted them got nicked) they made their way to the regular Saturday afternoon Palestine Solidarity Campaign stall in central Brighton's central shopping area Churchill Square.

According to one eyewitness from the stall “They were barely able to get to chant the "L" in "E, E, EDL" before the cops were on to them and pushing them away from the totally unfazed PSC who were all giving as good as they got.”

The police then pushed the seven racists into the area usually reserved for buskers and a large crowd of over two hundred mostly Saturday shoppers gathered. They clearly weren't terribly happy with these racists shouting out the unique abuse and the usual personal hygiene advice in which they seem to specialise.

Our man on the scene “It was very heartening to see the good people of Brighton booing and shouting at what had now, due to three arrests, become only four EDLers. They were all looking more and more humiliated and frustrated at being so badly received and clearly looking for a way out of this uncomfortable situation with some vestige of dignity.” Unfortunately for them there wasn't any easy way out so they had to resort to shouting "we're bored of this" and then skulking off to claps and loud cheers from the crowd.

“The whole incident was over in twenty minutes but I think the Infidels will probably want to forget today and pretend it never happened!”

Brighton is set to host a demo by EDL front group the March for England on April 24th. Anti-fascists are calling for a counter-mobilisation and judging by today's events it should be a good 'un!
For more:

 http://brightonantifascists.wordpress.com/
 http://brightonantifascists.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/stop-march-for-england-in-brighton/

Jo Makepeace
- e-mail: schnews@brighton.co.uk
- Homepage: www.schnews.org.uk

Additions

Photos supplied by an amused onlooker

18.03.2012 18:08

The Mighty Infidels terrify Brighton
The Mighty Infidels terrify Brighton

What now lads?
What now lads?

Photos supplied by an amused onlooker

Jo Makepeace
mail e-mail: schnews@brighton.co.uk
- Homepage: www.schnews.org.uk


Comments

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Baised reporting

18.03.2012 17:01

It would be bit more informative if this was an impartial report rather than all the 'i'm better than you' putdowns. Its like reading The Sun

Intelligent reader - can make own judgements without spoon feeding


Great report thanks!

18.03.2012 20:37

haha and "casuals united" are claiming this (as ever lol!) as a 'victory' for the far right!

muppet_hunt


inconsistencies

18.03.2012 21:49

There is quite a lot of differences between the report on casuals united and this blog.
Either one report or both are inaccurate

anon


@4nti-n4zi

19.03.2012 00:36

Bit better report, but still has lots of smart-alec comments on the photos aimed at the fascists. Just looking for something that is unbiased without it sounds like some fucking Tabloid newspaper telling you what to think using editorial cliches and puns just in case the reader's are too thick to know what to think. Just feel the whole thing is propagandarized and probably totally embellished to spread the party line whereas Im just fucking interested in what actually happened without the tall tales of UFOs landing and unicorns running around the streets.

more info, less bullshit


Marshy...

19.03.2012 01:03


As we all know, is racist who glorified violent racist attacks on Black Londoners (he talks about assaulting black kids with street signs) in his autobiography, a police grass like Stephen Yaxley Lennon (according to some), and above all

A Lying C*nt!


@more info, less bullshit

19.03.2012 10:02

I see your point. The pictures tell the story.

4nti-n4zi


Prest Harris

19.03.2012 12:40

These muppets appear in some of the pics on this page.
These muppets appear in some of the pics on this page.

of "The Mighty Brighton Infidels" (edl)

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