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Griffin gets a Scottish slap.

antifa | 30.07.2012 11:00 | Anti-racism

BNP run out of Scotland on Saturday.


On Saturday, Griffin had called for 'the biggest nationalist demonstration ever' in Glasgow. 3 (count 'em) Brittanica splitters turned up and were surrounded by hundreds of antifa and hustled away by police, who then went on to kettle, search and film antifascistas, 2 of whom refused to comply on the grounds they had done nothing to deserve such treatment, and are in court today, Monday.

Griffin, meanwhile, was in Dalkeith to capitalise on a local anti-paedophile campaign. He and his small squad were shouted down by local campaigners, and he was involved in an 'altercation' with an antifa as he arrived. (Pictures in article).

Sorry, most of this article is lifted from the Scum, but the picture of Grimacing Griffin is priceless.

 http://liveraf.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/bnp-chiefs-terror-in-clash-with-protesters/

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Thugwatch

30.07.2012 12:02

Antifa thug slaps BNP thug.

Rest of humanity looks on with disgust at both sides of same coin.

thugwatcher


@thugwatcher

30.07.2012 14:04

Thanks

Now do one!


Definately

30.07.2012 14:11


looks like he's soiled himself.

Classy


One animal

30.07.2012 15:38

Antifa and the BNP are now so dependent on the other they have almost become one. There is no BNP threat in this country, their views, their opinions, their ambitions have close to zero support among the electorate apart from a couple of blips now and then. They have as much chance of achieving power as the SWP.

The Antifa movement so desperately needs a Far Right bogey man to "oppose" they have inflated the influence of the BNP to a ridiculous level that is totally unrepresentative of reality.

If one went the other would be gone in a week.

Shakey


@shakey

30.07.2012 22:22

couldn't agree more.

Same old story. People wanna be part of a gang and march around the place showing how hard they are to the "other tribe". Doesn't really matter which one you are in. If it wasn't this, they'd be into man city versus man united.

young males showing off how hard their cocks are. Yet done in a safe manner because the police are there who fortunately keep them apart, so it all ends up being big talk and the occasional fist

If there were 30 deaths, then hardly anyone would turn up because they would all be chicken shit and go and see football instead because they can shout their bullshit in a safe, controlled environment that is policed for their safety.

muff eat


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Thread at Indy Bristol

31.07.2012 08:37

there was a thread over on Indy Bristol where the EDL march was discussed and most people came to the same conclusion as those posters above. The Far-Right has little support and those who oppose them always do so while claiming the police got in their way.

Both sides would wet themselves if the police were not there to keep them apart. 1980's football hooligans all over again. When the Shed met the ICF in 1986 at Stamford Bridge the police stood back for about 20 minutes and neither group would advance too shit scared to fight.

Bristolian


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brons

31.07.2012 10:29

Andrew brons only lost by 9 votes to griffin in the leadership challenge. If he had won the bnp would have been bigger but i agree last comment bnp is finished a tiny party even real nats dont vote for them. Afa/uaf are a total joke in nat circles the talk in nat circles last few years is where to move to in europe.

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@oldboy

31.07.2012 12:24

No one gives a fuck what you think. You're talking shit in the wrong place.

Back to the sewer with you


Troll Stoppa!

31.07.2012 23:44


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Pish Off Ye Braindead Trolls!


Responding to Shakey

01.08.2012 22:28

Q - "Antifa and the BNP are now so dependent on the other they have almost become one. There is no BNP threat in this country, their views, their opinions, their ambitions have close to zero support among the electorate apart from a couple of blips now and then..." ?

A - If by "a couple of blips" you mean the near MILLION votes that got Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons elected to the European parliament, and the over 70,000 votes that got Richard Barnbrook elected to the Greater London Authority, maybe I'd agree. Fact is the BNP are no longer an electoral threat because Anti-Fascists put years of hard work into making sure the BNP stopped being an electoral threat - and we did that before the BNP were able to exploit the current and up-coming waves of cuts, unemployment, austerity measures and privatisations etc, and that in itself was a critical victory for the broad left.

In comparison an equivalent victory was not achieved in Greece, where large sections of the left remained apathetic about the Fascist threat, and, because the Greek left failed to put the far-right out of its misery before the financial crisis really hit, now Greek Nazis have real power in parliament, a strong presence on the streets, and huge support within the Greek army and police (sure Greek Nazis are still very much a minority, but they're not going to let go of the political gains they've made without a very serious fight)

Back to the UK, the specific group that adopted the name "Antifa" had (for all their good and bad points) very little to do with wrecking the BNP's electoral ambitions, and don't (to the best of my knowledge) exist as a formally constituted organisation any more, however the issue that the militant wing of Anti-Fascism is trying to respond to now is the return to right-wing street-violence that inevitably follows any crushing of the far-right's electoral ambitions. That situation has always been inevitable since well before the BNP fell apart as a political party, and if you're not aware of that then you're politically naive

Q - "If one went the other would be gone in a week"

Marge


Responding to "muff eat" (sic)

01.08.2012 22:29

I think you might take a more pragmatic attitude if it was your partner who'd been beaten to a pulp by these runts

m


Continued...

01.08.2012 22:33

Q - "If one went the other would be gone in a week"

Sure - the operative word here being however your use of the word "if". However you might have noticed the far-right AREN'T gone. The far-right started in the UK in the late 1920s, have NEVER gone away, and are out there now trying to build-up their support base to the point where they can confidently initiate real political violence, and that's why they need to be continually opposed (the debate about how best to oppose them is however another question)

Marge


More for Liverpool AF etc

01.08.2012 23:14

Jim Larkin and The Anti-Treaty IRA

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/07/497944.html?c=on

Anti


@m

03.08.2012 01:03

I think you might take a more pragmatic attitude if it was your partner who'd been beaten to a pulp by these runts


strawman argument - my partner hasn't been beaten to a pulp.
If they had - I would. But they havn't.

In a similar instance, if the Arch bishop of cantebury had beaten my partner to a pulp, I would also take a more pragmatic approach about him. But he hasn't..... so its irrelevant.

If aliens invaded Earth, I'd take a more pragmatic approach to them. But they havn't.

muff eat (no sic)


Bless him!

05.08.2012 23:49

with another slap.

slapper


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