EDL "National" demo in Westminster / Walthamstow
Auto | 27.10.2012 17:56 | Anti-racism | Policing
After their disastrous demo in Walthamstow on Sept 1st, and amid much bluster and threats of violence, the EDL threatened to return to Walthamstow today, Oct 27, to get their revenge on the locals, on anti-fascists, on the left-wing, on anarchists and on the police. As it panned-out the We Are Walthamstow coalition mobilised hundreds of people to oppose the EDL, while recent web-chatter suggests that at best just one EDL supporter bothered to travel down to East London.
Around the same time the official EDL protest was moved to a police pen outside parliament, where, massively outnumbered by police and journalists, a miserable 80 right-wing cannon-fodder responded to their leader's national call-out, barely one-quarter filling an already small police pen.
Towards the end of the Westminster demo, the EDL had a brief scrap with alleged "anarchists", resulting in one Fascist muppet arrested, handcuffed and abandoned by his mates, who promptly fucked-off to the nearby boozer, filling approximately one half of the smoking area in the alleyway down the side of the pub. After treating anti-fascist photographers to a fine selection of close-up mug-shots, the EDL were escorted to Westminster tube, to a chorus of almost total disinterest from a handful of slightly bemused tourists. What did the EDL achieve today? That they can just about organise ordering a few drinks...
Around the same time the official EDL protest was moved to a police pen outside parliament, where, massively outnumbered by police and journalists, a miserable 80 right-wing cannon-fodder responded to their leader's national call-out, barely one-quarter filling an already small police pen.
Towards the end of the Westminster demo, the EDL had a brief scrap with alleged "anarchists", resulting in one Fascist muppet arrested, handcuffed and abandoned by his mates, who promptly fucked-off to the nearby boozer, filling approximately one half of the smoking area in the alleyway down the side of the pub. After treating anti-fascist photographers to a fine selection of close-up mug-shots, the EDL were escorted to Westminster tube, to a chorus of almost total disinterest from a handful of slightly bemused tourists. What did the EDL achieve today? That they can just about organise ordering a few drinks...
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