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EDL Woolwich Washout!

Malatesta | 30.06.2013 09:53 | Anti-racism | London | South Coast

The EDL had a less than successful time this weekend.

On Saturday, Tommy Robinson of the EDL held what he called a charity walk but which was in fact a bout of shameless self-publicity and a media grab that fed his nasty little ego for another week but failed to give a much needed boost to his failing and splintered organisation. Tommy had applied to plod for permission for his ‘Charity Walk’ which Scotland Yard denied and told him in no uncertain terms, in a widely distributed document, that he would be arrested, if he entered the East End.

 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=372925519476187&set=a.190265001075574.30539.161167380652003&type=1&theater

Here’s a tip: if plod issues a letter telling you they will arrest you if you do something, and you do it, don’t complain when they arrest you. By doing precisely this Robinson got his weekly media fix and so he could disingenuously claim to be some sort of martyr. As opposed to a serial criminal with a long police record. When Robinson contravened the order and was promptly arrested he was luckily accompanied by several TV camera crews all vulturing over him for some easy pickings.

Robinson had said he was going to walk from Marble Arch to Woolwich via the East London Mosque to ‘commemorate’ Lee Rigby the soldier who was murdered recently. Apart from the fact that it was highly unlikely he could manage more than a couple of miles, what an inflammatory trip via the mosque had to do with Lee Rigby’s ‘memory’ is anyone’s guess. The little Muppet set off with cousin Beaker and was shadowed by 3 plod vans and our intrepid reporter from EDL News. After barely 10 minutes they stopped off for a McDonald’s – which shows they had no intention of doing the full stretch: greasy fried food is not good for long distance walking. After stuffing their faces they set off again only this time losing their rather overweight cameraman who couldn’t match their bovine pace and dropped further and further behind. We eventually saw him again in Woolwich getting a parking ticket outside Wetherspoon’s. Well done. As the Muppets entered Aldgate there was a confrontation with two anti-fascists which caused Tommy to start whining ‘arrest them! arrest them!’ as the police arrested him. This film shows that KKKev hit out first.

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Robinson was dragged off to the plod van where his vain delusions of martyrdom could hatch. In case you don’t know, the charity for which he was embarrassing had rejected him and the EDL’s money as toxic (Help 4 Heroes also rejected EDL money) so his march was not for a sick girl but for a sick boy desperate for column inches. The Rigby family have also publicly distanced themselves from Robinson.
Meanwhile, we headed off to Woolwich where the Armed Services Day was in full swing. After searching the area we came across a group of 20 anti-fascists but very few EDL. As we headed back into Woolwich we found the EDL unsurprisingly kettled by plod in Wetherspoon’s. They didn’t get the chance to lay flowers in memory of Rigby as the Army barracks didn’t want them hijacking the day and so their mission completely failed. Instead, they did what they do best: got pissed on cheap lager. Well done.

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So all in all not a great day for the EDL: leaders arrested; followers denied laying flowers; poor turnout and all round recrimination from right and left for Robinson’s shameless hijacking of Armed Forces Day, Rigby’s murder and the little girl’s charity with even some halfwit bugles from the far right Casuals claiming that he is a ‘f***ing attention seeking, money grabbing parasite.’ Well said you wee arsespangle!

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As was intended the EDL foot and mouth soldiers immediately started whinging, claiming that the police were enforcing Sharia law - which was almost as good as when they referred to David Cameron as ‘a cultural Marxist’ (whatever that means). The EDL balloons also claimed that Whitechapel is a ‘no-go area’ for non-Muslims. Sorry fellers but anyone who cares to stroll up Brick Lane for a fine salt beef bagel, stop for a pint in one of the many bars or perhaps even do a wee bit of shopping in Spitalfields will tell you that this is a blatant and absolute lie by made up by people who have obviously never even been there.
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Despite Robinson getting plenty of publicity this week, the EDL completely failed to mobilise any significant numbers on the day or indeed organise much beyond a round at ’Spoons. Be seeing you!

Malatesta

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Helping plod

30.06.2013 18:22

Plod had two helpers from Brighton who gave them the reason needed to arrest ratboy and uncle kev keep an eye on Purcell & Cole state assets dont come more obvious than these two .

Watcher


@Watcher

30.06.2013 19:59

Hahhaahahahahha - worst attempt at trolling ever. Give yourself a smack on the arse.

Hysterical


Hysterical

30.06.2013 22:59

lets hope you dont end up in a cell with little to laugh about

Watcher


Fake "Anti-Fascist" celebrates high-level Nazi collaborator!

30.06.2013 23:01

There's heated debate on existing Indymedia threads about the relationship between a tiny (and totally unrepresentative) minority of Irish Republicans in Liverpool and the James Larkin Republican Flute Band - a Liverpudlian marching band who openly support the "32 County Sovereignty Movement", the 32CSM being the political wing of the indiscriminately murderous (so-called) "Real" IRA. Few people have done more to divide the working-class, to discredit activist politics, and to isolate progressive movements from existing and potential supporters in the broader community, than those who indiscriminately kill men, women and children, in the name of any political cause - in the case of the killers and racketeers of the Real IRA however, these morons even stooped to murdering civilians from their own community*! The Twitter feed for the James Larkin Republican Flute Band makes repeated links to a pro-32CSM blog which contains the following article (quoted here verbatim and in full) -

 http://gaughanstaggcumann.blogspot.com/2013/03/gaughanstagg-cumann32csm-continues-to.html

"Gaughan/Stagg Cumann(32CSM) continues to build on the unity between Antifascists and Irish Republicans, resisting fascism. Gaughan/Stagg Cumann (32CSM) joined Antifa Comrades in Manchester today to directly challenge the right wing fascist. Comrades set off from Piccadilly Gardens towards the fascist lines, only to meet with the mounted police and paramilitary style police. The police once again giving protection to fascist who are not wanted in Manchester. When the Gaughan Stagg Cumann announced its arrival in Albert Square, by unfurling the National Flag, the fascist surged forward, stopping when Republicans and Antifa reciprocated with the war cry ‘NO PASARAN, continuing with pro republican chants, quelling the once vocal fascist. The Gaughan Stagg Cumann once again stood with comrades in Antifa, as we have in Liverpool and Wakefield. The Gaughan Stagg Cumann organised in Liverpool to defeat the anti Irish racism and took a direct stand against the fascist in October 2012. We will work with all progressive revolutionary groups to defeat fascism, wherever it lurks. NO PASARAN!" The article ends by quoting "Frank Ryan, Irish Republican activist and Anti-Fascist Soldier of the International Brigades" as stating "Some men must die lest all men live like slaves..."

What the article fails to mention is that Frank Ryan was a high-level NAZI COLLABORATOR who spent most of WW2 in Berlin working for Hitler's SS

Warning to Anti-Fascists.... don't be fucking mugs.... don't ignore the fucking warnings.... YOU'RE BEING SET-UP





* The Omagh bombing was a car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), a splinter group of former Provisional IRA members opposed to the Good Friday Agreement, on Sat 15 Aug 1998, in Omagh, County Tyrone. Twenty-nine people died and approx 220 were injured. The victims included people from many different backgrounds: Protestants, Catholics, a Mormon teenager, five other teenagers, six children, a woman pregnant with twins, two Spanish tourists, and Irish civilians on a day trip from the Republic. The bombing created a strong international and local outcry against the RIRA, which later apologised, and spurred on the Northern Ireland peace process....

A peace process which, despite their apology, the Real IRA still oppose

Shed 7


state?

01.07.2013 06:08

you want to ask hel gower what she has on tommy grassing to the SB mate. or ask diddyman why he can get round the country and yet doesnt have a job. EDL was set up to monitor football hooligans and far right. tommy even sold you hoodies with your home town written on it so plod could easily identify you. fecken amateurs.

Malatesta


arrests

01.07.2013 06:09

and tommy had been issued with a letter from plod saying dont go into the east end or he will be arrested. he went past into the east end and got arrested. eejit. he is also a whining little maggot 'arrest them for assault arrest thenm assault'! what a top boy.

Malatesta


@Malatesta

04.07.2013 19:41

yeah whatever, Tommy's number one fan talks drivel again.
give it a break. If the EDL were nothing you wouldn't be going on and on about them.

EDL are real and there. A viewpoint that needs to be accepted and reasoned with, not just ignored as that incubates resentment and bad feelings.

more damage than good