By 6pm, a headcount revealed that over one hundred local people were now gathered. What was happening was a sudden and spontaneous outpouring of popular anger, sparked by that morning's news - a notorious Nazi extremist had taken a Euro MP's seat for our region. A megaphone arrived and rousing anti-fascist speeches filled the air, invoking the memory of our ancestors who sacrificed themselves in the battles to stop fascist rule in Europe. As the numbers swelled people stood on traffic islands and roadsides holding aloft signs that said 'Stop the BNP' and 'Unite Against Fascism'.
What was amazing about this gathering was that it had been announced only a few hours before. Word got out via SMS text messages, facebook and email, spreading rapidly around networks of families and friends. People had woken up that morning to hear the dismal news of Nick Griffins elevation to the EU gravy train. You can tell when people are really angry when sizeable protests seem to come out of nowhere, and take a only few hours instead of weeks to organise. It was like this with the poll tax and the build up to the Iraq war. People seem to be desperately seeking an outlet for their opposition, concern and rage, and take to the streets almost instantly. The same was also happening at the same time across the North West and Yorkshire, with reports of 2,000 gathering in Manchester, and many other hastily called protests each growing hundreds strong in Preston, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield...
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Andy wilks
09.06.2009 11:28
Andy wilks
prove it
09.06.2009 12:06
Prove it Andy. How are you getting rid of the BNP?
Wandy Ilks
Andy wilks
09.06.2009 13:45
If they are not in with the searchlight scum then let them come on here and denounce them and also remove them from their links section.
Andy wilks
get a grip
09.06.2009 13:54
I say chuck all and everything at the BNP (who don't need our help to be criminalised or linked to explicity fascist groups & individuals - they do it well enough themselves!).
Apart from that, yarda yarda bluster
not Andy
Andy wilks
09.06.2009 14:33
Andy wilks