Anti-Fascist/Anti-Racist demo - Cardiff Saturday 5th June

[ddraig]

just got back
the anti's had more than 500, quite spread out
there was a max of 200 edl and couldnt really see them well enough to gauge properly as they were in the street between the museum and city hall

mostly the police providing the aggro and shoving etc
couple of flashpoints, one where a minibus was cut up and blocked by a people carrier then surrounded and hundreds more arrving
police only just managed to get there in time and get the bus with fash out, they were very lucky
got threatened with arrest a couple of times, shoved loads, hit by a horse once, manhandled and grabbing me and my bike and obviously being constantly patronised
oh and the brave coppers started shoving some of the smallest women there, which was brave of them

antis stood their ground on city hall lawn despite getting penned and squeezed by police and managed to see fash leaving
also heard some antis and shoppers managed to wave them off and show what Cardiff feels at a major junction on the way out
saw a few urbs there, tidy

 

[Ranbay]

Just back also, good to see you mate

pics going up now

 

[ddraig]

Just back also, good to see you mate

pics going up now

yes mate! nice one

 

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[ddraig]

good pics mate
they are a fucking JOKE aren't they!

 

[krtek a houby]

Excellent pics! But what's the story with the Israel flag?

 

[ddraig]

the edl have sympathy for them for some reason
prob something to do with being against muslims is one guess...

 

[Ranbay]

No idea, one was just on the news now.. He didnt know what he was on about?

I saw both arests... lol

 

[krtek a houby]

the edl have sympathy for them for some reason
prob something to do with being against muslims is one guess...

Strange bedfellows indeed - still, looks like a fab day - fair play to ye

 

[Ranbay]

The police where all cunts - FACT

They penned everyone in and the made people cross the fucking road?
They moved us all the time,
I was told it i left one section i couled get backin.
I was told if i went into antoher section i had to stay one hour?!?!?

Then when the white van with DEL went past and it kicked off, all the cops moved down the road...

fuckig joke... and the EDL where lucky there was so many cops... not that i would have done anything but i saw plent of docks boys and Cardiff City lads who wanted them fucked up... they even had sticks with flags on ready for the fight !!

 

[treelover]

'local cardiff boys are sounding off in true welsh style signing "fu*k off back too england"'


this the support you want then?

for a city the size of Cardiff, the turnout on both sides was derisory

 

[Ranbay]

Time for a well earned spliff and a beer me thinks

 

[Ranbay]

some other shots on the camera from today

 

[treelover]

there is not one item from the national media on the latest from cardiff, i think that sadly the EDl will conclude that static peaceful protest gets them nowhere

 

[ddraig]

'local cardiff boys are sounding off in true welsh style signing "fu*k off back too england"'


this the support you want then?

for a city the size of Cardiff, the turnout on both sides was derisory

so what? they were shouting edl edl edl not wdl, not even pretending, along with allah is apaedo etc

i was shouting, shame on you, you're not Welsh etc
what is wrong with shouting 'fuck off back to england' ? they were english racists trying to stir up trouble in Wales.
also there was more than 500 antis and a good spread from what i could see

 

[Ranbay]

The best was when they chanted... "you're not English any more"

i fucking pissed laughing... muppets.

 

[Ranbay]

The EDL where bussed in at one point,, with a shed load of cops...

£250,000 was the cost to police this event today...

 

[ddraig]

my phone pic of the minibus that got surrounded

 

[Ranbay]

I saw the van pass, and i saw the rush of people with sticks after it... they where indeed lucky!!

 

[Ranbay]

found these on facebook, look how many of them there are?

more cops than EDL LOL

 

[Clint Iguana]

The fash are having the same problem, work family etc. if they dont turn up though they are going to be deleted from marshy's face book friends

i think he might be busy with that delete button tonight

 

[PAD1OH]

off flickr

 

[treelover]

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/06/452909.html


It looks like more women are getting involved in the EDL, etc, they are clearly becoming more established, the left taking on the Islamists as whitechapel anarchists are about to do, may help, but for those who dismiss the EDL , i think you are mistaken

 

[Ranbay]

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...centre-protest-marches-latest-91466-26592284/

 

[ddraig]

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...centre-protest-marches-latest-91466-26592284/

"as far as the demonstrators that got on the lawn, they were not aligned to the uaf official demonstration so we could never stop people coming up from the city centre, if you like, of their own accord.

"we were always ready to deal with them, we had enough officers to deal with them and we did deal with them.

"certainly they weren't with the organisers and i have sat with the organisers before and even now, and the organisers don't bear any credence to what just went on over there. What i would say is - why did we take them out? Because they were causing trouble and needed to be dealt with firmly and, as i said, community intervention is great but when people won't comply with the law we've got to step in and deal with it.

fuck off!

 

[Silurian]

'local cardiff boys are sounding off in true welsh style signing "fu*k off back too england"'

this the support you want then?

There is a longstanding feeling that Wales lacks much of the xenophobia, racism and ethnic snootiness of England. Whacking great generalisations imbedded in such a simplsitic England-v-Wales divide, but in this case one taht ought to be deepened and cultivated further.

So, this is the EXACT kind of support we want, ta.

Excellent pics! But what's the story with the Israel flag?

The Israeli flags surely a pathetic visual signifier attempting to shrug off accusations of Nazism. Me think thou doth protesteth too much!, etc...

Wouldn't surprise me if the EDL (and 'WDL') was largely the creation of MI5 types with access to broadband and anon email accounts, leaving these brainless Jeff Marsh oafs to carry the banner and the bearbelly into battle. Can't prove it, mind.

 

[Clint Iguana]

seeing those kids on the photos sends shivers down my spine.