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I'm very tempted to put my account of Jubilee Gardens, which will appear in the book,GLC1.jpg up on here, but that would ruin it's release somewhat. Here's a little taste of one of the pics of my pal on stage just about to clump someone....How is your book coming along Liam?
 
Wonderfully Eddie, thanks.

I have had to change track a bit given the inability of most of your mob to string a coherent sentence together - so I've had to long-finger the 'Two Sides of Hell' idea and just carry on with some personal reminiscences.

Why don't you post up your account of Jubilee gardens? Think of it less as ruining your release... more as a little striptease to entice us lefties into your wacky world of wacism.

And anyway your book won't be out two minutes before it's been scanned and uploaded for free so they'll all be reading it anyway.

But do it now, there's a dear, cos I imagine someone will ban you very soon (which I fear is inevitable but a little short-sighted)
 
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Good. That will allow him time to post up about Jubilee gardens and have his account subjected to some rigorous interrogation. I don't think he will have the bottle* for that though tbh.

When I discussed any incident with Eddie and his mates (him by email and them on a skinhead fb page) they wriggled and diverted to beat the band.

* I don't mean that I think he is a physical coward, or even an intellectual one. I mean they (collectively and individually) seem to have an ability to make their post-event rationalisations into 'the truth' - and posting something up where it can be subject to some rigorous poking and questioning is much more challenging than writing some old unchallenged pish for an audience of dimwits.
 
I have never 'wriggled and diverted' in my emails to you. As said, I can only comment on what I was actually at. Add to this me not wanting to give away anything that is going to be in the book. My accounts will be honest and the difference between us is, I do not have selective memory, like the 'No retreat' book that fails to mention Watford Gap service station. Also, if anyone scans up anything I have written and reproduces or uploads it I will take legal action.
 
Lol, this is all you're getting:

It was my idea to do this gig. About a month before the Redskins were due to play at Jubilee Gardens, along with John and Paul Burnley, I was on my way to a South East London and Kent BM meeting. These were held regularly on the last Friday of every month in the room above Welling library. We had gotten off the tube at London Bridge and I see a poster advertising the gig. I was elated, this was our chance to introduce these middle class commie fake 'skinheads' to a bit of skinhead White Power! I raised the matter at the meeting with the organiser, Mick MacAndrews, now sadly dead. It was decided we would organise an 'expeditionary force' for the gig.
 
I was in quite a few of the confrontations with RA/AFA. Lecomber has also let me see his extensive files created with the help of Lawrence Ruston.
 
Anyone on here at Kings Cross after the AFA inaugural meeting at Conway Hall? I was one of the two chased down York road and luckily escaped in a black cab.
 
Lol, this is all you're getting:

It was my idea to do this gig. About a month before the Redskins were due to play at Jubilee Gardens, along with John and Paul Burnley, I was on my way to a South East London and Kent BM meeting. These were held regularly on the last Friday of every month in the room above Welling library. We had gotten off the tube at London Bridge and I see a poster advertising the gig. I was elated, this was our chance to introduce these middle class commie fake 'skinheads' to a bit of skinhead White Power! I raised the matter at the meeting with the organiser, Mick MacAndrews, now sadly dead. It was decided we would organise an 'expeditionary force' for the gig.
White Power eh? :hmm:
 
A little bit more:

I had brought with me a large hand sewed Swastika flag and my girlfriend was carrying it in a Sainsbury's carrier bag along with a few bottles of lager. I intended to unfurl it on the stage. It's funny really, because it seems like only last week and my memories of the day are vivid. Anyway, We had a few drinks, then sauntered without a care in the world across the footbridge that traverses the Thames from the Embankment station to the Southbank. We assembled around the stage the Redskins were due to appear on and waited for the fun to commence. Rather stupidly, I was wearing a 'Skrewdriver Great Britain' t-shirt and I'd clocked a couple of lefties eyeing me up. A little while after the event, I remember reading the report in the 'Red Action' broadsheet and they actually mentioned seeing 'a load of kids with skinheads, one in a Skrewdriver t-shirt' and went on to say it was a mistake they wouldn't make again in not attacking them due to their age!
 
...............Craney's group had still not shown and by now the Redskins were half way through their set. At one point their singer Chris Dean had likened the exuberance of the crowd dancing in front of the stage area to the storming of the Winter Palace (a reference to the 'Russian' revolution). That would all change pretty soon and the lefty crowd would then be more akin to the Soviet retreat at Smolensk!
 
Feel free to search for an appropriate thread or start a new one although I suspect it'll severely reduce your lifespan here if you veer too far from reminiscing about the good ol' days.
 
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