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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/147117/EDL-extremists-take-kids-on-London-anti-Muslim-demo/
The Uh Ah DS certainly seems to have changed their tune regarding the Edl in the last few months :hmm:

:hmm: indeed. I remember stuff like that, mentioning they were far right and "extreme", but still giving them more coverage than most other papers. I was thinking to my conspiranoid self: is this testing the water or "no such thing as bad publicity"?

A change of tune need not be accidental or inconsistent, but part of a calculated, or semi calculated progression.
 
He said the organisation’s main aim was to outlaw the Koran then adapt it to fit in with British society. He said the only way to do this would be to force Muslims to realise the words of their holy scriptures are outdated.

Bone-headed bigotry isn't the height of modern, either.
 
If anyone can be arsed to "debate" these dregs of our culture I'd like to know the means by which outlawing the Koran will be instigated. For example, is everyone owning a copy to be arrested, or will they limit it to buying and selling? What if the police dont want to arrest someone one for owning a book?

If the muppets want to attempt to be taken seriously and honestly they must answer serious and honest questions about their stated aims.

This "policy" alone would probably require more authoritarianism than even the BNP would openly admit to.
 
If anyone can be arsed to "debate" these dregs of our culture I'd like to know the means by which outlawing the Koran will be instigated. For example, is everyone owning a copy to be arrested, or will they limit it to buying and selling? What if the police dont want to arrest someone one for owning a book?

If the muppets want to attempt to be taken seriously and honestly they must answer serious and honest questions about their stated aims.

This "policy" alone would probably require more authoritarianism than even the BNP would openly admit to.

not wanting to come to their defence but surely it would be outlawing the implementation of the teachings in the koran.

I know it's easy to kinda pick holes but when the anarchists have 'nutty' chris knight as their main headline grabber, tommy robinson doesn't come across that badly.

Downplaying the social significance of opposition seems to be the left's achilles heel.
 
It (ban the koran) is primarily an attention getting exericise, it's copying Wilders - it's the same stuff that leads nick griffin to say the Italians should sink boats with illegal immigrants on them. Neither of them expect it to happen. They do both know though that expressing often widespread social prejudices in an aggressive or extrem way works to get focus attention on your little racket and for very little expenditure of effort.
 
It (ban the koran) is primarily an attention getting exericise, it's copying Wilders - it's the same stuff that leads nick griffin to say the Italians should sink boats with illegal immigrants on them. Neither of them expect it to happen. They do both know though that expressing often widespread social prejudices in an aggressive or extrem way works to get focus attention on your little racket and for very little expenditure of effort.

That's all true, but they should still answer the questions if they think they should be taken seriously. If it's just vapid posturing for effect then every time Robinson/Lennon and his ilk get in the spotlight it is the journos professional responsibility to challenge them on it
 
Turns out Robinson / Lennon has been on LBC this morning. Don't know how it went, but I'm seriously wondering how they are getting all this coverage. Do they have a new media person with mega contacts?
 
He's was on BBC Wales yesterday :( been on somthing almost everday the past week or so....

The had few people calling in talking about no go Muslim areas in Cardiff? where they feel the will get cut up if the go down there alone?!?!?

Fucking idiots...
 
He's was on BBC Wales yesterday :( been on somthing almost everday the past week or so....

The had few people calling in talking about no go Muslim areas in Cardiff? where they feel the will get cut up if the go down there alone?!?!?

Fucking idiots...

Some people probably do "feel" that, because their head has been filled with biggoted shit by the likes of The Daily Star.
 
Here's today's puffpiece in the daily star.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/176113/EDL-boss-Tommy-Robinson-says-he-has-24-hour-guard-/

The rag itself carries a massive headline along the lines of WE WILL BEHEAD YOUR FAMILY.

This is probably true in the same way as last weeks assasination was true, or that the Luton turnout was gargantuan. Btw, the Star and Express have removed themselves from the auspices of the Press Complaints Commission (toothless as it generally is). They must want to be at even more liberty to lie and stir up hatred. Who can stop these scum?
 
Here's today's puffpiece in the daily star.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/176113/EDL-boss-Tommy-Robinson-says-he-has-24-hour-guard-/

The rag itself carries a massive headline along the lines of WE WILL BEHEAD YOUR FAMILY.

This is probably true in the same way as last weeks assasination was true, or that the Luton turnout was gargantuan. Btw, the Star and Express have removed themselves from the auspices of the Press Complaints Commission (toothless as it generally is). They must want to be at even more liberty to lie and stir up hatred. Who can stop these scum?

two explicit quotes from robinson about working class people being let down by the three main parties
 
They must want to be at even more liberty to lie and stir up hatred. Who can stop these scum?

Editor Dawn Neesom is taking the lead in this, Desmond will look on and judge it in terms of sales alone. In recent years the Daily Star was showing increasing sales under her editorship, just about the only national newspaper to do so, but since last year they've dropped by 8% (iirc). So Neesom is under pressure to prove she's still got the magic touch.

Wonder if the Star will push it so far that newsagents get fed up and organise a boycott. I assume a fair proportion of outlets where the Star is sold are run by Asian shopkeepers, many of whom must be Muslim.

But would that be a wise tactic or not?
 
^ I did think about that the other day, they don't make much on papers so it's something that could happen.
 
I assume a fair proportion of outlets where the Star is sold are run by Asian shopkeepers, many of whom must be Muslim.

It has nothing to do with the shopkeepers. They are just there to make a profit.

As the Sun boycott in Liverpool after Hillsborough showed, it is the customers who drive this kind of boycott.

The shopkeepers only stopped ordering the Sun, when they got fed up of piles of unsold newspapers blocking their shops.

john x
 
Bob Pitt [Lord Robert the Younger] is very exercised about this. Andy Newman on his Socialist Unity Blogg wants to know if the Star wants to be associated with racists, drug dealers and criminals. Looks like the liberals are going to get going on this, Guardian letters etc
 
These unpleasant throwbacks are going to have a demo in my town (Exeter) this Saturday :mad:
The local EDL cretin says that this demo is being put on by a group called United People of Britain and is merely being supported by EDL. Why is this? Do EDL want plausible deniability or what?

Anyway, i'm well fucked off these shit heads are gonna be in my town :mad::mad::mad:
 
These unpleasant throwbacks are going to have a demo in my town (Exeter) this Saturday :mad:
The local EDL cretin says that this demo is being put on by a group called United People of Britain and is merely being supported by EDL. Why is this? Do EDL want plausible deniability or what?

Anyway, i'm well fucked off these shit heads are gonna be in my town :mad::mad::mad:

Roof top vantage point on route of march - piss bombs etc..
 
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