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Hang on a sec... Yaxley-Lennon confidently states "Every port in this country's owned by Saudi Arabia".

Living in Southampton, the ownership I'm most familiar with is ABP - Associated British Ports - the highly profitable former BTDB (British Transport Docks Board) that fell victim to Thatcher's lust for privatisation.

Since 2006 ABP has been owned by a consortium headed up by Goldman Sachs.
ABP now owned by ABP (Jersey) Ltd, which is made up of a consortium comprising Borealis, GIC, Goldman Sachs, and Prudential.
They've listed those partners in alphabetical order btw - GS spearheaded the purchase.

Am I missing something, and Goldman Sachs are controlled by Saudi? Or is Tommy just making stuff up? :confused:
 
my daughters in Sheffield city centre right now....

EDL have been to the cenotaph, many swilling tinnies along the way, laid what looked to be like one of those £3 bouquets you get from a petrol station - accompanied by the usual chants, quite a few raised arms (she wasn't close enough to see if they were nazi-saluting or not). In her 15 year old words on one of her texts..."lots of baldness, lots of beerguts, lots of crap tattoos, lots of missing teeth. Master-race my arse"

Peace Gardens have been a medley of samba bands, Indian dancers, people handing out flyers, as is Barkers Pool now the fash have gone. My daughter likens the vibe in the pEace Gardens to when the Bollywood Oscars events were there 5 years or so ago :)

Once the fash were escorted away from cenotaph, anti-EDL then assembled on city hall, effectively leaving only one exit for fash, ie to West Street (there's a weatherspoons there so would be happy with that).

Not sure on numbers, but she said EDL are outnumbered again - lots of uni students that decided not to go home yet, but also lots of locals (all creeds). My daughters buzzing about seeing certain schoolmates and teachers there - which I guess is as important to her as anything else, really :)
 
nevermind the ill fitting suits bollocks, if that is what they have seen and reported, so what
 
What is the ill-fitting suits bollocks? If you or corax can't see the relevance of those getting the worst of health resource allocation being prominent then fucking hell, what use is this form of anti-fascism? What analysis does it offer? What is the point of an anti-fascism where me and many people i know are pegged as fascists because of how we look - and because of aspects of how we look that are not really being under our own control? What about balding men who lost teeth fighting fascists?
 
yes
but what has that got to do with a 15 yrd old reporting what they have seen
who didn't even say they are anti facist

it is wrong and there was a confusing moment last week in Cardiff when a group of speedway fans with union and st george flags crossed our path, i had to quickly correct the assumption of a few of the younger ones there by pointing out they were innocent speedway fans

not all of us are big and hard enough to go talking to those wearing evf hoodies ya know

e2a and yes i do see the relevance
 
I hit 'show' :facepalm:

Lighten up FFS. It's sunny outside.

And anyway, it clearly wasn't just "lol, bald" - the point was made in her four last words. The girl's 15 years old - not bad going at that age IMO.
 
Which is why i didn't have the slightest go at her, but at you and your response - you picked out that particular bit as worthy of praise ffs.
 
yes
but what has that got to do with a 15 yrd old reporting what they have see
who didn't even say they are anti facist

it is wrong and there was a confusing moment last week in Cardiff when a group of speedway fans with union and st george flags crossed our path, i had to quickly correct the assumption of a few of the younger ones there by pointing out they were innocent speedway fans

not all of us are big and hard enough to go talking to those wearing evf hoodies ya know

e2a and yes i do see the relevance

Again, i was responding to corax's pathetic clapping of it, not the girls report.
 
This is all through the eye of a 15 year old schoolkid. She wanted to do her usual saturday afternoon thing today - go round a few shops with her mates, go somewhere nice to eat - neither she, they or me were going to stop her doing so just because a load of fascists were in town. I'm not there - though I am close to the city centre - I have another kid who has football training today, and as far as both me & him are concerned, no fash are going to stop him doing what he loves! Aside from a few pictures from facebook and twitter, the 15 year old is my eyes and ears on this today!

She's not seen much of this stuff before, so it will be a bit of a different perspective to those of us who've been on the front-line countless times
 
This is all through the eye of a 15 year old schoolkid. She wanted to do her usual saturday afternoon thing today - go round a few shops with her mates, go somewhere nice to eat - neither she, they or me were going to stop her doing so just because a load of fascists were in town. I'm not there - though I am close to the city centre - I have another kid who has football training today, and as far as both me & him are concerned, no fash are going to stop him doing what he loves! Aside from a few pictures from facebook and twitter, the 15 year old is my eyes and ears on this today!

She's not seen much of this stuff before, so it will be a bit of a different perspective to those of us who've been on the front-line countless times

Again, it wasn't your daughters report i was highlighting - it was corax's response to it.
 
Again, i was responding to corax's pathetic clapping of it, not the girls report.

fair enough but you are not going to stop it i'm afraid just as the fash calling all anti's communists/soap dodgers/hippie scum and fucking uaf, good on you for continually pointing it out and getting some people to see it
 
OK - a few bits more - have a friend who works close to West Street, but still a bit vague......

EDL ended up getting kettled on West Street outside a bar - yes there is a weatherspoons there! - not sure what started it off. A smaller group of EDL took refuge in the Harley bar and ended up stuck in the beer garden with the pub doors locked on them, obviously once everyone else clocked who they were . Uni students got wind of this, climbed the walls to the beer garden and penned them in from their side, bricks then started flying each way. Two or three injuries suggested?

Seems to have died down a lot now
 
Crappy wreath has been floating in pieces in the paddling pool next to the fountain for most of the afternoon!
 
EDL have been to the cenotaph, many swilling tinnies along the way, laid what looked to be like one of those £3 bouquets you get from a petrol station - accompanied by the usual chants, quite a few raised arms (she wasn't close enough to see if they were nazi-saluting or not). In her 15 year old words on one of her texts..."lots of baldness, lots of beerguts, lots of crap tattoos, lots of missing teeth. Master-race my arse"

Fucking lol :D

You done a good job there by the sounds of it legz.

I was there too. I've got missing teeth, a bit of a beer gut and not a great deal of hair. Wish someone had fucking told me I was on the wrong demo.
 
Collins on socialist unity is deleting all posts from anyone who tries to say both EDL and Jihadis must be challenged, so much for free speech
 
If only we could all be massing against the government and preventing them flushing the NHS down the bog and starving out the unemployed, rather than having to fight numbskulls on the street.

It's why they're given an easy ride by police & media, isn't it? Not a CT to think this is a very convenient diversion of the left. Cunts.
 
It's why they're given an easy ride by police & media, isn't it? Not a CT to think this is a very convenient diversion of the left. Cunts.


I have suspected this for a long while, also factor in the desirability for the government of a lot of the people who are facing the brunt of the cuts blaming their neighbours for their rapidly decreasing quality of life.
 
I bet she hates that picture now, served her time and probably has nothing to do with radical politics now.


trees, it dont follow. i was on the front page of the local paper with a comrade yonks back fighting with plod over a tory twat visitor. both of us still at it. bumped into him at EDL in manchester lurking round the periphery clearly up to 'no good!'
 
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