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I've just got back from watching the edl visit Exeter. There was an anti-edl march which attracted about 1000 - pretty good for down here and more than the organisers were expecting, great atmosphere and very upbeat. The edl managed to get about 200 out, weren't allowed down the high street, but instead had a very short march down a back street from the grotty pub where they assembled to be kettled in the park for a couple of hours. Loads of police and the edl took a couple of nickings that I saw.
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I've just got back from watching the edl visit Exeter. There was an anti-edl march which attracted about 1000 - pretty good for down here and more than the organisers were expecting, great atmosphere and very upbeat. The edl managed to get about 200 out, weren't allowed down the high street, but instead had a very short march down a back street from the grotty pub where they assembled to be kettled in the park for a couple of hours. Loads of police and the edl took a couple of nickings that I saw.
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Was that you up there they were chanting at? I was just out of shot to the left. They were a sorry lot.

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I was chatting to an Exeter couple stood opposite watching but not going in who claimed to be regulars in the pub and said it normally had a few of them in. Dunno how true that is.

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You can see the back and the front of their march in this one I took.

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Small...

Welcome to your kettle, please turn left. And they did after some gentle shoving from their own stewards.

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Didn't like us chanting at them as they left for their bus.

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i wasn't there but the regional edl demo in shotton colliery is reported as 150 - that's about half what they had last year.

revised figures after watching video of the shotton colliery march - i stopped counting at 300.
anti-fascists turn out was about 30.
 
part way through this video a couple of young punk kids giving them some stick, pretty funny turns to wtf when edl burka boy turns up :D:facepalm::D
Fair dues to them, I was part of the little group winding them up behind those horses, but we were behind the horses :)
 
The woman holding one end of the Dartford Division banner looks like she is South East Asian. I've seen that some of them go in for mail order brides, but isn't this domestic abuse? :confused:
 
That SEA women are all here as bought brides and have no political content of their own. Ok, it a joke, a failing one to make here and about this, but plenty of SEA women have dodgy experience with people operating under the islam banner.
 
I didn't say that all SEA women are bought brides. I have worked with lots of them, and I don't think that any of them would go on an EDL march, and I've never seen a picture of one on an EDL march before. But I do recall seeing reports of one or two EDL members having mail order brides.
OK probably not a valid assumption though.
 
I was in a service station when a bunch of EDL turned up once, and one of them did seam to have a much younger Asian women with them. While we can't know anything for certain it did look dodgy as fuck and rather unpleasant. She didn't seem very happy was was fast following him around.
 
Has anybody heard of something planned in Far East London today? i.e. just south of the Thames Barrier. I was walking around the area this morning and noticed several dozen people with England flags drinking outside a pub at 11ish - and that area is really not heavily populated. Then seeing a bunch of police vans and hearing a really noisy helicopter (low enough to make it actually hard to talk to people).

I asked a copper on the other side of the street what was going on and he said there was going to be a march. "Oh, some sort of EDL thing?" I said. He replied it was a similar group but "more respectful, well let's hope so" and rolled his eyes.

Odd place to march tbh. I didn't hang about waiting for them to stop drinking and leave.
 
part way through this video a couple of young punk kids giving them some stick, pretty funny turns to wtf when edl burka boy turns up :D:facepalm::D



Is it the copper whose back you see at 2:35 the one saying something along the lines of:

"...what's going to happen to Gloucester, mate... [inaudible] ...I'd be on the streets same as you are..."
 
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