At the beginning of the month Ted Jeory reported:
After leading the campaign to ban the EDL marching through Tower Hamlets, the East End’s Labour politicians have now called for counter demonstrations to be called off
The Home Secretary banned the EDL from marching in Tower Hamlets after a successful local campaign, led by Labour, including delivering a 25,000 strong petition to the Metropolitan Police and Cllr Joshua Peck, Rushanara Ali and Jim Fitzpatrick MP’s and John Biggs AM writing to her to personally to ask for an intervention.
UAF, a Socialist Workers Party front group, had no intention of calling off their demonstration, wedded as they are to violent street fighting.
EDLRaw is a pro-EDL Youtube channel, which provided the video of Tommy Robinson dressed as a Rabbi on yesterday’s cross post. Today it has two other videos up. In one, a woman EDL supporter is pulled off a bus which, according to the BBC, had broken down.
The second video appears to have been made by two “anti fascists” called “Ben and Anthony”. They laugh as they recount how a woman EDL supporter was beaten up. I suspect it is the same incident.
Apparently, what makes it particularly funny that this woman is beaten up is that she is ugly. As the “anti fascists” put it:
“Never hit a woman – but DO kick a dog”
This clip has been playing in my mind all night. I find it horrifying.
Thanks EDL. Thanks UAF.
Alec Macph adds: This attempt to remain true to a shibboleth of opposing violence against women, whilst determined that certain groups from the distaff side have renounced expectation of this due to their political allegiance, puts me in mind of the thoughts from commenter Larsf during a thread about another silly overgrown child’s besotted delight in street violence:
Here in Norway we have a little experience in what words like wanting to “shoot” people can mean. There was a rightwing nut; fed by certain blogs etc, that went from reading and thinking such things, to doing things; awful things; like shooting people…
There is little difference between parts of the far left, and the far right. They both share a certain wish for violence. Words are not just words, they do have a meaning! […]
Cockweasels, the lot of them.
