Comments

Comment 1 | From: Jon Ireland | Date: 22 September 2010, 22:58

Why are these thugs protected by the police.

Comment 2 | From: Chris Iliffe | Date: 22 September 2010, 23:10

Because the police are thugs, too?

Comment 3 | From: Spud | Date: 23 September 2010, 00:12

The EDL are what the Nazis were in the 1920s. They must be stopped!

Comment 4 | From: Neil Scott | Date: 23 September 2010, 07:44

These EDL and in scotland SDL (is there a welsh brand?) are dispicable. This is surely something the left can come together to sort out. Well done the citizens of Glasgow who ousted. the Nazis at the weekend.

Comment 5 | From: Englishman In New Shoes | Date: 23 September 2010, 11:01

Our point exactly, using violence on meetings of opposition political organisations was what the National Socialists used to do in Germany in the 1930s. Yes, the EDL are doing what comes naturally to them and I hope that the Leicester Mercury picks up on this story.

Comment 6 | From: Paul | Date: 23 September 2010, 23:33

EDL attacks on Left Wing meetings are becoming more violent and frequent. This reminds me of the early eighties when groups like the BM and NF would attack meetings.

Comment 7 | From: Steve | Date: 24 September 2010, 10:52

I'll bet 90% of their fathers and grand fathers were Socialists. However, in the case of the SWP, I say, the enemy of the enemy is not always your friend!

Comment 8 | From: Sarah Cox | Date: 24 September 2010, 12:54

So do you still think it's wrong to organise opposition to the EDL? Do you still think we shoud allow them to walk all over us and worse still attack and intimidate members of ethnic and religious minorities, relying only on the forces of the state to contain them?

Comment 9 | From: Sinead | Date: 1 October 2010, 12:13

Sarah, I don't think anyone at HOPE not hate ever considered it wrong to organise opposition to the EDL. In fact opposing the EDL is one of Hnh's main activities these days. The form that opposition takes has to be tailored to the specific event/community/locality that the EDL are attacking, and must take into account the feelings of local people who will be the ones left to pick up the pieces after any event occurs. In Bradford we weren't "relying only on the forces of the state to contain them", but we did work very hard to ensure that the "forces of the state" actually did what they are supposed to do i.e. protect ordinary decent citizens.

Comment 10 | From: Nigel Bulley | Date: 16 December 2010, 00:28

Good some EDL Nazi thugs have been seen by the police for what they are.

Comment 11 | From: Rahul Gandhi | Date: 14 September 2011, 16:17

Ya, it's about perception. Regards Rahul Gandhi http://pressbrief.blog.co.uk/

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