News round up: EDL, UAF and Asian Gangs in Harrow | Jack Straw to go on QT | Further Welsh fury at BNP | UK Unemployment to worsen

EDL, UAF and Asian Gangs in Harrow

English Defence League thug

EDL thugs were caught shouting, "We hate Paki's more than you!"

Friday saw more more violence break out between the violent ultra-nationalist English Defence League, Unite Against Fascism and gangs of Asian youths, outside Harrow Central Mosque.

In scenes reminiscent from the 1970s, EDL skinheads raised Nazi salutes and chanted racist slogans such as “I hate Pakis more than you”.

A worrying development is the news that the EDL want to enlist football fans for a Mussolini “March on Rome”-style event. (On the basis , according to insiders, that “you need an army for a war”.)

The EDL are a rag-tag bunch of racists and football hooligans. UAF, however, should know better. After previous clashes we have said that UAF must restrain themselves more as their actions are counterproductive and actually heighten tensions.

It would appear that senior members of the Muslim community also agree. On Friday the General Secretary of Harrow Central Mosque expressed his anger at UAF for holding a counter protest (against the advice of the police) outside the mosque.

Violence and provacative behaviour will not help solve the problems of social cohesion in Britain. Dialogue, serious attempts at addressing alienated voter’s concerns and undistracted police work, however, will.  

See Sky news report from Friday (note Martin Smith from UAF seen clearly walking alongside trouble causers – 35″)

“English Defence League: chaotic alliance stirs up trouble on the streets” – The Guardian

Jack Straw to appear on QT against Griffin

Gordon Brown is considering putting Jack Starw up against Nick Griffin MEP on Question Time.

Some commentators feel there is a danger that Griffin may throw back at Straw the comments he made about Islamic veils in 2006.

Straw described them as a “visible statement of separation and difference” and called on women to cease wearing them. This allegedly led to ugly instances of yobs pulling veils off Muslim women in streets.

Gordon Brown wants Jack Straw to take on BNP on Question Time – Daily Telegraph.

Further Welsh fury at BNP 

THE BNP has been accused of hijacking the legend of Owain Glyndr by printing T-shirts bearing the image of the historic Welsh figure.

The image used on the BNP T-shirts is taken from a statue of Owain Glyndr on a horse that was presented to the people of Corwen, Denbighshire, the town where Glyndr was born.

Sculptor Colin Spofforth, who spent four years creating the statue, said: “I certainly did not give any permission for it to be used and I would never have done.”

Mr Spofforth added: “Whoever has done this obviously does not know their Welsh history or what Owain Glyndr was all about.

The Rev Geraint ap Iorwerth, of St Peter ad Vincula Church in Pennal, where a bronze statue of Glyndr stands in the Princes’ Memorial Garden, said: “Owain Glyndr would be turning in his grave if he knew the BNP were using him as one of their heroes”.

BNP accused of hijacking Owian Glyndwr – Wales Online

UK unemployment to worsen

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development warns there is a “distinct possibility” that weak economic growth and fears over a double-dip recession will lead to further redundancies in the coming years.

The CIPD says despite the UK falling into the worst recession since the Second World War, job cuts have not been as bad as in the 1980s or 1990s.

The Institute warns that unemployment could stay at 3.5 million for over a decade.

According to the US Department for Homeland Security, high unemployment has the potential to lead to alienation and statistically increases an individual’s susceptability to accept extremist ideas. The report cites a 2007 study from the German Institute for Economic Research, which says there is a strong association between a parent’s unemployment status and the formation of neo-fascist beliefs in children – specifically racism and xenophobia.

While the stock market and housing market may be coming out of the recession, hard working families are still suffering from the disastrous effects of the credit crisis on Britain’s heartland manufacturing and business support industries. As the head of the TUC has said today, the UK will only be fully out of recession when unemployment falls. So far, we believe that more needs to be done to tackle UK unemployment and re-tool our workforce.

“Unemployment could reach 3.5m and remain high for a decade, CIPD warns” – Daily Telegraph

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11 Responses to “News round up: EDL, UAF and Asian Gangs in Harrow | Jack Straw to go on QT | Further Welsh fury at BNP | UK Unemployment to worsen”

  1. fellist says:

    Owain fought for a Wales ruled by the Welsh ethny in their own interests: arguably the BNP do the same although their strategy is to fight for these things through the British composite nation.

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    Jack Straw, eh — the notable anti-English racist. How come the BNP’s presence on the show is controversial but not his? The easiest way for the BNP to legitimise their movement when one of these corrupt establishment pols is rolled in front of ‘em is to ask him if he thinks Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state – ask if Gandhi was right that ‘India belongs to the Indians’ – ask him if African and Asian peoples had the right to boot the British out of their countries last century – ask him if he respects the principles of the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples … when he answers “yes, yes, yes, yes” — he the must explain his racist double standards toward peoples that happen to be White. And that’s not easy.

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  2. warichunt says:

    i asked bnp member’s when was the last time the bnp did any marching,the answer was NEVER so how can the bnp be blamed for so many riot’s if they have never demonstrated in any way shape or form,the press,the uaf,searchlight,all say it’s the bnp causing these riot’s in our street’s ,or are they being scape goated by the establishment ,i know david cameron is a financial backer of the uaf along with another 140 mp’s,and the union’s sponsor the uaf and are even going to pay the expences of the very aggressive group of thug’s to get to and from the venue’s ,its my view that the uaf and co are causing the riot’s,and not the bnp

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  3. Afewbravemen says:

    Depends on how you phrase, I consider the BNP representing those ordinary people who live in Britain. Doesn’t matter colour, religion or alot else it is too many people in a small area, money running out and more people arriving.

    The current bunch of politicians do nothing except feather their own nests at everybody elses expense and do not care who gets hurt in the process either.
    It is interesting the background of Cameron as it comes too light, he is an economist he knows what the problem is. It does not suit him to fix it no matter what he says, ditto for Labour.

    Then you get those who protest, but will not form political groups and get representation through an elected official. e.g. UAF, EDL even the TUC. Note TUC stabbed the workers in the back general strike 1926 so nothing new for them. Much of the violence at the moment is media generated to cast all nationalists in a bad light, BNP or any other as it would be LibLabCon out and upsets the status quo.

    Then the EU, there seems too be no outcry against issues being passed harmful to Britain, you can be Wales, Scotland or England it doesn’t matter …
    this island if you wish. Wales and Scotland say it’s okay it is only England, watch the surplus of things cross over the border.

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  4. Sam Pauli says:

    isnt great the english whinging bout being victims..you reap what you sow

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  5. Will Pettit says:

    Shut your mouth Sam Pauli. The public were never asked if they wanted 3million muslim’s and were just told to accept it. Some people question the absurdity of an open-door policy, disagree with it, then stick up for what our grandfathers fought for 70 years ago. Some people despise champagne socialists.

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  6. Paul says:

    Hi there,

    Just want to make people aware that there are plenty of skinheads who are opposed to the EDL – The word “skinhead” always seems to conjure up images of racist thugs targetting anyone they don’t like the look of – the truth is very very different. Please do some research before branding skinheads as racists. Those boneheads might dress like us, but we distance ourselves from them as much as we can.

    Check out the new facebook group … Skinheads against the EDL

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    good post mate,antifa hooligans

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