A Bad Week fo the Bad Guys!

Over the last seven days the runts of the litter of British fascism have been on the march again with limited success. On Saturday, September 7th the English Defence League (EDL) attempted to stage a protest against Islamofacism in Birmingham. After assembling in a pub on Broad street the EDL quickly gave up on any idea of staging a proper protest and instead went on a drunken wander around the city centre. By 13:30 they came into contact with around 20 Unite Against Fascism (UAF) counter demonstrators and fights broke out forcing the 80 or so EDL to scatter. Over the next two hours news of the clashes spread and around 800 local, Birmingham residents turned up to join in. This forced the EDL to seek refuge in a pub which was quickly cordoned off by the police. At around 15:30 the police were forced to commandeer two double Decker buses in order to evacuate the EDL from the city for their own safety. As the EDL were being driven away they decided to smash up the buses and throw the seats at passers by leading to all 80 of them getting arrested bringing the total number of arrests for the day to 90.

On Friday a group calling itself Stop the Islamification Of Europe (SIOE) decided that it would be a really clever idea to stage a protest against Islam outside London's largest Mosque in Harrow on September 11th, during Ramadan just after Friday prayers. Despite repeated offers from the Mosque to sit down and discuss their concerns peacefully the SIOE, which is little more then one man and his blog, decided to press ahead with their highly offensive demonstration. By 17:00 they'd assembled a massive 20 people including members of the EDL which was met by a 1000 strong counter demonstration called by Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and made up of young Muslim men from the Mosque alongside local residents of every creed and colour. At around 17:30 the SIOE group started goading the UAF group trying to start a fight. They got one when the UAF group charged them forcing the SIOE to retreat behind the police lines. By 18:15 the SIOE had been evacuated and were escorted from the scene by the police again for their own safety. Over the next 45 minutes or so the pumped up crowd had some minor scuffles with the police unaware that the SIOE had already left the area. By 20:00 it was all over as people melted away from the riot that never was leaving ten people arrested including the leader of SIOE Stephan (bullied at school) Gash on a charge of behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace.

All in all it's been a pretty humiliating week for the British far right that's left them looking like they've had their backs broken. The EDL have got a number of demonstrations planned over the next couple of months, including one on tomorrow (13/9), but I doubt there will be much of a turnout especially as the Labour government seem to be getting very vocal in their opposition now the hard work's been done.