You know, I thought the message of Cable Street was pretty clear. Fascists will be strung up by their own entrails, basically. Unfortunantly the EDL shows once again they have the brains of a concussed clam and happily charge in with 200 or so of their overweight, thick skulled and thin haired followers into Walthamstow.
Now, for the uninitiated. I live in Walthamstow. It is nice. It's one of those places where you can point and say, 'See, multiculturalism can work!' It's well intergrated and mixed. there are people from every corner of the globe and we rub along quite comfortably. There are people from Africa, Middle East, Easten Europe, and so on, as well as a substantial community of long-time Londoners. Oh, and it's next door to one of the oldest Jewish areas in London.
And the EDL chose to march here.
The f***ing morons.
4,000 people turned out to do a Cable Street on their arses and the whole things broke down before it even started. The EDL were forced off the official route by a hoard of sit-down protesters, and forced into the narrow backstreets where they were pelted with bottles, tiles and flowerpots. Most of them went home at that point, while a handful made it to the rallying point. It's was a blazing failure and a triumph for the local community. It was a black eye for the moronic EDL and a kick in the pants for modern fascism.
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