Stand Up To Racism had organised dozens of protests around the country, in places including Leicester, Oxford, Southampton, Yeovil, Colchester, Nottingham, Hull and Norwich.
….that this is a Socialist Workers Party front again?
More than 3,000 protesters, backed by drummers, shouted slogans and held banners aloft in front of the party’s base in the centre of the capital. Half a dozen police officers stood guard, with reinforcements stationed nearby.
Addressing the crowd, Samira Ali, the national organiser of Stand Up To Racism, said: “We are standing here today to send a message to Nigel Farage and Reform UK. We think he is fanning the flames of bigotry and Islamophobia.
“We are drawing a line in the sand. There will be no more fascists on the street. Anti-racists are the majority.”
3k as against 4 million votes, eh?
” There will be no more fascists on the street. Anti-racists are the majority.”
Sounds like a pretty clear threat to me.
This is the myth of an organised far right writ large.
Possibly they could mobilise a couple of hundred. The people arrested so far have been locaks involved in the disturbances.
The Tankies can put a few thousand out, all armed with neatly printed banners at a moments notice. It has always been like that and I knew them back in the 1980s. There aren’t that many SWPers but they can all be relied upon to turn up.
The Telegraph seems to be annoying a lot of what is left of its readership, jusdging by the comments sections.
They were out in small numbers at the Pier Head in Liverpool yesterday waving their SWP placards and a few Palestine flags, shouting their slogans and accusing random sight seers and passers by, who weren’t taking part, of being racist far right bigots. As if you could find anyone far right in Liverpool!
’“We are drawing a line in the sand. There will be no more fascists on the street.’
Bloody hell, what are going to do with no more beat bobbies and PCSOs?
@Ottokring: ’The people arrested so far have been locaks involved in the disturbances’
Don’t need to be involved any more, just need to be an observer!
Calling your political opponents ‘Fascists’ or ‘Nazis’ is simply a way of justifying violence against them.
Schools to wage war on ‘putrid’ fake news in anti-extremism crackdown
Pupils will be taught to spot conspiracy theories in curriculum revamp after riots sweep UK
Just watch the bbc kiddos, or else read the telegraph (where this article came from).
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/10/schools-wage-war-on-putrid-fake-news-in-wake-of-riots/
JuliaM
When I used to watch Wimbledon FC at Plough Lane, I was a bystander and witness to crimes against football every week.
I feel so ashamed, I shall hand myself in …
OK, this is a speculation, not an accusation, an inflammation or even an alsatian.
There isn’t much of an organised far right. What there is has been penetrated ‘man who was thursday’ style by anti-terror units desperate to justify their existence. That much is not wildly speculative.
WHAT IF the rioters who were at the front and were arrested as far-right-thugs were in fact those undercover officers. Getting caught after not actually hurting anybody and then pleading guilty. Providing an excellent example for the new kangaroo courts to provide instant ‘justice’ so that damn idiot evil bastard to parade in front of us. They probably walked out of the back door of the court. When they return to activism they’ll have much cred. Bonus all round. Except for the citizens, but WGAF about them?
It’s interesting that the crowd is composed exclusively of white people as far as I can tell and the folk wearing yellow tabards are presumably marshalling this spontaneous outburst.
Rhoda
Shades of the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping “plot” where there were almost certainly more FBI plants than actual right-wing nutters. See also Ray Ebbs.
P.s. Chesterton’s philosophical policemen were unquestionably well motivated. I very much doubt that is the case here.
Rhoda, do you really think that sort of cunning plan is within the capabilities of this government?
Don’t need to be involved any more, just need to be an observer!
They ran out of actual rioters pretty quickly, so how else can they pretend there is a significant ‘far right’ threat?
There isn’t much of an organised far right. What there is has been penetrated ‘man who was thursday’ style by anti-terror units desperate to justify their existence.
Penetrated? More like fabricated. One of the best reasons for not joining a ‘shadowy far right group’ is that it would involve hanging out with Plod.
Please. Will you people on the right stop sneering & learn. A clue. The left are the ones winning.
Julia, I did write ‘what if’. However, it could have happened without a cunning plan but just part of the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ philosophy.
Firstly, there has long been a claim of a real far-right threat as a way to downrank the real threat from you know who. The security folks always try to penetrate any group they can identify.
Secondly, when the group turns out to be a bunch of cycle-clip wearing seventeen year olds who live with their mum, what’s a mole to do? Write it up as way more serious and keep taking the money, of course.
Third, a senior officer remembers ‘We’ve got a man in that Southport group, pretty serious threat they seem to be, we’ll activate him’,
Fourth, they call on the agent to stir things up. He tries to get the 17-y-o’s and maybe he can, but he has to go to the riot himself to justify possibly years of taking undercover money.
Fifth step, and the only one that requires a tactic, he has to get arrested, but as explained, that’s a bonus.
3k as against 4 million votes, eh?
To be fair to Muslim bigots, it’s difficult to count big numbers when both your parents were related to each other before marriage.
but… but… they stopped teaching thinking in schools because too many kids were able to conclude that those in power were morons.
Interesting that the Regime is sending its semi-retarded pets after Reform, and not their supposed opposition, the Tories.
The Regime understands that Reform is the only representation white Englishmen have.
They don’t like us having representation.
Rhoda – WHAT IF the rioters who were at the front and were arrested as far-right-thugs were in fact those undercover officers. Getting caught after not actually hurting anybody and then pleading guilty.
This is what happened at the January 6th “insurrection” in America when the feds seeded a peaceful crowd of annoyed Baby Boomers with undercover policemen and other agents provocateur in order to cause a lethal riot they could blame on Trump.
If you remember, after the feds unlocked the Capitol building and herded a bunch of civilians inside, hoping they’d murder a couple of senators, nothing much happened. People milled around taking selfies until they were arrested for “trying to overthrow the United States government”. The Regime just stuck to its original script, which is why the official messaging was so insanely disproportionate to any “threat” these people posed. But there were undercover cops originally charged and then quietly released.
Reform is the only representation white Englishmen have.
I am not sure Reform’s Chairman, Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf, would agree with you, Steve.
Theo – Ooh, I don’t care.
“WHAT IF the rioters who were at the front and were arrested as far-right-thugs were in fact those undercover officers. “
Watch out for the exploding ostriches!
“The Left” is a protest on perpetual standby, looking for the next suitable ‘cause’.
Reform is the only representation that remains for the British way of life. You don’t have to be white, English or male to treasure that. Hence the attraction of the party to Mr Yousuf.
Paul – I would happily vote for a black or Muslim dude who is on our side. They’re worth a dozen Boris Johnsons or any of the other muppets.
I was in Hastings yesterday and there was a ‘placard workshop’ in an unused shop, and a demo starting outside the shopping center. I did wonder who paid for the use of the shop (maybe the center management ‘donated’ it?), and how quickly it had been arranged.
@Andy
I’m not surprised you round up a demo in Hastings. I spent some time there some years back renovating one of those gigantic houses we bought had been turned into bedsits. There seemed to be nothing whatsoever to do there. Some scruffy pubs & caffs sell all day breakfasts. A ghastly disco down of the front with carpets stuck to your feet seemed to be full of queers. As for the inhabitants, they mostly appeared to be assorted varieties of dossers.
I’m never sure or not whether Margate’s worse. Margate certainly has more petshops. I presume they also sell the string to put the dogs on & the disposable plastic cups. Hastings & Margate seem to be about even on second hand furniture shops, though.