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Far-right rally passes off with 15 arrests
Date published: 04 March 2013
POLICE have praised the people of Greater Manchester after a demonstration in the city centre led to just 15 arrests.
Five people have been charged following the organised event which was attended by 700 English Defence League members and 350 protesters from opposing organisations.
An operation was put in place by Greater Manchester Police and Manchester City Council in the lead up to Saturday’s demonstration in Albert Square. The counter-demonstrators met at Piccadilly Gardens and walked up to Albert Square.
Chief Superintendent John O’Hare said: “It was always going to be a challenging operation with tensions running high between two groups of people who are vehemently opposed to each other. There have been 15 arrests and out of a thousand protesters it is not uncommon for an event of this size.”
Councillor Bernard Priest, Manchester City Council’s executive member for neighbourhood services, said: “It is to the credit of both Greater Manchester Police and Manchester’s residents that the rally passed without serious incident.”
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Comments
Obviously the article refers to the United Associaton of Fascists, a group which supports & promotes the murder of Jews & gays, and the belief that one people are superior to others.
The EDL are opposed to such things and are made up from people from all ethnic backgrounds, it cannot be them who are referred to as 'far right'
Having read the first two posts in the thread, I'm inclined to quote Shakespeare, "The lady doth protest too much"
Perhaps the EDL should pay the cost of policing their marches, which on average cost £850,000 of taxpayers money
The cost of the marches is only high because the ultra left wing facist UAF "Unite against facism" always chose to protest about the EDL on the same day in the same place. Just as many looneys amongst them but nowhere near as much negative media coverage, if any.
JMTS@04 I wasn't making a protest but just an observation. There are those who share views that are very similar to the Nazis yet don't get called far right. I am just highlighting the hypocrisy that is obvious to me.
Edl are scums they waste police time waste tax payers money.. most of the edl are on benefits they got nothing better to do apart from attend protests..
Flake, I think it is the EDL that article is referring to as right wing. Also I'm a little confused by your post. I'm not quite sure who the United Association of Fascists are, do you mean United Against Fascism as being the opposing group? If so they certainly are not far-right and as far as I remember I can't recall them promoting the murder of Jews and homosexuals or believing that one people are superior to others. I'm happy to be corrected if you have any further info though.
it's a pity the law doesn't crack down as hard on radical muslim demonstrations
If we didn't have so many foreigners in this country leeching from us & bleeding this country dry then organizations like the EDL would never have existed, the government has done nothing to protect this country this country is now over populated this is why there is no jobs & no hope & this once great country is slowly being thrown to the dogs.
From the evidence on the TV and on the streets I doubt if many of them know their left from their right to be honest.
©Ernie. Can you prove your point or is it just your prejudice showing?
The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists.
Winston Churchill (attrib)
Well Molly the frog, how much should Labour be billed for the 7 wars they started - most of them against Moslems? How much for Mass Immigration, or Wrecking the Economy?
Ironmike the people the UAF claim to be 'protecting' hold those views therefore the UAF must be pretty comfortable with them.
It might be said the Nazis were far left, most of their policies were and the name 'socialist' is a bit of a giveaway!
@ironmike. I think the first two posts were being ironic or satirical. If you want an explanation of what they were saying then read ernie's post. They all say the same thing.
Saddleworths finest, well said, very brave.
The EDL are a drain on police resources which ordinary taxpayers have to pay towards. Therefore it's very strange how some people on these boards are quick to accuse the council of wasting money, but yet support a group of thugs who waste police time and taxpayers hard earned cash
Well said mollythefrog...
Mollythefrog......are you saying that all marches should be banned or just the EDL? Either stance can be considered to be anti free speech and the beginning of the end of democracy and a tactic used by hitler in the 1930s. Are you also saying that recent marches through London by the teaching unions, Occupy London and other left wing protest groups paid for the police presence? Methinks your argument is somewhat one sided and left leaning!!!
Flake - I would love to know what the seven wars "started" by Labour are? You seem to have missed off the expensive interventions by this Government in Libya plus recent excursions in Mali. You would think there was enough going on fighting radical Muslims in the war on terror without starting on the lesser known "Moslems" as well....
Have Your Say
The Nazis were far right and oppressed jews democracy, rights for women, rights for gay and black people, trade unions and free speech.
Do the EDL support similar policies? Not as far as I can see. They have jewish, black and female members.
I can think of other groups that oppose rights for jews, women and free speech for example and don't get called far right.
Why is that?
By KPLees @ 04/03/2013 13:00:21