EDL/UAF MARCHES: A message from Leicester Mayor, Peter Soulsby

“I wear my St George brooch every day.As I do my British Legion brooch.Born English,Die English.{I emphathise English as a lot of people do not want to be part of Great Britain.so they can have devolution,own govenment,whatever}.
The silly thing for the Every Day Loosers to do is parade the flag of St George as an emblem to justify/identify their identity.He was a Roman who went to Turkey to fight.Never came to England.As for Useless And Foolish..can they March in Saudi for womens rights,even to drive a car,or demonstrate for the right of women not to be cir***sized here.Maybe a stroll around Syria or at least outside the Syrian Embasst in London.How would they allow the police to maimtain order?"you a Sunni?go that way"."You a Christian?that way""Oh,Greek Orthodox!Not sure""Aahh,Shiite!Just over there".........
IF there is only one thing to be learned from Saturday it is WE want a great Police force in this City.Not self serving councillors who want money in their pockets at the expence of the Police and services.”

“to answer Eastonian's question: I wonder if the 'UAF' decided to hold their own march/demonstration on some day in the future would the 'EDL' turn up on the same day purely for confrontational reasons?

Probably yes - LUAF with Love Music Hate Racism held an outdoor music event at Market Corner in October 2010. Members of the local EDL division were there and LUAF were forced to move their stall due to the intimidation received from the group who were drinking outside Lloyds pub.

They still continued to harrass and intimidate members of the LUAF who were doing nothing other than collecting signatures on a petition and also approached the stall taking posters and leaflets and ripping them up or throwing them on the floor and stamping on them. A member of the group then assaulted one the the LUAF activists (who 'coincidentally' was a muslim - the attacker was arrested and charged).

The EDL stands for fighting Islamic Extrmism? I think not.”

“Rachel_Leics,
The problem is that they don't just march...Youtube is littered with examples of them Seig Heilling and wearing Nazi regalia, despite their attempts at appearing 'normal'. Look what they did in Leicester last time. It was Adolph Hitler himself that said the opposition could haves snuffed him out early. Because they didn't, millions lost their lives and therefore 'democracy' for them was lost.
Leicester is one of my favourite cities, not least for it diversity. I'm white working class and don't feel put out by other cultures as the millionaire financiers of the EDL clearly do. White workers have always been mixed with immigrants and now my kids are mixed and all. The EDL are fascist and not some band of disgruntled unemployed innocents...”

“Eastonian why do you ask this ?
("I wonder if the 'UAF' decided to hold their own march/demonstration on some day in the future would the 'EDL' turn up on the same day purely for confrontational reasons?) why would thay want to do that ?”

“People died in wars to keep their country and the rights of the country davidh1967, the EDL have the free right to march if they wish to. The feel that their country is not their own anymore and have the right to march, regardless if they are right or wrong. x”

“"Both my parents fought Nazis in WW2 and must be turning in their graves at what the EDL is allowed to do. The Mayor is quite wrong for allowing them in and also wrong for equating the 2 sides. My father wasn't a nazi for fighting them!!"

Try looking up "SS Hansar" on google, see who the Nazi enemy was.”

“One day you may wake up.”

“The Mercury were sharp earlier on in the week when they contrasted what the EDL did to Leicester (shop-smashing and terrorising people in restaurants) with those of the UAF demonstration (which they described as peaceful). Both my parents fought Nazis in WW2 and must be turning in their graves at what the EDL is allowed to do. The Mayor is quite wrong for allowing them in and also wrong for equating the 2 sides. My father wasn't a nazi for fighting them!!”

“Someone needs to remind Peter Soulsby that only one of today's marches consisted of outsiders bussed in. Leicester UAF draws its support from Leicester, including several branches of Soulsby's own party - he shouldn't be buying into the EDL's "they are just as bad as us" line. Local people are revolted by neo-nazis.”

“"We must not do anything that will allow them to pull our communities apart or have any kind of lasting impact."
No need to worry about the marchers doing that SPS-you and your gov't did that for 13 years!
".....with something for everyone."
And there is the first blatant lie of the day from SPS!
'Eastonian' - reversed it-nice, very good question indeed!”