Britain must not journey back to the past on May 6th

There has been much negative campaigning in the British General Election and playing the blame game on the past. Politics is a bit like running a restaurant – because people can cook their one dish they then think they can run their own place. However as many have found out reality is a harsh teacher.

The contrast between this global recession and the early Nineties is graphic. Then mortgages were at 14.6% and the then Chancellor, the lamentable Norman Lamont said unemployment was a “price well worth paying.” His “special advisor” was one David Cameron who was with him when he led the country into the unmitigated disaster of Black Wednesday.


The last time the Stockbroker's son got near the economy

The Conservatives are now headed by a troika of Old Etonians, Dave Cameron, Gideon Osborne & Boris Johnson, and with their MP’s being 64% the product of private schools The Tory Boys and Gals want to play Tuck Shop with the country again. This is no time to let amateurs born with silver spoons learn on the job while looking after their “own kind” and playing PR lip service to a “Big Society” – at the back of it all are the Thatcherites who still believe there is no such thing as Society!



Even Sir Reginald Sheffield’s photogenic daughter does not make the Tories an electable government. We all remember the dark days under Thatcher. In fact, we remember them every day - because years later, so many hard-working British families are still trying to recover from the days of Tory control. We cannot afford to let history repeat itself, and to allow David Cameron to destroy the great progress we've made. Let us not forget the loss of homes, the unemployment, the division, the destruction of the NHS and Education, the Poll Tax and the arrogance towards the “little people” – You know the ones who actually pay tax? Vote to Slam Cam!


Kathryn White

I’m supporting Kathryn White as Labour candidate for Aylesbury. She'll make an excellent MP and shake up the smug Conservative / Lib Dem cartel locally.

http://www.kathrynwhite.co.uk

She is a local person who was born and bred in Aylesbury and wants the best for the constituency. She is standing to represent local people from her home area and to give a voice to the majority who are sick of being ignored by the local Tory and Lib Dem cartel.



Whether it is early years’ education, healthcare, social housing or pensioner support, the work Labour has done in the past 13 years has helped make our country a better place. That is the Britain we’ve been building together - the change we see all around us.



Together we have introduced the National Minimum Wage and achieved the shortest waiting times since NHS records began, brought in the first ever legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions and now have over 44,000 more doctors and 89,000 more nurses than in 1997. This is just some of what Labour has been able to achieve so far with your support but there is more to do. Only one party in this election has the moral purpose to deliver for ordinary people – The Party which was set up to protect honest people who rely on their Labour, not the spivs, not the toffs with their sense of entitlement, not those who live off the labour of others.



The economy is growing. Stick with the economic recovery - vote Labour on May 6th.

LATEST NEWS (29 April 2010): Brown supported by 100 senior economists on economy who say he's got it right

http://ht.ly/1ED15

LATEST NEWS: The International Monetary Fund support Labour's economic plans for 2010 and also oppose tackling the deficit before 2011: "In most advanced economies, fiscal and monetary policies should maintain a supportive thrust in 2010 to sustain growth and employment. Regarding the near term, given the fragile recovery, fiscal stimulus planned for 2010 should be fully implemented". Read more

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/21/western-economies-too-weak-for-spending-cuts-imf-warns

This isn't a page created from political bias, using misleading statements in a bid to score points. It's a page based on facts. Please read below and follow the link at the bottom of this page for more information.



David Cameron, George Osborne and the Tories opposed every Labour Party measure which has seen the economy grow. Cameron and Osborne were wrong. They'll be wrong again. Don't allow the Tories to ruin the road to recovery.

"We opposed the £12 billion Labour wasted on the VAT cut. We were against the fiscal stimulus".

- David Cameron, Apr 2009.



David Cameron, George Osborne and the Tories opposed the fiscal stimulus and a cut in VAT. These measures were put in place by Labour and thanks to these measures, the economy is now growing, unemployment is falling.

There's one clear message: Labour policy is working. Let's not risk the recovery with the Tories who have opposed every measure which has seen the economy grow.



Vote Labour on May 6th - stick with the recovery.

Here are the facts of how Cameron opposed the stimulus, how they'll cut now when the economy needs it most and how their policies go against the advice of experts

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&suggest¬e_id=115147398510039


The Tory Non-Dom Leader and his UK Rep?

See also;

Old Etonian cries "Power to the People!"

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2010/04/old-etonian-cries-power-to-people.html

Lest we forget?

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2010/03/lest-we-forget.html

Lord Cashcroft

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2010/03/lord-cashcroft.html

We will fight them at Selfridges

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-will-fight-them-selfridges.html

Britain must not journey back to the past on May 6th

There has been much negative campaigning in the British General Election and playing the blame game on the past. Politics is a bit like running a restaurant – because people can cook their one dish they then think they can run their own place. However as many have found out reality is a harsh teacher.

The contrast between this global recession and the early Nineties is graphic. Then mortgages were at 14.6% and the then Chancellor, the lamentable Norman Lamont said unemployment was a “price well worth paying.” His “special advisor” was one David Cameron who was with him when he led the country into the unmitigated disaster of Black Wednesday.


The last time the Stockbroker's son got near the economy

The Conservatives are now headed by a troika of Old Etonians, Dave Cameron, Gideon Osborne & Boris Johnson, and with their MP’s being 64% the product of private schools The Tory Boys and Gals want to play Tuck Shop with the country again. This is no time to let amateurs born with silver spoons learn on the job while looking after their “own kind” and playing PR lip service to a “Big Society” – at the back of it all are the Thatcherites who still believe there is no such thing as Society!



Even Sir Reginald Sheffield’s photogenic daughter does not make the Tories an electable government. We all remember the dark days under Thatcher. In fact, we remember them every day - because years later, so many hard-working British families are still trying to recover from the days of Tory control. We cannot afford to let history repeat itself, and to allow David Cameron to destroy the great progress we've made. Let us not forget the loss of homes, the unemployment, the division, the destruction of the NHS and Education, the Poll Tax and the arrogance towards the “little people” – You know the ones who actually pay tax? Vote to Slam Cam!


Kathryn White

I’m supporting Kathryn White as Labour candidate for Aylesbury. She'll make an excellent MP and shake up the smug Conservative / Lib Dem cartel locally.

http://www.kathrynwhite.co.uk

She is a local person who was born and bred in Aylesbury and wants the best for the constituency. She is standing to represent local people from her home area and to give a voice to the majority who are sick of being ignored by the local Tory and Lib Dem cartel.



Whether it is early years’ education, healthcare, social housing or pensioner support, the work Labour has done in the past 13 years has helped make our country a better place. That is the Britain we’ve been building together - the change we see all around us.



Together we have introduced the National Minimum Wage and achieved the shortest waiting times since NHS records began, brought in the first ever legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions and now have over 44,000 more doctors and 89,000 more nurses than in 1997. This is just some of what Labour has been able to achieve so far with your support but there is more to do. Only one party in this election has the moral purpose to deliver for ordinary people – The Party which was set up to protect honest people who rely on their Labour, not the spivs, not the toffs with their sense of entitlement, not those who live off the labour of others.



The economy is growing. Stick with the economic recovery - vote Labour on May 6th.

LATEST NEWS (29 April 2010): Brown supported by 100 senior economists on economy who say he's got it right

http://ht.ly/1ED15

LATEST NEWS: The International Monetary Fund support Labour's economic plans for 2010 and also oppose tackling the deficit before 2011: "In most advanced economies, fiscal and monetary policies should maintain a supportive thrust in 2010 to sustain growth and employment. Regarding the near term, given the fragile recovery, fiscal stimulus planned for 2010 should be fully implemented". Read more

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/21/western-economies-too-weak-for-spending-cuts-imf-warns

This isn't a page created from political bias, using misleading statements in a bid to score points. It's a page based on facts. Please read below and follow the link at the bottom of this page for more information.



David Cameron, George Osborne and the Tories opposed every Labour Party measure which has seen the economy grow. Cameron and Osborne were wrong. They'll be wrong again. Don't allow the Tories to ruin the road to recovery.

"We opposed the £12 billion Labour wasted on the VAT cut. We were against the fiscal stimulus".

- David Cameron, Apr 2009.



David Cameron, George Osborne and the Tories opposed the fiscal stimulus and a cut in VAT. These measures were put in place by Labour and thanks to these measures, the economy is now growing, unemployment is falling.

There's one clear message: Labour policy is working. Let's not risk the recovery with the Tories who have opposed every measure which has seen the economy grow.



Vote Labour on May 6th - stick with the recovery.

Here are the facts of how Cameron opposed the stimulus, how they'll cut now when the economy needs it most and how their policies go against the advice of experts

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&suggest¬e_id=115147398510039


The Tory Non-Dom Leader and his UK Rep?

See also;

Old Etonian cries "Power to the People!"

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2010/04/old-etonian-cries-power-to-people.html

Lest we forget?

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2010/03/lest-we-forget.html

Lord Cashcroft

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2010/03/lord-cashcroft.html

We will fight them at Selfridges

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-will-fight-them-selfridges.html

English Defence League protest leads to 12 arrests

Tonight Aylesbury is deserted at the end of a tense and economically damaging day after English Defence League protestors descended on Aylesbury's Market Square chanting 'England' repeatedly and engaging in some audible racist chanting. As I predicted the effect on Aylesbury of this racist Rent-a-mob descending was fairly dramatic with the Town Centre in a complete lockdown and over 600 Police on duty including mounted police, Police from Wales and the Police Helicopter overhead. For a Town Centre where a normal policeman cannot be found on a Saturday this is a dramatic and expensive change. No Market took place in Market Square, The main shopping centres and bus station closed as did most shops in the Town Centre, many of which were boarded up. EDL members wouldn’t quiet appreciate the economic damage they have done as few of them appear to be economically active.

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2010/04/edl-are-not-wanted-in-aylesbury.html

However their attempted invasion of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire failed today. The EDL’s racist, swaggering; Islamophobic supporters hoped they could take over the town and intimidate Muslims and ordinary people. They failed.



They hoped Asians and black people and trade unionists would be too scared to demonstrate against them. They failed. Around 200 anti-EDL demonstrators, overwhelmingly local people including trade unionists and 75 Asian people, gathered in the town’s Vale Park in a show of anti-racism and support for multiculturalism.
Twelve people have been arrested during the protest which attracted more than 800 people. The EDL, which says it opposes "militant Islam", organised the protest in Aylesbury's Market Square. A police spokesman said that "on the whole" the protest had been peaceful but there had been "some disorder". Eight of the people arrested were being held on suspicion of carrying offensive weapons.

Several "disorders" were dealt with by riot officers as more than 800 English Defence League supporters gathered in Aylesbury, Thames Valley Police said. Demonstrators were believed to have hurled coins, glass bottles, plastic flag sticks and cans at officers. Officers had to deal with a surge against police lines in the Market Square.



The EDL protest presented a "major challenge for the town", officers said. The organisation, which describes itself as "a counter-Jihad movement", has held several demonstrations in recent months in Manchester, Bolton and Dudley. Police said there were fewer protestors than the EDL had anticipated.

Supt Richard List, of Aylesbury police, said: "We made it very clear to the EDL at the outset that we would not tolerate any disorder on the day and that there would be a significant police presence. "The police operation will continue until we are totally satisfied that there are no risks or threats to public safety. “He added “We are a tolerant, successful and proud town - we all need to remember our tremendous strengths at this difficult time. I would like to express my sincere thanks to you all."A counter protest was held in Vale Park earlier, but has since dispersed.

Andrew Grant, the chief executive of Aylesbury Vale District Council said afterwards that “a range of entertainment has been organised for Monday by the Town Centre Partnership to help welcome people back to the town". Indeed – the vast majority of local people will be glad the EDL have gone.



The Muslims who defended Britain.

English Defence League protest leads to 12 arrests

Tonight Aylesbury is deserted at the end of a tense and economically damaging day after English Defence League protestors descended on Aylesbury's Market Square chanting 'England' repeatedly and engaging in some audible racist chanting. As I predicted the effect on Aylesbury of this racist Rent-a-mob descending was fairly dramatic with the Town Centre in a complete lockdown and over 600 Police on duty including mounted police, Police from Wales and the Police Helicopter overhead. For a Town Centre where a normal policeman cannot be found on a Saturday this is a dramatic and expensive change. No Market took place in Market Square, The main shopping centres and bus station closed as did most shops in the Town Centre, many of which were boarded up. EDL members wouldn’t quiet appreciate the economic damage they have done as few of them appear to be economically active.

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2010/04/edl-are-not-wanted-in-aylesbury.html

However their attempted invasion of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire failed today. The EDL’s racist, swaggering; Islamophobic supporters hoped they could take over the town and intimidate Muslims and ordinary people. They failed.



They hoped Asians and black people and trade unionists would be too scared to demonstrate against them. They failed. Around 200 anti-EDL demonstrators, overwhelmingly local people including trade unionists and 75 Asian people, gathered in the town’s Vale Park in a show of anti-racism and support for multiculturalism.
Twelve people have been arrested during the protest which attracted more than 800 people. The EDL, which says it opposes "militant Islam", organised the protest in Aylesbury's Market Square. A police spokesman said that "on the whole" the protest had been peaceful but there had been "some disorder". Eight of the people arrested were being held on suspicion of carrying offensive weapons.

Several "disorders" were dealt with by riot officers as more than 800 English Defence League supporters gathered in Aylesbury, Thames Valley Police said. Demonstrators were believed to have hurled coins, glass bottles, plastic flag sticks and cans at officers. Officers had to deal with a surge against police lines in the Market Square.



The EDL protest presented a "major challenge for the town", officers said. The organisation, which describes itself as "a counter-Jihad movement", has held several demonstrations in recent months in Manchester, Bolton and Dudley. Police said there were fewer protestors than the EDL had anticipated.

Supt Richard List, of Aylesbury police, said: "We made it very clear to the EDL at the outset that we would not tolerate any disorder on the day and that there would be a significant police presence. "The police operation will continue until we are totally satisfied that there are no risks or threats to public safety. “He added “We are a tolerant, successful and proud town - we all need to remember our tremendous strengths at this difficult time. I would like to express my sincere thanks to you all."A counter protest was held in Vale Park earlier, but has since dispersed.

Andrew Grant, the chief executive of Aylesbury Vale District Council said afterwards that “a range of entertainment has been organised for Monday by the Town Centre Partnership to help welcome people back to the town". Indeed – the vast majority of local people will be glad the EDL have gone.



The Muslims who defended Britain.

The EDL are not wanted in Aylesbury

England's Defenders?

Aylesbury last Saturday was its usual relaxed weekend self enjoying a sunny day enlivened by St. George’s day celebrations on a subdued scale. In Kingsbury Square the cafes and pubs had plenty of tables outside as people enjoyed the weather with their children and had a drink or snack whilst enjoying the Morris Dancing. There was also a Dragon roaming around attracting the kids and a little street train with a loco called “George” bringing the kids around the pedestrianised centre of the town. In the Market Square, overlooked by the statue of the local MP John Hampden whose refusal to pay the “ship tax” (Buckinghamshire is not on the coast!) to Charles I precipitated the English Civil War, the market traders jostled for custom from their colourful stalls as they have done for over four hundred years in this the County Town of Buckinghamshire. In the courtyard of the King’s Head, an ancient coaching inn owned by the National Trust, locals and visitors were enjoying the live music and the traditional ale from the Chiltern Brewery.


Market Square, Aylesbury

But what a difference a week will make in this town of 70,000 people. There is a sizable minority of Muslims in Aylesbury who are mostly from Pakistan controlled Kashmir where they have fled from conflict and work hard to provide a better future for themselves and their children. We have a Mosque and some of the best schools in the UK and by and large everybody rubs along quiet well. There is, as in any large town, a lumpen proletariat and there have been in the past some racist incidents whose reports generally include the words “skinheads” and “drink” but we pride ourselves on community relations and have had a Muslim Mayor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/may/28/race.world

Aylesbury has a mixture of London commuters and busy local employment and is set in the attractive and rich farming area of the Vale of Aylesbury close by the Chiltern Escarpment and the area of Outstanding Natural Beauty known as the Chiltern Hills. It is a good and improving place with a good quality of life which is appreciated by the inhabitants who include sturdy yeomen of Buckinghamshire and many who have moved here from elsewhere including a large Italian and Irish community and more recently Polish. It is an inclusive place and we are particularly protective of disabled people who are very visible in the Town Centre on a normal Saturday as Stoke Mandeville Hospital with the National Spinal Injuries Centre is nearby. That was last Saturday. Next Saturday will be different, very different.


The borrowed iconography of the EDL including Constantine the Great's motto " In this sign I will conquer"

On Saturday 1st May our town is being high jacked by a self appointed Rent-a-Mob called the English Defence League or EDL. The effect is palpable. Aylesbury Bus Station will be closed, many small shops are closing at 12, they gave been advised by the Police to not have chairs and tables outside, keep shutters down and consider if they want to really open. The fear is well founded as the video taken by a neutral outsider at a recent EDL “Rally” in Stoke on Trent where 17 people were arrested shows. So next Saturday May the 1st these strangers are going to use our town to contrive conflict where none exists. So next Saturday in Aylesbury Town Centre there will be no buses, no old people, no children, no disabled people and no shoppers. There will also be no pubs open in the town. Here are the details from these Brave English Defenders own website;

“Initially, point 'A' was chosen as a muster area due to it having a small cluster of pubs that would serve as a meet point for our supporters to socialise in before the demonstration. However, the local licensing authority has visited these pubs and as an upshot of that, they have decided to close on the day. We would like to point out that at every single EDL demonstration; no pub has ever received any damage whatsoever. A business that could take three weeks worth of business in the space of a couple of hours deciding to close? I don't know what was said to them, but it sure must have been scary.”

Some Brave Army the EDL marching on its accelerated alcohol consumption?


Kingsbury Square, Aylesbury where all the pubs and cafes will close next Saturday

Some England, some defence? And who are the EDL? Well they have no discernible policy, have not been elected or stood in any democratic process and their web site consists of one long sneer against Muslim people quoting liberally from extremist and unrepresentative Muslim preachers to justify their obsessive fixation with “defending” the English against Islam?

The national leader of the English Defence League has warned that Saturday's demonstration in Aylesbury could be the first of many after a bitter row erupted with police and council bosses. Officers were hoping to keep EDL members on the outskirts of town before a rally in Market Square, to prevent skirmishes with counter demonstrators. But yesterday Tommy Robinson – not his real name – said EDL protestors are now planning to evade police and instead gather in Vale Park – where an anti-EDL demonstration is due to be held.


King's Head Aylesbury

He said: "If our demonstration doesn't go how we want it to go, we'll come back in six weeks. No other place has tried to block us like this one has." The EDL fell foul of police and council chiefs after trying to put up a stage and use loudspeakers – which they need a licence for. At a tense meeting on Monday, they were also told that they were not allowed to carry wooden framed banners. Coach loads of EDL members would have been met by police and escorted to Market Square, where they would have been contained inside solid barriers. Robinson said ominously: "We don't think they're doing well if they want it to go peacefully."

Here is a thoughtful article in the Guardian about this entirely bogus “protest” which is hijacking our town next Saturday by local resident and Labour Parliamentary Candidate in the forthcoming General Election, Kathryn White.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/09/english-defence-league-aylesbury

So in Aylesbury next Saturday let us keep our nerve with these unwanted and unwelcome visitors. As Communities Minister John Denham pointed out, “The tactic of trying to provoke a response in the hope of causing wider violence and mayhem is long established on the far-right and among extremist groups.” Let us remind ourselves of the EDL’s origins which highlights the ambiguous position that the BNP holds in regards to this new combination of football hooligan gangs and street racists. The BNP, and the NF before it, used to openly embrace football hooligans as useful muscle with a fierce nationalist pride. However, demonstrations and punch ups no longer fit with the image that the BNP tries to project, and so the EDL has filled a gap in far right politics that the BNP voluntarily vacated in its pursuit of votes.


The flower of England?

So does England need these “Defenders?” Well, England has defended itself fairly well in the past and I presume will do so very well in the future and the EDL membership will make no contribution either way. Like the ludicrous Nick Griffin, the convicted racist who leads the BNP, who surrounds himself in photo ops with make believe soldiers in battle fatigues the EDL will seek to use the last refuge of a scoundrel and these shower of aggressive, unemployed yobs will wrap themselves in false patriotism, a patriotism which probably doesn’t include not being dole scroungers? You have to wonder about the mentality of people whose idea of a good day out on a Bank Holiday weekend is to hold a market town and its diverse inhabitants to ransom. There is no point in me telling them not to come to Aylesbury for their tribal cow stomping because, lets face it, these yobs didn’t get where they are today by listening to others. There is also the practical point that if they were to get themselves tanked up, fight the other side in a macho male tribal display and then go home and watch their yobbery on TV after a footie match it would cost them a lot more than these members of the underachieving Master Race can afford.

Preserve us from such sham defenders; preserve us from such sham patriots.

The EDL are not wanted in Aylesbury

England's Defenders?

Aylesbury last Saturday was its usual relaxed weekend self enjoying a sunny day enlivened by St. George’s day celebrations on a subdued scale. In Kingsbury Square the cafes and pubs had plenty of tables outside as people enjoyed the weather with their children and had a drink or snack whilst enjoying the Morris Dancing. There was also a Dragon roaming around attracting the kids and a little street train with a loco called “George” bringing the kids around the pedestrianised centre of the town. In the Market Square, overlooked by the statue of the local MP John Hampden whose refusal to pay the “ship tax” (Buckinghamshire is not on the coast!) to Charles I precipitated the English Civil War, the market traders jostled for custom from their colourful stalls as they have done for over four hundred years in this the County Town of Buckinghamshire. In the courtyard of the King’s Head, an ancient coaching inn owned by the National Trust, locals and visitors were enjoying the live music and the traditional ale from the Chiltern Brewery.


Market Square, Aylesbury

But what a difference a week will make in this town of 70,000 people. There is a sizable minority of Muslims in Aylesbury who are mostly from Pakistan controlled Kashmir where they have fled from conflict and work hard to provide a better future for themselves and their children. We have a Mosque and some of the best schools in the UK and by and large everybody rubs along quiet well. There is, as in any large town, a lumpen proletariat and there have been in the past some racist incidents whose reports generally include the words “skinheads” and “drink” but we pride ourselves on community relations and have had a Muslim Mayor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/may/28/race.world

Aylesbury has a mixture of London commuters and busy local employment and is set in the attractive and rich farming area of the Vale of Aylesbury close by the Chiltern Escarpment and the area of Outstanding Natural Beauty known as the Chiltern Hills. It is a good and improving place with a good quality of life which is appreciated by the inhabitants who include sturdy yeomen of Buckinghamshire and many who have moved here from elsewhere including a large Italian and Irish community and more recently Polish. It is an inclusive place and we are particularly protective of disabled people who are very visible in the Town Centre on a normal Saturday as Stoke Mandeville Hospital with the National Spinal Injuries Centre is nearby. That was last Saturday. Next Saturday will be different, very different.


The borrowed iconography of the EDL including Constantine the Great's motto " In this sign I will conquer"

On Saturday 1st May our town is being high jacked by a self appointed Rent-a-Mob called the English Defence League or EDL. The effect is palpable. Aylesbury Bus Station will be closed, many small shops are closing at 12, they gave been advised by the Police to not have chairs and tables outside, keep shutters down and consider if they want to really open. The fear is well founded as the video taken by a neutral outsider at a recent EDL “Rally” in Stoke on Trent where 17 people were arrested shows. So next Saturday May the 1st these strangers are going to use our town to contrive conflict where none exists. So next Saturday in Aylesbury Town Centre there will be no buses, no old people, no children, no disabled people and no shoppers. There will also be no pubs open in the town. Here are the details from these Brave English Defenders own website;

“Initially, point 'A' was chosen as a muster area due to it having a small cluster of pubs that would serve as a meet point for our supporters to socialise in before the demonstration. However, the local licensing authority has visited these pubs and as an upshot of that, they have decided to close on the day. We would like to point out that at every single EDL demonstration; no pub has ever received any damage whatsoever. A business that could take three weeks worth of business in the space of a couple of hours deciding to close? I don't know what was said to them, but it sure must have been scary.”

Some Brave Army the EDL marching on its accelerated alcohol consumption?


Kingsbury Square, Aylesbury where all the pubs and cafes will close next Saturday

Some England, some defence? And who are the EDL? Well they have no discernible policy, have not been elected or stood in any democratic process and their web site consists of one long sneer against Muslim people quoting liberally from extremist and unrepresentative Muslim preachers to justify their obsessive fixation with “defending” the English against Islam?

The national leader of the English Defence League has warned that Saturday's demonstration in Aylesbury could be the first of many after a bitter row erupted with police and council bosses. Officers were hoping to keep EDL members on the outskirts of town before a rally in Market Square, to prevent skirmishes with counter demonstrators. But yesterday Tommy Robinson – not his real name – said EDL protestors are now planning to evade police and instead gather in Vale Park – where an anti-EDL demonstration is due to be held.


King's Head Aylesbury

He said: "If our demonstration doesn't go how we want it to go, we'll come back in six weeks. No other place has tried to block us like this one has." The EDL fell foul of police and council chiefs after trying to put up a stage and use loudspeakers – which they need a licence for. At a tense meeting on Monday, they were also told that they were not allowed to carry wooden framed banners. Coach loads of EDL members would have been met by police and escorted to Market Square, where they would have been contained inside solid barriers. Robinson said ominously: "We don't think they're doing well if they want it to go peacefully."

Here is a thoughtful article in the Guardian about this entirely bogus “protest” which is hijacking our town next Saturday by local resident and Labour Parliamentary Candidate in the forthcoming General Election, Kathryn White.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/09/english-defence-league-aylesbury

So in Aylesbury next Saturday let us keep our nerve with these unwanted and unwelcome visitors. As Communities Minister John Denham pointed out, “The tactic of trying to provoke a response in the hope of causing wider violence and mayhem is long established on the far-right and among extremist groups.” Let us remind ourselves of the EDL’s origins which highlights the ambiguous position that the BNP holds in regards to this new combination of football hooligan gangs and street racists. The BNP, and the NF before it, used to openly embrace football hooligans as useful muscle with a fierce nationalist pride. However, demonstrations and punch ups no longer fit with the image that the BNP tries to project, and so the EDL has filled a gap in far right politics that the BNP voluntarily vacated in its pursuit of votes.


The flower of England?

So does England need these “Defenders?” Well, England has defended itself fairly well in the past and I presume will do so very well in the future and the EDL membership will make no contribution either way. Like the ludicrous Nick Griffin, the convicted racist who leads the BNP, who surrounds himself in photo ops with make believe soldiers in battle fatigues the EDL will seek to use the last refuge of a scoundrel and these shower of aggressive, unemployed yobs will wrap themselves in false patriotism, a patriotism which probably doesn’t include not being dole scroungers? You have to wonder about the mentality of people whose idea of a good day out on a Bank Holiday weekend is to hold a market town and its diverse inhabitants to ransom. There is no point in me telling them not to come to Aylesbury for their tribal cow stomping because, lets face it, these yobs didn’t get where they are today by listening to others. There is also the practical point that if they were to get themselves tanked up, fight the other side in a macho male tribal display and then go home and watch their yobbery on TV after a footie match it would cost them a lot more than these members of the underachieving Master Race can afford.

Preserve us from such sham defenders; preserve us from such sham patriots.