EDL Plan March In Leicester

[Blue Maniac]

Just seen a coach load of the backward ****s near the station.

**** off EDL, go back to your own cities.

 

[indierich06]

They've beaten up a copper and he's had to be stretchered away. ****ing bunch of animals - get the hoses and the rubber ****ing bullets on them!

 

[drummindefender]

first reports from merc...

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co....ts-Centre/article-2740968-detail/article.html

 

[GazLCFC]

first reports from merc...

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co....ts-Centre/article-2740968-detail/article.html

And a report about fighting with local Aisian youths

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co....Leicester/article-2741048-detail/article.html

 

[Cate Fox]

for all of their bleating about peaceful protests, they have made themselves look the absolute bunch of animals they really are.

 

[Siouxsie]

6 coach loads marched through Harborough at lunchtime - the police blocked off the main street to stop anyone else from going up there. Then they got back on their coaches and went off.

My daughter was told it was because they got thrown off the trains at Harborough so had to get escorted coaches. I don't know if that's true.

 

[GazLCFC]

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/media.html?vid=8540

EDL breach police cordon.

 

[drummindefender]

I wonder how many of the EDL are actually from Leicester ?

 

[GazLCFC]

6 coach loads marched through Harborough at lunchtime - the police blocked off the main street to stop anyone else from going up there. Then they got back on their coaches and went off.

My daughter was told it was because they got thrown off the trains at Harborough so had to get escorted coaches. I don't know if that's true.

Mercury are reporting it wasn't planned. Sounds like they were meeting up there first to avoid the police

 

[Hazzman]

It appears it kicked off in Highfield and most wankers broke loose from the area.

All the EDL have done is show themselves up to be a violent entity. Completely against what they said they would be. They have caused themselves more harm having their opportunity to showcase their freedom to speech.

 

[GazLCFC]

Police on Twitter saying groups gathering in Highfields but no EDL.

 

[Hazzman]

Also reported their leader, Tommy Robinson arrested.

 

[Siouxsie]

Mercury are reporting it wasn't planned. Sounds like they were meeting up there first to avoid the police

The police were on the spot very quickly then, and the ones my daughters were talking to were from Yorkshire and Thames Valley etc so not local.

 

[GazLCFC]

The police were on the spot very quickly then, and the ones my daughters were talking to were from Yorkshire and Thames Valley etc so not local.

Report from LM doesn't suggest they were expected there.

From Leicester Mercury
Earlier, some of the group's supporters had gathered unexpectedly in Market Harborough.
About 300 people had gathered in the High Street in and around the Sugar Loaf pub.
It is understood not to be part of the official agreements over how today's protest will be co-ordinated,
Police became aware of the situation and have diverted a convoy of police vans to escort the EDL supporters to the city.

 

[spionfox]

They've beaten up a copper and he's had to be stretchered away.

I heard on RL about a leg injury to a policeman but they didn't mention anything about him being 'beaten up'. Was that what happened?

 

[Siouxsie]

Report from LM doesn't suggest they were expected there.

yes just spoken to someone who is involved with the police and she said that

 

[Dour]

Some prick chucked a brick through a bus window on Welford Place right in front of my kids.

 

[David Gwilliam]

After all, it is they who are the problem?

No. They are only half of the problem.

Neither side understands the English. In the early 1930s when extremist parties seemed to be doing so well on the continent the English rejected Oswald Mosley and Harry Pollitt for Stanley Baldwin and Major Attlee.

Forgetting this nonsense was on, I foolishly went into town intending to go to Youngs Cameras, Jessops and the Belvoir Street library. Youngs like so many other places was boarded up and I did not try Jessops. The library staff carried on courageously in the belief that neither EDL or UAF are likely to be interested in books.

It becomes more irritating to see that the UAF person quoted came from Derby and the EDL from Manchester and travelled some way to cause trouble. I hope the courts will treat those arrested with the same severity as if the violence was football related.

Since the police had tried to stop the demonstrations I wonder whether the Leicester businesses that were closed could get compensation from the UAF and EDL. Financial penalties might be very effective.

 

[Nottingham Fox]

Sky News truck targeted by the EDL, 4 of the crew had to lock themselves inside.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK...Sky_News_Satellite_Truck_In_Leicester_Protest

 

[Macky]

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