The EDL and anti-fascist group will both head for city hall next Saturday. Photo: Denise Bradley
English Defence League and counter demonstrators will both march on Norwich’s city hall
Thursday, November 1, 2012
5:30 PM
Two rival political factions will both march on city hall on Saturday November 10.
The English Defence League (EDL) will gather at Castle Gardens while counter protesters, a group called We are Norwich, will march from Chapelfield Gardens.
The EDL, whose protests are frequently marred with violence, are demonstrating in Norwich to protest at the city council’s decision to ban a preacher from a stall on Hay Hill for publishing “hate-motivated” leaflets.
Police promised a “substantial” operation to keep order in the city.
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39 comments
martin wallis, met plod on horse back beckons, plus not many big footy matches in the capitol on the 10th = double bubble awayday ££££...every little helps
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nrg
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
milex, have you read the pamphlet??? I'm not sure the ramblings of a dog collard nutter, deserves airing, even if given away free...side note..for the freedom speech case; the pamphlet is freely available on the internet or from the nutter himself.
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nrg
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
its incredible that people in a european country are protesting because their basic democratic right of free speech has been taken away . We have norfolk and norwich MPS who have stood by and said absolutely nothing as norwich labour council have persecuted a local church for daring to use their right to free speech. Why are these MPS silent on this very serious issue of free speech denial
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milecross
Monday, November 5, 2012
The EDL are just a bunch of wanabee hard men.football hooligans or morons stuck in the past.All bomber jackets and shaved heads.Generally too stupid to be dangerous. The UAF to be fair are'nt much better.Brainwashed students,middle class lefties or muslims with a chip on their shoulder. Neither side has enough brains or support to be a real threat to anyone. The people of the fine city should just go about their buisness as usual and ignore the numptys,let them get cold and wet if they want to.I might get myself a coffee and watch them making fools of themselves.
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timmy_two_sheds
Sunday, November 4, 2012
You are mad, brewer, Norwich people have no say as to what happens in their City if they so see fit? Are you from Ipswich?
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ingo wagenknecht
Sunday, November 4, 2012
milecross: I am not a member of either UAF (can you not read?) or 'we are norwich'. I am a Marxist. Groucho Marxist - "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members". And the word that you are looking for, chummy, is not slander but libel! All clear now? Run along and play...
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martin wallis
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Neither group has a mandate to posture under its assumed title. Must ensure I`m somewhere peaceful on the 10th. Beirut, maybe, or Mile Cross.
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Mad Brewer
Sunday, November 4, 2012
More responses than words in the article, just as expected. Free speech is fine with me, and I'm for everyone getting heard, including those thugs who support Anders Breivig,the right wing terrorist who stopped the dreams of 76 teenagers and want nothing but mayhem. But I shall make sure that my message is louder, drowning out this sorry fascist leftover. For the BNP to distance itself from the NF and the EDL is laughable, they have a common heritage and their hate speeches are no different to that of the NSDAP. Lets hope milex and BNP4GB respect those parents with children who will also be there, . I have every confidence in the police that they will look after their own men amongst the crowd and can identify them.
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ingo wagenknecht
Sunday, November 4, 2012
More responses than words in the article, just as expected. Free speech is fine with me, and I'm for everyone getting heard, including those thugs who support right wing murder and mayhem. But I shall make sure that my message is louder, drowning out this sorry fascist leftover. For the BNP to distance itself from the NF and the EDL is laughable, they have a common heritage and their hate speeches are no different to that of the NSDAP. Anybody got a spare vuvuzela?
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ingo wagenknecht
Sunday, November 4, 2012
another two comentss from the we are norwich UAF brigade but still no argument . Just slander
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milecross
Saturday, November 3, 2012
BNP4GB: I would be obliged if you would resist the temptation to speculate about what I might or might not prefer... and face up to the blindingly obvious fact that the BNP is a neo-FASCIST organisation, the type against which service men and women fought valiantly in WW2. As for choosing Commemoration Day because it was the only day available to avoid inconveniencing Xmas shoppers... I will treat that with the contempt that it deserves. Finally, UAF are misfits only in so far as they don't fit your perverted idea of what being British means. All clear now?
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martin wallis
Saturday, November 3, 2012
nrg: in the Bell? that's where the NFcumBNP used to meet back in the 1970s: the Met won't be in Norridge for a piddling little march like this will they?
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martin wallis
Saturday, November 3, 2012
milex, the rest of the world will be watching football, 30 or 40 beer bellied failed 3rd division football fans ain't gonna stop the world. Plod will contain you in the Bell, film you as you file out,you'll probably have several agent provocateurs in your ranks, little planned skirmish will kick off and then the Met Plod will kettle you in until your weeing in your pants...at that time, I do hope the world is watching.
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nrg
Friday, November 2, 2012
i hope on nov 10 that the rest of the world will be watching . On that day people will be marching for their democratic right to free speech . Not in some third world country . But in the united kingdom . NORWICH
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milecross
Friday, November 2, 2012
martin wallis, I suppose you would prefer to see a bunch of muslim protestors burning poppies and insulting our armed forces past and present., once again I remind you that Iam neither a facist or a thug I also have nothing to do with the EDL although I would rather see them marching than a load of misfits and muslims which is generally the make up the UAF
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BNP4GB
Friday, November 2, 2012
Lets get one thing straight they are not my fellow flag wavers the EDL are not a group that the BNP associates itself with.
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BNP4GB
Friday, November 2, 2012
@martin wallis Yes we know our history, but that date was the only available to us without impeding on the build up to the Christmas shopping period this was discussed with the local police event planning team.
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East Anglian
Friday, November 2, 2012
still not one post on here from the we are norwich U.A.F brigade on the main subject of the march . The persecution of a local church by norwich labour council because they dared to use their democratic right to free speech .
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milecross
Friday, November 2, 2012
Millions died in the Second World War in the fight against nazism,the same evil ideology of the EDL and BNP and "the only thing needed for the triumph of evil is for good men(and women)to do nothing",2 good reasons for ordinary folk to support the peaceful "We Are Norwich" counter demonstration.The BBC have been showing a documentary "The Nazis:lessons from history" detailing the mass genocide of Jews,gypsies,the disabled and mentally ill,gay people along side trade unionists,socialists and communists-all met their death under the same nazi ideology as preached by the far right-it is a television series they should be made to watch.Today's scapegoats are Muslims rather than Jews but otherwise it the same old fascism,same old mass murder of those deemed to be inferior, the same old nazis our fathers and grandfathers fought.
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Peter Watson
Friday, November 2, 2012
BNP4GB: I am grateful to you for improving my education. UAF? I had to Google 'em. never heard of them. It turns out that they're United Against Fascism. Which, oddly enough, is what British and Allied service men and women were in 1939-1945. United against fascism. It ill behoves you or any of your neo-fascist thugs to remind us of this. To hold the EDL meeting on Commemoration Day is an open insult to the memory of those who fought against fascism in WWII. How dare you. Have you no shame? No sense of history?
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martin wallis
Friday, November 2, 2012
The two "marches" on the same day shouild not be allowed,
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Albert Cooper
Friday, November 2, 2012
mile cross, the EDL has also shown loyalties to Anders Breivig, also they might have forgotten it by now. Ex armed forces waving the union jack? maybe a few of them, thats normal. There will also be police officers under cover walking with them, sort of supporters, so nothing should really happen at all. We are Norwich are exactly that people from Norwich and Norfolk who do not agree with these thugs inviting themselves. To choose the 10th. Nov. is a disgrace to the dead of this country and I'm sure that the veterans would not agree with your sermon. BNP4GB, I'm not in any UAF or otherwise, nor are the vast majority, they are Norfolk people, not bussed in rent-a-mobs, for many this will be a family outing and there will be children there, so, lets hope your fellow flag wavers can behave themselves.
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ingo wagenknecht
Friday, November 2, 2012
milecross: it is totally disgraceful to try to co-opt our armed forces - past and present - into this discussion: if there are serving and ex-army bods who support the edl, they do so as private citizens: to imply that the services support the edl is to dishonour their service: pack it in, pal
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martin wallis
Friday, November 2, 2012
if the EDL had just been allowed to march there wouldn't have been all this brouhaha: they are benefitting from what That Awful Woman once memorably described as 'the oxygen of publicity'. Let 'em march. Let 'em speak. Is there a law in this country which says it is illegal for people to make fools of themselves in public?
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martin wallis
Friday, November 2, 2012
The vast majority of problems on these marches come from the the UAF and there hangers on......The strange thing is all these people that preach Diversity and free speech don't think it applies to the EDL.Just shows what a state this country is in hence the increased support for the EDL and protect what little is left of this once great Country.
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dave123
Friday, November 2, 2012
The vast majority of problems on these marches come from the the UAF and there hangers on......The strange thing is all these people that preach Diversity and free speech don't think it applies to the EDL.Just shows what a state this country is in hence the increased support for the EDL and protect what little is left of this once great Country.
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dave123
Friday, November 2, 2012
this all goes back to thirteen years of labour goverment . Anybody who waved the flag and was patriotic was treated as a racist and a thug
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milecross
Thursday, November 1, 2012
on the day of the march their will only be one group who will have the union jacks and be proud to be waving them and its certainly not the we are norwich brigade
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milecross
Thursday, November 1, 2012
milex, I don't think our armed forces need the support of a bunch of 3rd division wannabe football muggy twits.
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nrg
Thursday, November 1, 2012
To organise a counter demonstration on the same day only goes to affirm who the real troublemakers are and which group they belong to.
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Joe Mullets Uncle
Thursday, November 1, 2012
@ingo wag . Many edl members are members or past members of the armed forces and have regular speakers from the army at their marches. The edl have shown great loyalty to to the armed forces and to this country which is more than can be said for we are norwich brigade
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milecross
Thursday, November 1, 2012
dave123, further explain "a real life" if you can???
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nrg
Thursday, November 1, 2012
nrg- Probably a good time for you to get a real life instead of worrying about how much booze you can put down your neck!
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dave123
Thursday, November 1, 2012
My usual Saturday supping ruined by two groups of idiots .I do hope the Bell is told to shut by plod, these edl twits tend to head for weatherspoons to get tanked up.
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nrg
Thursday, November 1, 2012
We are norwich ? Who is that person
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billythebookie
Thursday, November 1, 2012
read all about it, here's the whole story,, all three sentences of it. I bet that over one hundred times the amount of words written above, will be received in replies. The EDL has invited itself to Norwich on the eve of Remembrance day, tarnishing the memory of many with their hate speeches, for free.
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ingo wagenknecht
Thursday, November 1, 2012
read all about it, here's the whole story,, all three sentences of it. I bet that over one hundred times the amount of words written above, will be received in replies. The EDL has invited itself to Norwich on the eve of Remembrance day, tarnishing the memory of many with their hate speeches, for free.
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ingo wagenknecht
Thursday, November 1, 2012
read all about it, here's the whole story,, all three sentences of it. I bet that over one hundred times the amount of words written above, will be received in replies. The EDL has invited itself to Norwich on the eve of Remembrance day, tarnishing the memory of many with their hate speeches, for free.
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ingo wagenknecht
Thursday, November 1, 2012
The E.D.L. should be allowed their protest march as freedom of expression,and those opposed should be allowed the same democratic privilege,BUT NOT ON THE SAME DAY,its just asking for trouble and expense to the tax opayer for in history the left dislike free speech when its a mayyer they don,t agree with
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Albert Cooper
Thursday, November 1, 2012