Top Cats Hat   10 #1 Posted October 20, 2018 While possibly up to three quarters of a million people marched for a vote on the EU deal in London, in Manchester that hopeless bunch of saddos of the EDL attracted so little support for their national demo that local Mancs were falling about laughing at the pathetic turnout!  What was that turnout?  200,000?  20,000?  2,000?  Surely not 200?  No, it was 20 people!  Even post Brexit vote, they couldn't even get as many people as were in my my local on a quiet Tuesday lunchtime.  Love the headline!  https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/there-been-more-members-sugarbabes-15306865 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
steve68   66 #2 Posted October 20, 2018 While possibly up to three quarters of a million people marched for a vote on the EU deal in London, in Manchester that hopeless bunch of saddos of the EDL attracted so little support for their national demo that local Mancs were falling about laughing at the pathetic turnout! What was that turnout?  200,000?  20,000?  2,000?  Surely not 200?  No, it was 20 people!  Even post Brexit vote, they couldn't even get as many people as were in my my local on a quiet Tuesday lunchtime.  Love the headline!  https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/there-been-more-members-sugarbabes-15306865  That's sad for them, butt-funny Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Mister Gee   823 #3 Posted October 20, 2018 (edited) ...............l.ll.l Edited October 21, 2018 by Mister Gee Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
melthebell   863 #4 Posted October 20, 2018 saw the picture, a very tiny square, all surrounded by police, there was virtually one mounted copper per marcher lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Ridgewalk   101 #5 Posted October 21, 2018 But this has been the story of extreme right wing groups since the 1930s, NF, BNP, EDL etc, make a lot of noise for three or four years and then consigned to the history books as their members either drink themselves to death, grow up, or get jailed for anti-social recidivist behaviour. Little Tommy, Frayda and Goulding already on that path.  In respect of the no platform for fascists approach, I reckon that getting Nick Griffin onto BBC Question time and exposing him to scrutiny as an intellectual light weight unable to think on his feet or produce a coherent sentence finished him off as well as the BNP. The sight of him cowering behind a fellow panelist ( black woman) was priceless and destroyed his credibility Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Bob Arctor   11 #6 Posted October 21, 2018 That turnout is truly pathetic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Lockdoctor   10 #7 Posted October 21, 2018 What is pathetic and not a laughing matter is that the taxpayer has to fund the policing. The EDL didn't attract much support, but they do drive away normal people, who support local businesses in the places they hold marches. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Top Cats Hat   10 #8 Posted October 21, 2018  In respect of the no platform for fascists approach, I reckon that getting Nick Griffin onto BBC Question time and exposing him to scrutiny as an intellectual light weight unable to think on his feet or produce a coherent sentence finished him off as well as the BNP.  I totally agree.  I was working at Television Centre that day and had to brave the 'no platform' protests to get in and out of the building. That appearance finished Griffin as a political leader and that was at a time when the BNP was riding high having 50 local councillors, 500,000 votes in the general election, a member on the London Assembly and two MEPs.  It was a perfect example of the dangers of living in a bubble. It is all very well getting a standing ovation from 20 middle aged men in the back room of a pub but when your ideas are exposed to the harsh light of reasoned argument it becomes a completely different matter.  I would suggest that it was also the rise of UKIP that destroyed the BNP as an electoral force. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Penistone999 Â Â 10 #9 Posted October 21, 2018 Im assuming the trouble causers from the UAF turned up hoping to provoke them into a fight ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Halibut   12 #10 Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) Im assuming the trouble causers from the UAF turned up hoping to provoke them into a fight ?  Keeping scum off the streets. Fascism is bad. Check out WW2.  Why don't you invite the scummers round to your place, you could smoke some knock off fags with them and feel embittered that we aren't speaking German and ethnically pure. Edited October 21, 2018 by Halibut Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
tinfoilhat   11 #11 Posted October 21, 2018 Im assuming the trouble causers from the UAF turned up hoping to provoke them into a fight ?  No, as far as I can see they were just mocked on social media. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
scrapper   10 #12 Posted October 22, 2018 it said in the manchester rag there were 300 uaf Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...