tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post2277316781777504860..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: The English Defence Leaguebobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-89335308336893013492010-06-07T11:36:44.385+01:002010-06-07T11:36:44.385+01:00Homegrown Loyalism makes sense to me intuitively, ...Homegrown Loyalism makes sense to me intuitively, not least given the history of involvement with Loyalism from some of the football firms, but also begs a lot of questions, as Loyalism is such an ideologically complicated formation. <br /><br />On the UAF, see my comment on the next post up.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-35912112425851052722010-06-06T19:38:31.208+01:002010-06-06T19:38:31.208+01:00The UAF are completely counter productive in the f...The UAF are completely counter productive in the fight against racism when they take to the streets - members of the public, and especially the working classes, see middle-class effete students waving Pakistan, Soviet and Al Qaeda flags and shouting "Nazi scum" (ridiculous, whatever you think of the EDL) at "normal" looking blokes with England flags.<br /><br />What an absolute gift to the racists.James Bloodworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02056322603243514660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-82647439960666894042010-06-06T02:42:26.278+01:002010-06-06T02:42:26.278+01:00Thanks for the link, I'm glad you appreciated ...Thanks for the link, I'm glad you appreciated our article.<br /><br />I watched the documentary on BBC3 and it confirmed what a lot of us thought about the EDL - they aren't hardcore nazis,and there may even be a few members who genuinely don't think the EDL is racist, but the core of their organisation is a fear of muslims, and asians, that many ordinary people unfortunately seem to share. The dangerous thing about them is their capacity to get large numbers of people onto the streets. Wherever they try to organise, we should oppose them - in Scotland, we have had huge successes in organising against the SDL outside of UAF (although the fact that the SDL are only able to mobilise a handful of people has also played a huge part in this).Liamhttp://ssy.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-18138935554144419242010-06-03T16:40:47.852+01:002010-06-03T16:40:47.852+01:00I'd say the EDL are currently best described a...I'd say the EDL are currently best described as a homegrown Loyalist movement. While not currently fascist (although some memebers are), they definitely have that potential. And Loyalism has always been an ideology that has been prone to attracting fascist fellow travellers.<br /><br />That would also explain the hostility, from a British nationalist perspective, that some of the EDL leadership show towards the overt neo nazis.Waterloo Sunsetnoreply@blogger.com