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category bristol | protests | opinion/analysis author Monday July 16, 2012 13:37author by Billauthor email william.parsons at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

The EDL came to Bristol this weekend and despite much bravado and keyboard bravery the reality is they were able to march through the town down the roads they chose pretty much without hindrence.  Why did we fail to stop them ?

Some reports talk of "2000 protestors on the streets"  which is of course rubbish. less than a 1000 Bristol peeps thought it worthwhile to try and stop a Nazi organisation walking their streets, why the apathy, why the indiference ?

Is it because Bristolians support the EDL ? - No of course not, the reality is that like in most of the country the EDL is ignored and ridiculed however regretfully so is the political Left and the Anarchist movement, our appeals are largely ignored in the same way that the EDL is ignored.  

Are we in danger of being two fleas fighting over who owns the dog ?

Where do we go from here ?

 

There will be a meeting at the Quaker House in Wilson St on Saturday evening to discuss lessons learnt and to plan for the future - 7pm all welcome.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
 1   The death of Left politics     Ian    Mon Jul 16, 2012 15:17 
 2   Nonsense     Boyd    Mon Jul 16, 2012 15:57 
 3   Bites     Reality    Mon Jul 16, 2012 16:04 
 4   Alright so....     Town End Boy    Mon Jul 16, 2012 16:44 
 5   Sorry to read this comment     Bill    Mon Jul 16, 2012 17:04 
 6   A good thing?     Apethetic    Mon Jul 16, 2012 17:38 
 7   Victory...     martin.w    Mon Jul 16, 2012 18:24 
 8   'twas Ironic     whiterthanmale    Mon Jul 16, 2012 18:43 
 9   Yawn     Reality    Mon Jul 16, 2012 19:45 
 10   Not too bad?     Mr JJJ    Mon Jul 16, 2012 19:50 
 11   About stopping the Ed;.     mickey bayliss    Mon Jul 16, 2012 21:28 
 12   already there     sticks    Mon Jul 16, 2012 21:44 
 13   Wow what a lot of trolling     Just shows we're winning    Mon Jul 16, 2012 22:23 
 14   @ mickey bayliss     amused    Mon Jul 16, 2012 22:44 
 15   Wrong criteria. We did fine, though there is a "but"     anon    Mon Jul 16, 2012 23:37 
 16   Boyd     Ismaili anarcho    Tue Jul 17, 2012 01:51 
 17   @Ismali anarcho     Boyd    Tue Jul 17, 2012 09:11 
 18   Why I was not there     Bristolian    Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:22 
 19   For 'Bristolian'     Bristol Anarchist    Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:51 
 20   The Reason     erm    Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:24 
 21   Post of the week     Still laughing    Tue Jul 17, 2012 13:07 
 22   What a load of total horseshit.     Anti-troll    Tue Jul 17, 2012 20:15 
 23   Taken seriously     Joe Public    Wed Jul 18, 2012 02:35 
 24   Was there     Was there unlike many of those above    Wed Jul 18, 2012 09:23 
 25   The decline of the Far Right & Left     Elaine    Wed Jul 18, 2012 13:12 
 26   @erm     John Name    Wed Jul 18, 2012 18:12 
 27   to the above 2 commenters     J    Wed Jul 18, 2012 23:34 
 28   fleas and dogs and pigs     lort    Thu Jul 19, 2012 00:03 
 29   "majority of the public"     anon    Thu Jul 19, 2012 19:32 
 30   Give the public more credit     lort    Fri Jul 20, 2012 00:28 
 31   GPWM     anon    Fri Jul 20, 2012 01:33 
 32   Well said     Luca    Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:54 
 33   Right there!     Mr JJJ    Fri Jul 20, 2012 17:50 
 34   No thanks     Luca    Fri Jul 20, 2012 18:54 
 35   EDL ~ Ramadan     Leila    Fri Jul 20, 2012 21:24 
 36   Dude...     Mr JJJ    Fri Jul 20, 2012 21:31 
 37   Far Left and Far Right     Act or perish    Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:28 
 38   Far Left and Far Right     lort    Sun Jul 22, 2012 22:32 
 39   @Luca     darkside321    Thu Jul 26, 2012 13:41 


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