Good day, this is a very late post on my behalf, but after watching the news I felt a duty to write my thoughts before I forgot.
In the news tonight on BBC they reported about a protest in Bolton that was originally meant for the EDL (English Defence League) but naturally this encouraged the UAF (Unite Against Fascism) to essentially 'piss on their parade'. However the irony from the report was actually quite good. The BBC reported that 'out of the numerous arrests, most of these came from UAF with many being arrested for "pre-planned violence". Surely the UAF are supposed to be the ones against fascistic tactics such as violence yet they seem to be the ones causing the most trouble? If I was to protest against the EDL I would at least be peaceful and not use underhand tactics like the UAF, especially as it leaves them looking foolish.
Prior to the report, I had actually heard of both groups and ironically I was interested in joining the UAF after watching the Question Time with Nick Griffin. Yet since then, my idea in politics has clearly shifted and I oppose the UAF in many aspects. Obviously they have some right to protest, in reality the BNP are very controversial in their ideas, but to be fair the amount of grief and abuse from the BBC they get is pretty ridiculous in the end. Yes yes I know they are 'racist' and their leader was an 'ex' holocaust denier (which is just the lowest of the low) but they only dig up bad things on the BNP such as some of their members. You could do this for every party, every party has its bad people within it, I mean im sure some of the Labour or Conservatives have ex cons, paedofiles, thugs ect. Anyway im going off topic, but you get the point. Anyway I had also briefly heard of the EDL in the sence that they were linked to BNP and I had seen some posts of it on the UKIP forum. Like any party that actually stands up for British people they were of course linked to the far right of politics, despite not being a political party. I cant say I agree with their protests against 'militant islam'. Actually I cant really have any opinion as I dont know exactly what there about but from the name you can guess that their a nationalistic, anti islamic protest group.
To see the contrast of opinion on the Bolton protest (its quite amusing how the propaganda of both sides is shown)
In other political news, on the 19th March Lord Pearson launched the UKIP campaign which starts the busy few months coming up before the election. Unfortunately I was unable to attend, but as far as im aware it went down well, even within the media considering the BBC normally freezes out UKIP. If your interested the BBC does have a link to a short clip from the speech by UKIP's leader, but at 23:49 I can not be bothered to find it. Infact I cant be bothered to carry on writing any more.
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