Regular readers may have noticed that, once again, blogging has been light recently. I’ve had a lot on my plate, be patient.
Given what I’ve written on the EDL below plus some more stuff in a post I’m in the middle of writing this is my prelimary, professional assessment of their planned demo in central Manchester tomorrow (October 10th):
It’s a trap!
The fact they’re sending out Facebook messages and emails telling would-be protestors to turn up at Piccadilly train station so that Greater Manchester Police can direct them to their new meeting point only adds to my previous suspicions.
I’m tempted to open a sweep-stake on the numbers of people who will be nicked tomorrow. I predict somewhere between 40 and 50% of the people who turn up.
3 Comments
October 11, 2009 at 9:46 am
Less than 1% got nicked eh, wanker?
As for you writing a “professional assessment ” I’m sure whatever little girl it is you’re fingering in your bedsit will be really impressed.
October 11, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Well 40 – 50% wasn’t a serious estimate but I’d question your maths Frank, if you’ve seen the figures and come up with an answer of “less than 1%” I’d reckon you were the sort of bloke who needs to take his shoes and socks off before he can count to 20.
The Manchester Evening News estimates that there were over 1000 UAF protestors and around 600 from the EDL so let’s be charitable and say there were 1700 people out on the day.
44 were arrested on the day, a much lower figure than I expected to be honest, plus an unspecified number arrested before the demo, Nick Lowles over at the Hope not Hate blog mentions people from the West Midlands being nicked before even getting to Manchester. This figure is likely to increase over the next few weeks as people are identified from CCTV footage. After violence on the Gaza march in London earlier this year people were being arrested by the Met months after the event.
October 14, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Fucking hell Duncan, you get some right cunts here don’t you?
Frank O: a cretin who spends all his life waiting for Duncan to post just so he can slag it off.
AWESOME!