Usually a load of unchill racists wouldn't be awarded my attention but, on the streets of the city that brought you Walkers (in every colour, flavour and creed I might add which makes me totally sure that Walkers' ideologies are not synonymous with those of the EDL), the bigoted anti-Islam group were a thousand strong. Due to this high number of rampant misfits, the BBC noted that today held the record for the "biggest police operation in the country for 25 years".
Within hours, videos of the event began sprouting up on You Tube with many showing violence that ensued which included rocks, debris and smoke bombs being thrown at the police, footage of a SKY News van being primitively attacked, Asian youths being singled out and attacked by pockets of EDL members but most shockingly, the police driving away from areas that required assistance.
The following video involves the leader of the EDL delivering a preposterous speech at today's demo whereby he asserts that if a pregnant woman committed a crime, she wouldn't be arrested if she happened to be Muslim.
It's amusing that in the video the EDL's leader, Tommy Robinson, swiftly makes his illogical and unfounded point about pregnant Muslim women whilst avoiding the fact that his stupid pregnant wife committed a cheeky bit of money laundering, which to my knowledge is a crime, and was presumptively the reason why she was arrested. I would also like to note that I found that video after stupidly misspelling the word 'Leicester'. Oh yes, and it wasn't just one EDL video that had misspelled the name of the multicultural haven that is Leicester, there were loads - all with that particular spelling mistake. I mean sure, yes, I did spell it wrong myself, but at the time my attention was taken away from the computer screen as I was too busy getting blown away by Wagner's breathtakingly majestic performance of Ricky Martin's She Bangs on the X Factor. It's a Saturday for fucks sake.
The EDL are probably celebrating their 'victory' tonight with lashings of lager and, as comic Stewart Lee would assert, probably blaming the steadily increasing prices of Stella Artois somehow on Muslims and probably the queue for the toilet was their fault too... and maybe also the reason why the barmaid's in the pub wont take part in their attempted assimilation of their top five least favoured ethnicities which are backed up by out of date stereotypes that even your grandma doesn't believe any more.
However, if there's one thing to be said about the EDL, they know how to utilize Window's Moviemaker (the free one with every windows computer):
The madness of the EDL's demonstrations may be over for a while and hopefully peace has been restored to the crisp munchers of Leicester. I think if I was trying to get over the troubles that badgered the city today, I'd be in a bit of a Smoky Bacon mood right now. Y'know something a bit stronger then a standard Cheese and Onion or Ready Salted to take the edge off. Having said this, I suppose, if one were trying to make a point, one might even be so bold as to showing that the EDL turning up to their town hasn't effected them by going for cool bag of Prawn Cocktail. Yeh, you heard right English Defence league, a grab size bag of Prawn Cocktail. As for me, I dont give a fuck, I'd fucking yam down on some Worcester sauce flavoured French Fries (also made by the Walkers company) and I'd chew them up right in front of their expressionless faces.
But if we can be serious for a moment, the recent ties with America's equivalent organizations are a definite concern at the moment; the more cautious racist group known as the Tea party could be a strong asset to the EDL as they might teach our Brit extremists ways of concealing their overt far right stance, perhaps by showing them the art of masking language to be more subtly racist as opposed to their outright bigotry.
Going by what was on show today, its clear that the EDL are starting to get a bit more serious about being racist and thuggish. As labour MP Jon Cruddas noted in The Guardian this evening:
"The right has become very organised; it is time for those of us who believe in a decent progressive society to do the same".
Amen, bro.
