Birmingham Closed On Saturday

[mushroom25]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/brum-bar-edl-kept-cops-5161016

EDL rally Centenary Square and escorted walk from Broad Street
Anti-fascist rally in Chamberlain Square
Main A38 tunnels under the library closed

unbelievable chaos forecast......

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!

[sandyRoe]

Em, if they put them all in the same bar and locked the doors the good people of Brum could go about their normal Saturday business.

[emmie]

and what about the bar owner, when the place is wrecked.

[sandyRoe]

The bar owner has already said that he didn't want the EDL members in his bar. They're coming anyway, at the insistance of the police. I've a feeling his bar is going to suffer a little more than the usual wear and tear on Saturday.

[mikey4444]

Shari...take the advice offered here and stay away. I guarantee that there will be trouble on Saturday, and none of us wants our Shari injured !

[emmie]

mickey, people have to do as they wish. I wouldn't go, but i am not interested in seeing more idiots, we have enough here in the capital.

[mushroom25]

the asst ch constable of west midlands says "business as usual". I'm not sure how much the force believes that themselves, bearing in mind they think they'll need 1000 officers on the streets, including special squads from other areas.....

[emmie]

1,000 officers sounds a lot, it isn't if it does kick off, EDL thousand or more, who's to say, more perhaps of the anti fascists brigade, plus their little anarchist friends, the one's who show up at events like this, so if it does go bad, those officers may be scattered all over the shop. Seen it here, police out in numbers, but the protesters break into smaller groups and away they go... look what happened here in 2011..
if may fizzle into nothing...

[VHG]

Funny, lots of condemnation of the EDL on here.

But nobody from the EDL has ever put bombs on buses and trains and blown people up, nobody from the EDL has hacked an innocent person to death in broad daylight.

Nobody from the EDL is building mosques all over the country and using them to preach hate to the masses, nobody from the EDL is trying to bring sharia law into this country and ignore our current laws.

When the Nazis were planning to invade this country and change our way of life we went to war against them, now we have another invasion (from within) trying to change our way of life and most people seem happy to sit back and let it happen.

I am just glad at least one group of people is actually protesting about the problems this huge influx of Muslims has brought to this country, as our government don't seem bothered.

In 20 years time these EDL protesters will be seen as heroes, much like the suffragettes are now.

[hawksley]

VHG Very well said , you deserve a badge...

[Gromit]

As the sunshine and heat beat down...

In the left corner, a bunch of thirsty drunken thugs...
In the right corner a bunch of hungry tetchy religous nutters...

There could be deaths.

[Sharingan]

I'll be sure to take an extra memory card then Gromit ;-)

[cazzz1975]

birmingham is open on saturday and there are plenty of ways to get through birmingham without using the tunnels, the original alternative was to demolish the tunnels and replace them with lots of junctions which would have been much worse, I am glad they are being refurbished instead.

[Orderlimit]

And in the middle, a bunch of lazy useless boneheads of the ironically named unite against fascism, who are usually the instigators of violence having raised racial tension then use violence against anyone including police and para-medics.

[jno]

Nobody from the EDL is building mosques all over the country

Killer fact there, I'd never noticed that before!

Go for it, Sharingan, but have someone with you watching your back. No photographer ever got anywhere sitting in the living room photographing his TV screen.

[mushroom25]

order limit, the boneheads of which you speak will be found on both sides, and are likely to hold no belief in the cause of the group they're with. they will be those "mercenaries" from "rent a thug" who couldn't give a toss about stopping immigration, or facism, as long as they can kick heads.

[emmie]

VHG, absolutely, and Orderlimit, exactly what i said...

[THECORBYLOON]

VHG, remind me, was it the Nazis who disliked folk of a certain religion and favoured those of a certain ethnicity or is that the English Dense League?

[emmie]

jno, though not so much in the UK, but plenty of them have died overseas, to bring us those sunny pics of war torn countries, and dead bodies strewn all over, thank goodness we live in a country that doesn't have that, right....

[emmie]

The Nazis under Hitler hated Jews, intelligentsia, roma people, mentally ill, homosexuals, and plenty more besides, they also had an agenda, and it almost worked, save for the people who fought back against such tyranny, so we could live in a land that tolerate those who hate us...

[ummmm]

It was pretty irresponsible to publish the bar owners opinion.

This is a group lead by someone who has changed his name to that of a notorious football hooligan...