THE NEO-FASCIST organisation
Britain First (BF), notorious for violent attacks on mosques, has problems. Its
leaders Paul Golding and Jayda Franzen have a number of court orders against
them, and Golding is obliged every Saturday between 2pm and 4pm to sign in at
his nearest police station. As he lives in Penge, south London, that police
station is in Bromley, next to Bromley South Rail Station.
This limits
the range of political demonstrations he can take part in on Saturdays. So,
trying to make a virtue out of a necessity, he called a national mobilisation
of BF supporters outside Bromley Police Station for last Saturday.
Ex-BNP
members mingled with ex-Combat 18 thugs. This really was a rump and was the
lowest BF demo for some time. But the total number who turned up – around 40 –
was massively outnumbered by local anti-fascists.
These
included Labour Party members, Liberal Democrats, Greens, South London
Anti-Fascists, Antifa, trade unionists from RMT, TSSA, ASLEF, Unite the Union, the NEU educational union and the civil
service union, and Disabled People against Cuts
(DPAC) – plus some passers-by who joined in.
And the
anti-fascists were noisy, very noisy, and succeeded in drowning the noise of a
BF amplifier playing ‘patriotic’ music.
Several of
the fascists, overweight and with greying hair, were wearing a khaki uniform
bearing the word “Security”. Political uniforms were outlawed by a public order
Act in the 1930s. Anti-fascists will be taking up this issue with the
appropriate authorities.
The fascists
had hoped to march from Bromley North to the station but were banned from
marching through the shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon.
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