Friday 2 September 2011

Unlikely Allies

From the Evening Standard:

Tower Hamlets council is threatening to take the Government to court if it refuses to ban a march by far-Right group the English Defence League. Leaders are warning of violence if the event goes ahead on September 3 and will seek a judicial review if Home Secretary Theresa May does not ban it..."

As we know, EDL marchers tend to be very well behaved on the whole, the violence comes from the Islamists and deluded lefties who attack them.

From the BBC:

Protesters have disrupted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's BBC Proms concert at London's Royal Albert Hall... The Palestine Solidarity Campaign had earlier called on people to boycott the concert and urged the BBC to cancel it. In a statement published on its website ahead of the Proms, the pro-Palestinian group claimed the IPO showed "complicity in whitewashing Israel's persistent violations of international law and human rights".

So it's the same lot attacking an Israeli orchestra as it is attacking the English Defence League.

Here's a thought: if the EDL are ever allowed to hold a rally, wouldn't it be fun if they invited along an Israeli orchestra to perform at the end, just to show a bit of solidarity? We can get the people from Rye Playland to do the security.

3 comments:

Robin Smith said...

Are you saying that good behaviour is intimidation?

Am surprised that a great mind like yours could miss this.

Racism is very silly. It means lower wages and higher prices for all of us.

Mark Wadsworth said...

RS, what on earth harm have the Israeli Philharmonic done to anybody? And whether or not you agree with the EDL, why aren't they allowed to hold marches? There are only a few hundred of them.

Anonymous said...

The BBC information pollution is careful to make it seem that that the EDL are the one's causing the violence. The are, as always protecting their far left chums.
Another reason to turn of the TV-Tax and go to subscription.