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The English Defence League have cancelled their planned swagger through Bolton after organisers uncovered a dastardly ‘black-ops’ plot by antifascists to disguise themselves as EDLers and attack the Asian community.

Yes, those mild mannered trots the UAF - normally too polite to ask a police kettle if they wouldn’t mind awfully letting them walk up the street, just a little, it’s just that there’s going to be a nice speech and we’d really love to hear it - were apparently planning to shave their heads, don Burberry caps and Ben Sherman shirts and go Paki bashing. According to an EDL statement, the unholy scheme was hatched in “a desperate attempt to falsely accuse us of being racist”.

The opportunistic lefties were supposedly planning to take advantage of the fact that the march was scheduled for the same day as a Hindu religious festival. The EDL statement said the march was cancelled out of their “respect for the peace-loving Hindu community”. Of course, they are absolutely right, the vast majority of Hindus are peaceful and reasonable people and it’s only a tiny minority that are violent extremists committing atrocities in the name of a fundamentalist religious belief.

Er, so where have the EDL have heard that argument before?

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Added on 20th February 2010 at 21:37 by Jb

Were the UAF there when the EDL decided to take a stroll through an Asian neighbourhood in Stoke smashing cars and shop windows? I suppose all those anonymous shop owners were radical islamists?

"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes." - Winston Churchill


Added on 20th February 2010 at 16:58 by Northumberland EDL

The UAF are a Government funded group of commie low lifes that would stop at nothing! Look no further than that idiot Martin Smith provoking and being involved in violence! Look no further than a hammer attack on a BNP member! Look no further than the provocation and incitement used wherever the EDL DEMO!

The EDL are a NON RACIST organisation that accept members from all races and religions so long as they are against radical islam!

If the UAF and far left didn't turn out at EDL rallies there would be NO trouble and the UAF know that hence why they are their to stir things!

"The facsists of the future will call themselves anti-facsists" - Winston Churchill


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