Share |  Saturday, 14 January 2012  Barking at the EDL: East
London Protest passes off peacefully  Anti-English activists
from ‘Unite Against Fascism’ (UAF) have today gathered in
Barking with a view to obstructing a democratic protest by the
EDL (for an explanation of why the demonstration is taking place
see this post by Esmerelda Weatherwax at the New English
Review). Elsewhere, soi-disant anti-fascists claim that they
have forced “the cancellation of a planned EDL meeting in a
Wetherspoon’s pub in Stoke on Trent”. Now, how would they have
done that? It wouldn’t have been via making thinly veiled
threats to the landlord over the phone should the EDL meeting be
permitted to take place would it? Such tactics have been used in
Huddersfield and elsewhere in the past. Confirmation of this
supposition seems to have been provided by the following quote
later taken from the anti-EDL site 'EDL News': "Weatherspoons
have told EDL news that they will be refused entry after EDL
News readers tipped the management off."