St George's Day Patriots

So now you're keen for evidence to be scrutinized.

It's like football supporters with you mate - find anything that supports your world view, disparage anything that doesn't.

Cool so you will post the freeze frame that shows the umbrella hitting the horse. I will wait.

The way the horse reacts when the blow is made leads me to think it got a glancing hit, but the main effect was that the fknugget standing in front of the horse got most of the impact from the wkspangle behind him with the umbrella. So, do you think the wkspangle was actually trying to hit the fknugget and was generally bang on target, or was actually trying to hit the horse but was such a complete ckwomble that he actually ended up mostly hitting the fknugget?

Back in the day, some weeks ago now, I policed two National Front marches in New Cross and Lewisham. On our coach of some 56 officers, we returned with 26 on the first demo (1976 I think), all the rest in hospital with injuries. It was exciting. I loved it. A real adrenaline rush. We were attacked on three separate occasions, with bricks, poles and fence panels in the main, but once with ball-bearings fired from catapults. I was in a linked-arm line and the PC beside me had a ball-bearing go through the, albeit thin, police badge, then through the helmet, bouncing of the safety reinforcement (?) inside and then hitting him on the top of the head, knocking him out. I was kicked any number of times and, despite wearing shin pads, they moved, and the scars from that day are still visible. If I get a knock on my shin, it splits the thin skin and takes ages to heal. I had a brick hit my shoulder, then bounce up and hit my ear, causing it to bleed. Loads of blood. Then they put a plaster on it, and it looked a bit naff.

Later, we were detailed to shield somewhere in Lewisham. A number of my unit, but not me, were punched and hit with poles. I was merely kicked again. I had the joy of seeing one of the anti-fascist mob, who was standing on a telephone switching box, using a megaphone to direct the bricks and stuff that were being thrown at police, turn to those behind him to shout, with said megaphone, that most were landing on demonstrators. A brick hit the megaphone with some energy, smashing it into his mouth. The was lots of blood and he lost three or four teeth. I know he lost teeth as there was a picture in one of the newspapers of him, he claiming that the police hit him with truncheons. Not that a lot of us didn't fantasise about that. We all cheered.

Not one of us was injured by the NF mob. It was all the anti- mob, out to protect England from violence of the mob. Not that you'd have known it from the reports in the media.

We, the police response, was heavily criticised in the press and by the various community protectors, presumably for getting ourselves injured. The Met, we were told, had under-policed the event. The following year there was a re-run and the fledgling Met public order team used lots of officers and clever tactics to completely neutralise the NF and anti- mobs. The Met were just as heavily criticised for over-policing the event, making communities feel intimidated.

Had the anti-fascist mob stayed away, the NF would have marched through Lewisham surrounded by police, and no one would have been able to see them.

But where's the fun from the anti- mob in that?

I was at a big fire a year or so later, Plantation House going up in the City, and was talking to a fire bloke at the Sally-Ann refreshment trailer. Better food and drink than the one the FB used. He told me he was at the demo, and had joined in on the anti- mob's side.

Did any shops get looted ?

A longer version I have seen paints a different picture. You can see in the clip that there are protestors on both sides of the police cordon. It seems the police directed one group one way and then directed the other group to arrive from the opposite direction. They then blocked the road and prevented the two groups from joining up.
The ones being stopped can see many of their fellows on the other side of the cordon and neither group understand why they cannot join each other so one side starts pushing to get through.
I hope it was not deliberate by the police to provoke a reaction so will give them the benefit of the doubt that it was just very bad planning and a lack of understanding of where people were.

In that case, we're probably seeing a new record being set here - hitherto, it was widely suspected that the Bony-eared Assfish held the record for the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate, but this lot have them beaten by a country mile - although whether they're actually vertebrates is open to debate.

Six arrests including a man arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty.

Edit.

Sorry I didn't realise there was more than one video. https://www.youtube.com/live/k_j8mlMU1bw?si=IMdisM...

From 11 minutes in.

I'm really sorry but I got about 40 seconds into that video before I turned it off.

Patriots - "we're not racist but....."

No thanks.

Moaning about people standing on monuments ... yet.....