by New Worker correspondent
THE ISLAMPOHOBIC English Defence League last Saturday
organised its women’s section, known as its “Angels” to present a petition to Downing
Street calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to retract the
remark he made when he described the EDL as “the sickest of all”.
Around 50 EDL women
and double that number of EDL men gathered in and around the Red Lion in
Whitehall – but so did a counter demonstration organised by Unite Against
Fascism and that outnumbered the EDL about three-to-one.
A handful of the EDL
women were allowed into Downing Street to present the
petition – but not their chief organiser – she had forgotten to bring proof of
identity.
The petition
attracted 780 signatures on the web site (though at least one person signed it
five times and a quite a few including “Adolf Hitler” and “Eva Braun” are
clearly spoofs).
After presenting the
petition the EDL supporters moved off to a brief rally outside the headquarters
of the Liberal Democrat Party.
One group of women
taking part in the counter-demonstration told me that they had been attacked by
a group of male EDL supporters on their way to the protest for carrying an
anti-EDL placard. Police stepped in and prevented anything further developing.
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