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Braindead Fascist EDL Bozos To Protest At Chorley Comedy Gig

This sounds like a wind-up, but sadly it's true. Proving once and for all that they are fascist as well as thick as two short planks, the infernal idiots of the English Defence League are going to protest against comedian Russell Howard for daring to tell a joke against the EDL. Their hero Adolf Hitler burnt books, and yet the so-called "free-speech loving" EDLers want free reign to tweet vile racist jokes around the net, but when someone dares to put the boot on the other foot, the EDL show their true fascist censorship colours.

Right-wing extremists have threatened to demonstrate outside the Lancashire show of comedian Russell Howard after the comic poked fun at the organisation on TV.

The funnyman screened news coverage of a recent English Defence League (EDL) demonstration in Blackburn on his show, Russell Howard’s Good News, and criticised those involved.

A Facebook group posted by people claiming to represent the EDL Chorley Division appeared, promising to demonstrate outside when the comic performs a sold out tour warm up date at Chorley Little Theatre on May 17, and urging others to join them.

Set up by someone calling himself Steve-o NoSurrender Young, the info page says: “Without mention of what we actually stand against, he went into a three minute rant on how ‘thick’ we all are.

“For every action, there is a reaction. We’re going to be loud and he’s going to know we’re there. Hopefully next time he’ll think twice before opening his middle class mouth about things he knows nothing about.”

But he stressed: “Russell is not our enemy, he is our adversary. We are not going there with the intention to cause him, any of his fans or property damage. It will be a peaceful demonstration.”

Other supporters used racist terms for Muslims and made threats. However, the page was overrun by locals opposing the demo. One Chorley resident, Louie Knowles, said: “Look at you wanting to shout and rant out side the theatre while he’s performing. You’re just going to make Chorley (the town I live in) look ‘trampy’ and ‘scummy’.

“If you all want to go and make your home town look like it’s run by a load of thugs and fighters, go straight ahead.”

And another, Mathilde M. Reinbold, said: “You guys do realise that you’ve basically gone and proved Russell right with this page, don’t you?”

Ian Robinson, president of Chorley Little Theatre, said: “This is a big night for Chorley Little Theatre and the town itself with a show we could have sold out 100 times over. It would be a shame if a fun comedy show was ruined by a few people taking offence at one joke.

“It would spoil it for the audience, the hard-working theatre volunteers, and may mean Chorley never gets a show like this again. I hope the EDL stay away.”

Max and Paddy

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deluded author

07.05.2011 14:25

if the author of this article seriously believes that the edl idolize hitler, then this clearly illustrates how stupid the so called anti-fascists actually are, of course this is a typical symptom of the anti-fascist industry, that they have a bizzare morbid obsession with nazism and they are unable to even a produce a basic statement without using the term nazi

uk can`t fight back

nob

07.05.2011 16:23

dey tuk er jerbs!

astronomical english patriot baffoon

EDL Idolising Hitler

07.05.2011 16:42

Seik Heil Caxley-Lemon!

Photographer

One for Your Fuhrer... Trolls!!!

07.05.2011 16:45

EDL's Pot-Bellied Swastika Division

The EDL Love Hitler!

Where's Your Goebels Now?

07.05.2011 16:49

The other day, on Stormfront, the EDLers favourite website (many are members there), they were insisting the EDLers pictured were making Roman salutes not Hitler salutes. Their bullshit is laughable.

"Roman Salutes" galore

Those EDLers might as well come clean!

07.05.2011 16:52

Eva Brawn's Ghost

Too Many Hitler Salutes To Count

07.05.2011 17:01

EDL (WDL)ers showing their true colours......

The EDL's Welsh Nuremberg Rally

roman salutes

07.05.2011 17:14

thanks for the photos mr lees/uk can`t fightback, wayne baldwin the grotesque buffoon with the swastika tattoo is permantely prohibitated from attending EDL demos, the first photo with the person covering his face looks like a set up photo, the other photo with the individual in the combat jacket looks nothing like a right arm salute. his arm is nowhere near in the position of a roman salute, the other idiot doing the right arm salute with the tattoos will certainly not be attending anymore EDL demonstrations as these people are now being barred. uk fightback vidoes articles are like status quo songs, they are all the same,a couple of photos of a few idiots like baldwin is hardly going ruin a mass street movement like the EDL, try harder next time mr lees

lord of the trolls

welsh defence league has been closed down

07.05.2011 17:19

the welsh defence was closed down last year because of the swansea buffoons, it was condemned by casuals united, you will not see any more of the swansea mob,at demos,

cymru

yeah right

07.05.2011 17:45

of course, they are all banned, they just always seem to mysteriously pop out on every En-ger-land outing and nobody seems to be turning them away. Stop trying to fool people, nobody is buying your lies so fuck off somewhere else and stop whinging. If it looks like a nazi, talks like a nazi and sieg heils like a nazi, it is a fucking nazi, get it ye moron!

concerned of brighton

EDL double standards

07.05.2011 21:53

Anyone notice how hypocritical they are - if this was a protest against a racist, homophobic, sexist or ableist joke, the likes of EDL and theit tabloid buddies would be decrying it as 'political correctness gone mad' - now they are lobbying for the right of the oppressed minority of skinheads, to be called 'intellectually challenged' instead of 'thick'!

nazikicker

EDL leader Stephen Lennon with Holocaust denier Richard Edmonds

07.05.2011 22:27

EDL leader Stephen Lennon with Nazi veteran Holocaust denier Richard Edmonds

This photo shows EDL leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon with violent race-hate criminal, Holocaust denier and senior BNP and NF official Richard Edmonds, and with John Pater - formerly of an openly Nazi group called the November 9th Society. Richard Edmonds published an extreme right-wing magazine called Holocaust News, which pretended Hitler never gassed Jews, gypsies, gays and disabled people in concentration camps, and is the person who famously admitted on a TV documentary that the BNP are "100% Racist".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO7Iycf3n4U

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Spot the deliberate mistake

07.05.2011 22:34

Thanks Jeff Marsh for your never ending trolling - "a couple of photos of a few idiots like baldwin is hardly going ruin a mass street movement like the EDL", then "the welsh defence was CLOSED DOWN last year because of the swansea buffoons"...

Have a nice day ;)

QED

its called an english sense of humour - get over it

08.05.2011 11:10

I think a lot of the EDL do nazi saluts just to wind up the lefties because they know it pisses them off.

It called an english sense of humour. Its weird yes, but thats the way it is.
If you show a sign of getting wound up, the english will always take the piss out of it.
English people get it, foreigners won't. just like the Monty Python series.

However, looks like people in the EDL havnt got a sense of humour either if they can't take a comedian taking the piss out of them.

Fails all around i think.
People need to get a thicker skin.

anon

Howard is a vile little prick

08.05.2011 14:08

Regardless to one's political standpoint, the fact is he is a nasty little shithead – an aggressive liberal lickspittle.

Buster

EDL do nazi salutes to "wind up lefties"?

08.05.2011 14:48

That is arguably the most ridiculous excuse yet, unless of course they also went and got their swastika tattoos to upset Searchlight too, but seriously...are you honestly calling that an "English sense of humour"?

My grandfather died fighting against people who used to do nazi salutes, so I doubt he'd find it very "humorous" to think of intellectually challenged clowns are actually conducting themselves that way as a "joke"!

Anyway, what happened to free-speech...oh yeah, I forgot, you're a bunch of fascists who don't believe in free-speech, (unless it's your right to insult and abuse which you're defending). Anyway, the EDL's splintering rapidly and as with everything the far-right does it will fall apart in acrimony and violence because they're a.....

Bunch of wankers!

EDL - Enlgand's Derisive Laughter

08.05.2011 17:04

Lets face it the EDL are a spent force. They are, as mentioned above, splintering and falling out, finger pointing and accusing each other of this that and the other, funnily enough over money, just like most Nazis. Their mates in the BNP are falling out over cash too.

As well as the obvious hypocracy of the EDL attempting to silence free speech over a joke - as someone else said above if it was a demo against racist humour they most definitly WOULD be screaming "political correctness gone mad" - I can't help but think have they really got nothing better to do.
IF we are in the midst of a life or death struggle against mad Jihadists and Sharia Law as they would so depseratly have us believe have they got nothing better to do than hang around outside a comedy gig just because the comedian involved took the piss out of them??

EDL - England's Densest Losers

IHTF

sense of humour bypass

08.05.2011 19:13

>> My grandfather died fighting against people who used to do nazi salutes, so I doubt he'd find it very "humorous" to think of intellectually challenged clowns are actually conducting themselves that way as a "joke"!

Well, with all due respect, what your Granddad thinks is impossible because he is dead. If you are going the route of what dead people would think from times gone by, then we'd be able to do nothing. Previous generation considered it blasphemous to say that the earth wasn't flat. One generation will think one thing and then next will think another that might be offensive to the first or vice-versus, and it doesn't even matter anyway.

And what you think about the cans and the cant-dos of free of speech does matter either.
Its there, it exists, and your opinion of it is completely irrelevant because it won't make a blind bit of difference to it, whatever you think.