How does one link to a chat group prove this either way?

If the squaddies were bigging-up the EDL the Fash would be hopping up and down with joy!

Army comments on the EDL ...

"If you want to be thought of by any sane minded member of the Armed Forces as a racist bigoted pillock, then crack on and join them!"

"The Armed Forces can march down any street with pride, the EDL with disgrace and scorn"

"I am English and proud. But the day I even give these bunch of chavs the time of day, is the day you have my full permission to beat me to death with a vuvuzela"

"Although I may share some of their sentiments, I get the impression that most of them have only just mastered the art of walking and talking at the same time"

"Either bnp or edl is completely incompatible with basic military values and standards and to think it would be possible to have a guy like that watching your back with thoughts like them in his head!... thank fuck these guys are in a minority who think that way"

"Scumbags"

"They simply come across as racist bigotted football thugs who will quickly turn vile on those they claim to support the moment you disagree with them. Disagree and you are immediatly a traitor, coward and peodo. Don't think for one moment that they are watered down BNP ... they are full metal jacket neo nazis"

"Division? Do you mean half a dozen idiots?"

"I think you will find that the majority of people on here (the vast majority of whom are British Army or ex-serving) do not believe what the EDL or, under the surface, the BNP, stand for"

"The vast majority are unemployed scum"

"So we are all agreed then ? Bunch of cnuts , more to be pitied than scolded ....or ..and this would be my personal preference to be booted squarely in the bollox whenever they are encountered? Good, then shall we move on and stop giving these pondlife airtime?"

While virtually the only guy who actually defends the EDL answers "yes" to the charge that he's actually a member, to which the reply is "So Roy, you're a plant - you come on to Arrse (army forum) and invite a discussion of the EDL and only a few posts later we learn you are actually a member... So, are all the EDL like you, struggling with the truth and prepared to treat Arrsers like gullible idiots? EDL look disorganised, mendacious and nasty. So fcuk off."

"That's your first post on this subject. Then you admit you are a member and you start telling everybody what a worthwhile cause and how good they are defending the english way of life. Not exactly an upfront an honest approach is it? In other words, you are on a fishing trip! It's pretty clear from all the publicity on the television and the papers what the EDL is about. Baiting and inflaming the situation until violence starts and people get hurt. In Germany in the 30's, they called them the Brownshirts."

Army comments on the EDL ...

"Becoming a member of the EDL is incompatible with being a member of the armed forces. Disciplined Soldiers are above this sort of crap"

"No-one in the EDL works therefore they have no place of duty. No-one in the EDL has an education"

"'There's nothing English about the EDL"

"Thanks for that Roy. Now f*ck off"

"Is there a mainstream of fat football hooligan thugs?"

"Mouth-breathing knuckle draggers"

"EDL are nothing more than racist football fans under a different guise. Don't believe the whole public face, cleverly designed (?) to make you think that they are looking out for the interests of our great (?) Nation, whilst being persecuted by Islamic fundamentalists, they are simply thugs looking for a fight"

"They are on an outrage bus with square wheels and sugar coated shit for fuel! Going Nowhere"

"The EDL and the British Army are completly incompatable. It's the likes of you we are fighting against"

Don't publicise the EDL. End the occupation of Afghanistan.