A small thing, but interesting
There was a demonstration in Dover today. A group turned out to support the truck drivers who have the extremely unfun job trying to move goods from Calais to Dover without arriving covered in illegal immigrants, like a mama ‘possum.
The group protesting illegal immigrants is described as “far right” for no obvious reason except they always are described that way. The counter protesters who turned up are always described as “anti fascist” — which is the way they choose to describe themselves. If those twits get to self describe, shouldn’t the ‘far right’ people get to do the same? They’d probably rather be described as patriots or something, don’t you think?
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) are a buncha Occupy-style peripatetic thugs, by the way. It looks like they outnumbered the righties, and it looks like the cops outnumbered them both. So this was not a big deal. A little deal. An interesting little deal that shows some of the cracks forming in our multicultural society.
The report speaks blandly of “arrests”. Eyewitnesses (scroll down to the comments) said all the violence and all the arrests were from the UAF types. Also note the way the votes are going on the comments.
Anyone can vote, by the way. You don’t have to register. Go on, try it! It’s fun!
Posted: January 26th, 2015 under britain, personal, politics.
Comments: 16
Comments
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 26, 2015, 10:42 pm
I get a little passive-aggressive thrill out of up- and down-voting comments.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 26, 2015, 11:03 pm
This article wasn’t nearly as much fun as I expected from the headline.
Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: January 26, 2015, 11:12 pm
Massive transformer? Like if Michael Moore could turn into a 6000lb loaf?
Comment from Sigivald
Time: January 27, 2015, 12:18 am
I hate a Nazi like the Devil, but … the “anti-Fascist” groups were colonized/funded/taken over by the Communists before I was born (and that was before cable TV!).
Some things never change; they’re still Communists now.
Comment from gulliblepratt
Time: January 27, 2015, 3:17 am
I would have thought you’d post the Marmie kerfuffle
Comment from Oceania
Time: January 27, 2015, 3:49 am
So what to do with all the illegals in the UK?
bang bang!
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: January 27, 2015, 4:07 am
The police are wearing those yellow day-glo jackets, just like on TV! :+)
Comment from J.S.Bridges
Time: January 27, 2015, 6:05 am
…if Michael Moore could turn into a 6000lb loaf?
What?…From the (utterly useless) 5000lb. loaf he is presently?
I think that counts as “augmentation”, not “transformation” – and a very nasty business it would be, indeed – not to be undertaken lightly…
(DYSWIDT?)
Comment from mojo
Time: January 27, 2015, 6:28 am
Unruly chavs and thugs?
Better call Milliband.
Comment from dissent555
Time: January 27, 2015, 6:34 am
Anyone can vote, by the way. You don’t have to register. Go on, try it! It’s fun!
Heh! Sounds like Cook County, IL.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: January 27, 2015, 1:24 pm
I’m sorry Stoaty, to go off topic, but I have an odd question to ask. Cowlicks—those funny, swirling locks of hair that are hard to tame—what do the English call cowlicks?
Comment from weasel tablet
Time: January 27, 2015, 3:21 pm
Uncle B doesn’t think they have one, Deborah. And I never mind threads going off topic.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: January 27, 2015, 4:12 pm
Thanks, Stoaty. I did find what I was searching for—trichoglyph is the scientific word. But apparently “cowlick” is very English, thanks to Dr. Richard Haydocke (1570 ca.-1640 ca.) who was translating an article about art written in Italian, and chose to call a hair whorl a cowlick.
Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: January 27, 2015, 7:02 pm
From the (utterly useless) 5000lb. loaf he is presently?
Hey kids! Here’s a toy that instantly transforms from a stupid sack of shit into a fat babbling moron & back again at the push of a button! & unless you get really lucky, you’ll end up paying for it, too.
Comment from JuliaM
Time: January 31, 2015, 8:00 am
Oooh, I totally missed this story in MSM AND on Twitter!
Comment from Little Black Sambo
Time: February 8, 2015, 4:24 pm
When young (in England) I certainly heard ‘cowlicks’ being spoken of in connection with Hitler and Bill Haley.
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