hampsteadvoter

The candidates announced are:

* Linda Chung Liberal Democrats
* Stephen Dorman British National Party
* Stephen Phillips Conservatives
* Anya Reeve Green Party
* Larraine Revah Labour Party

Im sure the liberal elite in Hampstead will associate with the violent UAF/ANTIFA, to stop the "fascists".

HM

UAF isn't violent. Good luck to the Greens, I hope they thrash the BNP and the establishment.

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Freedom from the EU

The UAF are mindless voilent scum who go looking for trouble.

Look at the number of arrests and attacks on the police and damage to shops and the surrounding area where they protested against the Red,White and Blue family festival.

Wowbanger TIP

A substantial part of the UAF's membership is ambivalent towards political violence to say the least. Hence the lionization of "the battle of Cable Street" and the position of groups like Anitfa.

This is entirely within the traditions of the Left which has always advocated violent revolution and "direct action" over democratic reform (as far as I am aware Allende in Chili and Chavez in Venezuela are the only examples of avowedly capital S Socialists ever elected).

Fortunately most of the UAF would be physically incapable of effective violence against anyone, just as well for the BNP and NF because the same is true of them.

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HFTF

I would not be so sure big man.
I saw around two hundred men from the RWB assembled, after they thought the violent Labour party thugs might get into the event past the security.

All good hard working, law abiding decent men.
Like many there, they had their wives and children with them.
Nothing brings out more grit and determination, than a man defending his family from a mob of yobs.

A mob of the Labour party louts got into the adjoining field, but when they saw what awaited them, they decided to stay put and await the police, who arrested them.

No screaming abuse by these BNP family men, unlike the Labour yobs who had been hurling abuse and rocks at the police.
Just a willingness to defend their families if need be.
The police had nothing but praise for BNP members, I really think some were very sympathic to the BNP.

Jeff

Most of us have sympathy for the BNP,poor dears.

London Orbital

The so-called Battle of Cable Street is 'lionised' by more mainstream types than UAF. Most of the Labour councillors in Tower Hamlets wanted to clamber aboard the 60th anniversary celebrations in 2006.

Recently elected Respect MP George Galloway was most annoyed that he was (deliberately?) excluded from the event.

This battle - and 'anti-fascism' generally - has gone mainstream. Probably even the newly elected Conservative councillors on the Isle of Dogs were paying lip service to this anniversary of Communist-inspired civil disorder.

Independent UKIP

There was no need if the result below is accurate.