by Jonathan Warren
Entering the municipality of Dudley yesterday was like entering a ghost borough, an almost militarised ghost hamlet. More than half the roads in the city nucleus were closed, with observe manning the roadblocks. As we made our way to where the English Screen In collusion with recuperate was due to be held we walked background rows of boarded up shops. The marketplace that should have been doing a roaring business on a sane Bank Festival weekend was empty.
The EDL were assembling on a dual carriageway by a hair's breadth face the hamlet middle, both sides had been closed to admit them to enlarge on one side, with control vans lining up alongside them on the other. When we arrived at around noontime there were around 200, mostly neighbourhood, protesters. None were wearing the accustomed EDL hoodies and a troublemaker of oversee stood by, whilst more sat in their vans, watching.
Over the next two hours their numbers swelled, with coaches arriving from all over the wilderness, they arrived in convey, each led by several police outriders and two or three regulate vans behind. As each set of coaches arrived the chants grew louder, along with the typical ‘E, E, EDL’, ‘I’m English ’til I die’ and ‘Muslim bombers, off our streets’ I also heard the chants which the EDL website asks not to be sung at protests ‘Allah, Allah, who the f*ck is Allah?’ and ‘Allah is a paedo’.
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