Well, wasn't Sunday evening fun? Oh yes indeedy. Having to wait up until 2.30am until you finally get the result in that that odious "human" shit Griffin has been elected to the European parliament. Yep, that was certainly worth waiting up for. This of course means that even at 2.30am you can't sleep, so that you really feel great in the morning.
Even though I could have fallen asleep as soon as I got in from work later that day, I was still able to force myself to go to the demo in Picaddilly gardens. Despite the fact that it had only been called the day before there were many hundreds of people there. The crowd was young, angry. Through out the demo and the speakers you could feel the sense of urgency in this demo. People wanted to do something. The following day there was a organising meeting for Unite Against Fascism with about 100 in attendance. The numbers were so great that we struggled to get everyone in, even with people sat on the floor and window sills. "This movement is going to need a bigger room," I remarked to a friend.
The level of protest against Nick Griffin has not let up for a moment. He desperately wants to be seen as a normal, respectable politician, and he thinks that his election will do this for him. He is wrong. He is still the same Nazi scumbag he was before, and we're not going to let him forget it. Griffin has said himself that one of the most damaging things to his party is when people call him a Nazi. it so important that we do this as loudly and as publically as we can, because it doesn't come from the media who prefer meaningless terms like "far right," or understating terms like "racist."
To be fair to the media, recent times has seen as good a response against the BNP as I can ever remember seeing before. The Manchester Evening News has been excellent, carrying stories exposing them every day. The same with the Mirror. I even looked through the Sun today, and they carried stories saying what Britain would look like with the BNP in charge, including the picture of the England football team with the non white players blanked out.
I have heard complaints from some that the tactics of anti-fascists play into the hands of the Nazi's. This argument you hear time and again, but it simply isn't true. For whatever level of sympathy Griffin can gain for himself by saying he isn't being treated fairly, is nothing compared to the effect we have in refusing him the platform to appear like a normal politician. Normal politicians may occasionally get hit with an egg, but not every single day they make a public appearance!
And as Weyman Bennett said yesterday, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs (If anyone wants to know how to make a Nazi omelette by the way, that's where you only use the egg whites).
Some say that by throwing eggs at him, the anti-fascists are showing themselves as being no better than they are. Pardon? Hmm... maybe I'm wrong. Were 6 million Jews egged by the Nazi's? Even Griffin wouldn't go that far, and he's a convicted Holocaust denier.
No, the fascists show themselves up as the thugs they are, an example being the protest outside Westminster where a woman protester was punched in the face and knocked to the ground by one of Griffins goons. This movement shows incredible discipline when facing the fascists. Did we beat Griffin up when he tried to get into Manchester town hall on Sunday? No, we just denied him the way in of the normal politician, and then he ran away.
They shall not pass, and we will stop them through the building of a mass movement.
And I'm not too scared about life in Britain right now. Fighting against the Nazi's should never be considered an automatic thing (how on earth did we let the scumbags get 55 councillors nationwide??), but we have a great movement to fight them. Also, the new series of Big Brother has been on but it was only today, and only once, that I've heard it being discussed.
And I've heard it might be cancelled because PEOPLE HAVE STOPPED WATCHING IT!! If this is true, and we have life without Big Brother, then I'm proud to British! Although we cannot stop fighting until Britain's got Talent is off the air as well! Brothers and Sisters, Unite!!
Seriously though, I can't be the only one sickened by this parading of deluded individuals, including the genuinely mentally ill. What the hell is going on? Voting in this country starts to resemble the 1930's, and our entertainment has gone back to the Victorian age!
Hey, you know what?... I feel a little better now. I've got such a level of confidence in the anti-fascist movement that I've been able to go back to pointless grumbling about what's on TV. Which is strangely comforting, it must be said.
