March for England

[The Large One]

Why strange?. The post i was replying to said "Because the Green Party ( Kit Kat ) love to encourage a free and open protest in our city."

That's what happens when you give a reply to a silly post.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

English Defence League is a silly idea. Most games would end 0-0.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The very first one about 5-6 years ago was before the EDL even existed.

That was supposed to cover the BNP as well. Similar bedfellows.

 

[otk]

English Defence League is a silly idea. Most games would end 0-0.

Though possibly not if Hammond was playing, and facing his own goal when a cross came in

 

[Weststander]

Same as last year, the reports in the Argus will probably not report it though.

True. Scum on both sides. Absolutely not that the antis are normally peaceful folk who never commit offences.

They can't stand someone else's view, so throw stones. Cowards and hypocrites ... defend democracy but only for those who share THEIR view on issues.

 

[topbanana36]

I could understand if we lived a few miles away.........but much further apart is quite hard to find....although i expect some smart arse will google it.

Naturally it is NSC after all.

 

[Norman Potting]

It is mean't to be March For England, it is St George's Day tomorrow.

? Tuesday.

 

[Soulman]

Interesting link Mr S. I had never heard of St Edmund before. Are they saying that the traditional image of George slaying the dragon, is a Norman pisstake of their saint, george, killing the English saint as symbolised by the dragon?

Thanks, us patriots are not all knuckle draggers


The great problem with the cross of St George is that St George is not England's original patron-saint. St Edmund (Eadmund), King of East Anglia, has held that distinction since the 9th century, when he gave his life in defence of his faith and his homeland against the Vikings. Like St George the Great-Martyr, he was martyred in a particularly horrible manner, and his supreme self-sacrifice impressed the Righteous King Alfred the Great, strengthening the latter's resolve to hold Christian Wessex against all the odds.

St Edmund continued to be revered as the patron-saint of England long after the Norman Invasion. For example, the late fourteenth-century Wilton Diptych in the National Gallery shows him in a place of honour. However, when the Crusades really got under way (the first trial run against England in 1066 having been successful), the Norman oppressors of this country then went off to exotic lands to continue their unhappy holocaust of rape and pillage. This culminated in the sack of Constantinople in April 1204, when the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) was desecrated and a prostitute was seated on the Patriarch's throne: an insult that Greek Orthodox especially find hard to forgive and will never forget.
During their sojourn in foreign climes, the Norman freebooters and their companions encountered St George, and when they returned home, they developed his cultus in this country. But the saint they venerated was not the Great-Martyr known to Old England. Instead they turned him into a mediæval knight in armour, battling against a dragon.

 

[Norman Potting]

Maybe better to celebrate on November 20th, Saint Edmund's Day, the true patron Saint of England.
England's Patron Saint

And on 16th June, St Richard's Day, Patron Saint of Sussex (although he was from Worcestershire apparently) we could all raise a glass of Harvey's or another Sussex beverage of your choosing. I'm from Kent originally (only just over the border tho'), mind if I join you?

 

[Soulman]

? Tuesday.

Yep, if you looked through the thread, iv'e already apologised...ok.

 

[Soulman]

And on 16th June, St Richard's Day, Patron Saint of Sussex (although he was from Worcestershire apparently) we could all raise a glass of Harvey's or another Sussex beverage of your choosing. I'm from Kent originally (only just over the border tho'), mind if I join you?

Certainly will, day before my birthday.
Flag of Sussex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Soulman]

The very first one about 5-6 years ago was before the EDL even existed.

Correct.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

That's what happens when you give a reply to a silly post.

Meaning, what I posted?

 

[Common as Mook]

Meaning, what I posted?

Don't expect to get anything back other than arrogance and being patronised.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Don't expect to get anything back other than arrogance and being patronised.

Thanks for the warning. I remember reading about this subject in The Argus last year and if I new how to post a link then I would. On their website under ' Sussex is a national hotspot for protests ' headline, a paragraph from that story quotes Brighton and Hove city council leader Jason Kitcat " We are a free-thinking part of the country and it is positive we have so many demonstrations". If by me making reference to a quote is silly, then I apologise to you TLO.

 

[The Large One]

Thanks for the warning. I remember reading about this subject in The Argus last year and if I new how to post a link then I would. On their website under ' Sussex is a national hotspot for protests ' headline, a paragraph from that story quotes Brighton and Hove city council leader Jason Kitcat " We are a free-thinking part of the country and it is positive we have so many demonstrations". If by me making reference to a quote is silly, then I apologise to you TLO.

You gave a response to the question 'why do the EDL marchn in Brighton?' Effectively, you said '... because jason Kitcat loves to encourage it.'

Do you really think that's the only reason (bearing in mind it's the only reason you gave)? Do you think it's a reason at all?

 

[The Large One]

Don't expect to get anything back other than arrogance and being patronised.

... and there goes my irony-o-meter.

 

[Soulman]

Well this lot were not from the March For England were they.....
brighton riots 21.04.2013 part-1 - YouTube

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

You gave a response to the question 'why do the EDL marchn in Brighton?' Effectively, you said '... because jason Kitcat loves to encourage it.'

Do you really think that's the only reason (bearing in mind it's the only reason you gave)? Do you think it's a reason at all?

What I was quoting, was the fact that Jason Kitcat was effectively saying was that all protesters are welcome to Brighton, hence the EDL and other organizations keep turning up to our city and that if we were not so open and perhaps took a harder line, then scenes like those that happened today would not happen at all. As for allowing a counter protest to take place at the same time is completely ridiculous.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

Well this lot were not from the March For England were they.....
brighton riots 21.04.2013 part-1 - YouTube

Were the EDL inside Corals or were they literally calling the shop 'scum.'

Also what with the backpacks? Weird people.