How is it nonsense ? have you ever witnessed anything like this first hand yourself and with your own eyes, if you have then you have every right to comment, if you haven't don't make up claims you know nothing about.
Several years ago i was involved in a small group known as MFE (march for England encase you haven't heard of them) and every year and once a year we would march in Brighton to celebrate St Georges day. we had to get permission first from the police which meant liaising with them. the first couple of events went off peacefully and why shouldn't they have done.. after all this was purely meant as a family day out and to celebrate our patron saint. Scotland Wales & Ireland have a celebratory day so why shouldn't we. anyway as i said the first couple of rallies went off as to be expected jolly and peaceful but the third turned out to be completely different, it turns out that ANTIFA and other left wing groups took it upon themselves to oppose us, a few scuffles broke out and the police instead of focusing their attention on them the "aggressor's" they started to get very heavy handed with us.. . now i am not saying that one or two of our's weren't flying fists about because they were but if you had of seen the type of violence being used towards us both from the police and the lefties then you would have understood why. the headlines of the evening argus the following evening read .."right wing nazi's smash up Brighton" or something to that description. it couldn't be any further from the truth. the fourth march was fast approaching and as i had said earlier we had to liaison with the police before it could go ahead, we questioned them over their heavy handedness especially towards us and the response we got back was pathetic, "we were treating both sides equally" they said. anyway the fourth march was like a battle zone, the lefties had literally thousand's out and were extremely angry as well, as soon as we left from the station down Queens road.we were being attacked from both sides of the street, smoke bombs bottles coins you name it came flying towards us... again the police used the exact same tactics as before, giving the lefties a free reign to attack us with endless amounts of missiles. a 9 year old girl got struck in the eye by a bottle. for everyone's safety the march was eventually diverted. the headlines of the evening argus the following evening read as similar as before, that we were the trouble makers. shortly before march five and after a long session of heated exchanged words between us and the police we were all given a formal apology from the chief of sussex police himself. two more marches later and we called the whole thing off for good. it was getting ridiculous. . .
I know full well the antifa and have seen it first hand. I wrote in my post about my time dabbling with the anti-fash, it was bang on those marches. let's just say there's two sides to every story eh. I stopped marching with the antifa because I didn't like the violent element that was just there looking for a fight and nothing else. Until orgs like mfe get rid of the same element on their marches, it's always going to end the same. I don't mind you calling out the left or the antifa, I've seen it, I don't agree with it. But let's not act all innocent like the right are all buttercups and peaches. They've got a long precedent and it was more than a few fists. there's also pretty hard evidence that mixed in with mfe was NF, EDL and the more loosely affiliated right wingers like the P&M, NA etc. and that was always the mfe problem in my eyes after those first two years. Tommy Robinson said the same thing himself, he might not have had anything to do with mfe, but edl were certainly heavily represented and he has said on numerous occasions that until the right disown the violent hate groups (you can't throw a seig Heil and expect to be called anything else, sorry) that tag along rather than patting them on the back, it's always going to descend to violence and the point is lost. Its a common theme recently for the right to play victim, but they're not looking in their own back yard. I'm not posting links but anyone who searches March for England can find the blog posts from these groups and their agenda is clear as day. They don't try and hide it.
Anyway, I'm not dragging up mfe history, we all know how it turned out. My point about it being nonsense is that the police do not go lightly with the antifa, it's easy to feel victimized and the argus was defo not on the side of mfe, but the police? from my point of view, they didn't give a **** which side it was, it was chaos and they were having the lot I'd expect.
And that's all I'm going to say on the matter, I oppose racism and hatred, and I oppose the violence equally, from both sides.