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Comment on 29th January Protest by inspectorgadget

inspectorgadget — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:59:13 +0000

The EDL were successfully ‘Kettled’ on Saturday 5th January in Luton.
About 2000 – 3000 of the most violent football thugs you will ever meet were ‘escorted’ in a moving kettle from the railway station to St Georges Square and then ‘contained’ while they listened to speeches etc, before being ‘escorted’ back to the railway station again.
Here are some points:
1. They passed several unguarded police vans and did NOT trash them.
2. There was NO criminal damage or large-scale violence.
3. NO police officers were assaulted.
4 They achieved mass media coverage for their cause.
So my question to you, and I think perhaps many people would also ask it, why is it that people such as the EDL can cooperate perfectly acceptable with these tactics? According to the perceived left-wing wisdom, ‘Kettling’ causes people to boil over and be violent.
So why not at the Luton march?
The answer is simple:
1. They didn’t ‘kick off’ because they decided to remain peaceful because it suited their agenda.
2. The organisation itself was VERY CLEAR on social networking sites beforehand that they did not want any trouble.
My view is that if the EDL can do it, student protesters should be able to as well. Or are we saying that students have more ‘anger management’ and ‘self control issues’ than football hooligans?

Comment on Our letter printed in the Guardian about kettling by Stop Kettling Our Kids!

Stop Kettling Our Kids! — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:30:19 +0000

This is just Brendan O’Neill..again.
He’s the editor of Spiked.

Comment on Our letter printed in the Guardian about kettling by Rand1

Rand1 — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:21:43 +0000

Oh dear, you’re not getting much support in the media at the moment are you? http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10164/I know some people who were a bit embarrassed by the idea of mums coming to support them banging on kettles, but is it as bad as made out in this article?

Comment on Our letter printed in the Guardian about kettling by Stop Kettling Our Kids!

Stop Kettling Our Kids! — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:54:27 +0000

This is a silly article.. is this really the only input and insight he can provide? Poor Brendan. Sara Tomlinson spoke on woman’s hour alongside him and all he can seem to do is trivialise and belittle the protests. Which seems to be quite pointless.

Comment on Our letter printed in the Guardian about kettling by Stop Kettling Our Kids!

Stop Kettling Our Kids! — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:53:50 +0000

28 MPs have now signed the EDM and we are in discussion with her on how to bring it forward which is exciting.
Thanks for the support!

Comment on Our letter printed in the Guardian about kettling by K Hunter

K Hunter — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:47:26 +0000

Am sure you’ve seen this, but anyway: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100074331/mummys-packed-lunch-and-the-death-of-student-radicalism/

Comment on Our letter printed in the Guardian about kettling by student

student — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:36:21 +0000

excellent letter, any news on katy clark’s motion to the house?

Comment on Contact and join the campaign by John Stephens

John Stephens — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:44:23 +0000

Well done, my 19 year old has been kettled several times, keep up the good work!!

Comment on Early Day Motion 1257 against the use of kettling by Mr WordPress

Mr WordPress — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:26:43 +0000

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