This sounds like a wind-up, but sadly it's true. Proving once and for all that they are fascist as well as thick as two short planks, the infernal idiots of the English Defence League are going to protest against comedian Russell Howard for daring to tell a joke against the EDL. Their hero Adolf Hitler burnt books, and yet the so-called "free-speech loving" EDLers want free reign to tweet vile racist jokes around the net, but when someone dares to put the boot on the other foot, the EDL show their true fascist censorship colours.
Right-wing extremists have threatened to demonstrate outside the Lancashire show of comedian Russell Howard after the comic poked fun at the organisation on TV.
The funnyman screened news coverage of a recent English Defence League (EDL) demonstration in Blackburn on his show, Russell Howard’s Good News, and criticised those involved.
A Facebook group posted by people claiming to represent the EDL Chorley Division appeared, promising to demonstrate outside when the comic performs a sold out tour warm up date at Chorley Little Theatre on May 17, and urging others to join them.
Set up by someone calling himself Steve-o NoSurrender Young, the info page says: “Without mention of what we actually stand against, he went into a three minute rant on how ‘thick’ we all are.
“For every action, there is a reaction. We’re going to be loud and he’s going to know we’re there. Hopefully next time he’ll think twice before opening his middle class mouth about things he knows nothing about.”
But he stressed: “Russell is not our enemy, he is our adversary. We are not going there with the intention to cause him, any of his fans or property damage. It will be a peaceful demonstration.”
Other supporters used racist terms for Muslims and made threats. However, the page was overrun by locals opposing the demo. One Chorley resident, Louie Knowles, said: “Look at you wanting to shout and rant out side the theatre while he’s performing. You’re just going to make Chorley (the town I live in) look ‘trampy’ and ‘scummy’.
“If you all want to go and make your home town look like it’s run by a load of thugs and fighters, go straight ahead.”
And another, Mathilde M. Reinbold, said: “You guys do realise that you’ve basically gone and proved Russell right with this page, don’t you?”
Ian Robinson, president of Chorley Little Theatre, said: “This is a big night for Chorley Little Theatre and the town itself with a show we could have sold out 100 times over. It would be a shame if a fun comedy show was ruined by a few people taking offence at one joke.
“It would spoil it for the audience, the hard-working theatre volunteers, and may mean Chorley never gets a show like this again. I hope the EDL stay away.”
The funnyman screened news coverage of a recent English Defence League (EDL) demonstration in Blackburn on his show, Russell Howard’s Good News, and criticised those involved.
A Facebook group posted by people claiming to represent the EDL Chorley Division appeared, promising to demonstrate outside when the comic performs a sold out tour warm up date at Chorley Little Theatre on May 17, and urging others to join them.
Set up by someone calling himself Steve-o NoSurrender Young, the info page says: “Without mention of what we actually stand against, he went into a three minute rant on how ‘thick’ we all are.
“For every action, there is a reaction. We’re going to be loud and he’s going to know we’re there. Hopefully next time he’ll think twice before opening his middle class mouth about things he knows nothing about.”
But he stressed: “Russell is not our enemy, he is our adversary. We are not going there with the intention to cause him, any of his fans or property damage. It will be a peaceful demonstration.”
Other supporters used racist terms for Muslims and made threats. However, the page was overrun by locals opposing the demo. One Chorley resident, Louie Knowles, said: “Look at you wanting to shout and rant out side the theatre while he’s performing. You’re just going to make Chorley (the town I live in) look ‘trampy’ and ‘scummy’.
“If you all want to go and make your home town look like it’s run by a load of thugs and fighters, go straight ahead.”
And another, Mathilde M. Reinbold, said: “You guys do realise that you’ve basically gone and proved Russell right with this page, don’t you?”
Ian Robinson, president of Chorley Little Theatre, said: “This is a big night for Chorley Little Theatre and the town itself with a show we could have sold out 100 times over. It would be a shame if a fun comedy show was ruined by a few people taking offence at one joke.
“It would spoil it for the audience, the hard-working theatre volunteers, and may mean Chorley never gets a show like this again. I hope the EDL stay away.”
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deluded author
07.05.2011 14:25
uk can`t fight back
nob
07.05.2011 16:23
astronomical english patriot baffoon
EDL Idolising Hitler
07.05.2011 16:42
Photographer
One for Your Fuhrer... Trolls!!!
07.05.2011 16:45
The EDL Love Hitler!
Where's Your Goebels Now?
07.05.2011 16:49
"Roman Salutes" galore
Those EDLers might as well come clean!
07.05.2011 16:52
Eva Brawn's Ghost
Too Many Hitler Salutes To Count
07.05.2011 17:01
The EDL's Welsh Nuremberg Rally
roman salutes
07.05.2011 17:14
lord of the trolls
welsh defence league has been closed down
07.05.2011 17:19
cymru
yeah right
07.05.2011 17:45
concerned of brighton
EDL double standards
07.05.2011 21:53
nazikicker
EDL leader Stephen Lennon with Holocaust denier Richard Edmonds
07.05.2011 22:27
EDL leader Stephen Lennon with Nazi veteran Holocaust denier Richard Edmonds
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Spot the deliberate mistake
07.05.2011 22:34
Have a nice day ;)
QED
its called an english sense of humour - get over it
08.05.2011 11:10
It called an english sense of humour. Its weird yes, but thats the way it is.
If you show a sign of getting wound up, the english will always take the piss out of it.
English people get it, foreigners won't. just like the Monty Python series.
However, looks like people in the EDL havnt got a sense of humour either if they can't take a comedian taking the piss out of them.
Fails all around i think.
People need to get a thicker skin.
anon
Howard is a vile little prick
08.05.2011 14:08
Buster
EDL do nazi salutes to "wind up lefties"?
08.05.2011 14:48
My grandfather died fighting against people who used to do nazi salutes, so I doubt he'd find it very "humorous" to think of intellectually challenged clowns are actually conducting themselves that way as a "joke"!
Anyway, what happened to free-speech...oh yeah, I forgot, you're a bunch of fascists who don't believe in free-speech, (unless it's your right to insult and abuse which you're defending). Anyway, the EDL's splintering rapidly and as with everything the far-right does it will fall apart in acrimony and violence because they're a.....
Bunch of wankers!
EDL - Enlgand's Derisive Laughter
08.05.2011 17:04
As well as the obvious hypocracy of the EDL attempting to silence free speech over a joke - as someone else said above if it was a demo against racist humour they most definitly WOULD be screaming "political correctness gone mad" - I can't help but think have they really got nothing better to do.
IF we are in the midst of a life or death struggle against mad Jihadists and Sharia Law as they would so depseratly have us believe have they got nothing better to do than hang around outside a comedy gig just because the comedian involved took the piss out of them??
EDL - England's Densest Losers
IHTF
sense of humour bypass
08.05.2011 19:13
Well, with all due respect, what your Granddad thinks is impossible because he is dead. If you are going the route of what dead people would think from times gone by, then we'd be able to do nothing. Previous generation considered it blasphemous to say that the earth wasn't flat. One generation will think one thing and then next will think another that might be offensive to the first or vice-versus, and it doesn't even matter anyway.
And what you think about the cans and the cant-dos of free of speech does matter either.
Its there, it exists, and your opinion of it is completely irrelevant because it won't make a blind bit of difference to it, whatever you think.
anon
And we are bothered by an empty threat?
31.08.2011 06:52
Anti EDL Brighton