This is a video I published almost 2 years ago on YouTube. I'm always keen to move old content to 3speak as I never know when my YouTube Channel will be deleted.
Original description: "Going over a back and forth discussion with the Press Complaints Commission sent in by the EDL over the continued use of the term far-right."
I'm sharing this now because today word comes that Brendan O'Neill, a well renowned writer and journalist, has fought a battle with the Independent far-left, progressive blog (formerly a Newspaper) because they've decided he is now part of the far-right. He isn't. Just as Tommy Robinson and the EDL were not far-right a decade ago. And Tommy has fought the the label but once it stuck, it stuck.
I managed to get the Daily Mail to at least acknowledge that the only reason they called the EDL and Tommy "far-right" was because everyone else did. They couldn't come up with any evidence or reasoning as to why they warranted that description.
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The EDL were originally a 'Civic' group and this is almost always ignored by the press and the general public. As time progressed the group altered (not all for the better) but in many ways those who still proclaim their respect for what the EDL began as represent a huge swath of our society who today are underrepresented and do not have a voice in our modern
progressivesociety.Thanks but I worked within Pages and have something coming soon that looks much better.
Thank you for the vote. I intended my comment as just a statement of agreement.I may be reading your reply incorrectly but I would not be so bold as to think it could be used elsewhere, so sorry if it came across that way.
That was completely the wrong reply for your thread and comment! No idea where the right one went but I said something to the effect of the EDL were vaguely going in the right direction but whenever Tommy got sent to prison things went off course. The fact that the media kept telling everyone they were a party of Nazis, tended to attract the Nazis!