Edinburgh Anarchists

EDL reveal their Scots roots by pissing on English Heritage

We owe the English Scottish Defence League an apology. We thought that they were just a bunch of racist football hooligans who wanted to see some rain and hills, so transplanted their wannabe-race war to Glasgow last month.

We thought the fact that their SDL hoodies have the English St Georges Cross on them was proof that they had no links here.

However. The photo here proves us wrong. It shows “English” patriots pissing against the historic and very English Nottingham Castle.

Clearly there’s only one explanation. The English Defence League are all secretly Scottish. Having got a taste for bamming up English cops in Manchester last year, a paramilitary branch of the Tartan Army set up the EDL using “dirty war” tactics learned in Northern Ireland.

Now their secret is out, claims that the Scottish Defence League are an attempt to franchise dumbfuck English Nationalism can be shown up for what they are.

My first reaction to this piece by Johann Hari in the Independent was: Dubai an authoritarian shithole? Who knew! but it’s well worth your time. The place is worse than the concrete, class-ridden shopping mall you might have expected, it’s positively medieval, but without a peasants’ revolt on the horizon. And don’t go thinking that it’s nasty because of some kind of Arabic cultural reasons, it’s an international of ignorant rich scum. Listen to these toerags:

I asked a British woman called Hermione Frayling what the best thing about Dubai was. “Oh, the servant class!” she trilled. “You do nothing. They’ll do anything!”(…)

My patience frayed by all this excess, I find myself snapping: doesn’t the omnipresent slave class bother you[a City couple who've been coming there for 10 years]? I hope they misunderstood me, because the woman replied: “That’s what we come for! It’s great, you can’t do anything for yourself!” Her husband chimes in: “When you go to the toilet, they open the door, they turn on the tap – the only thing they don’t do is take it out for you when you have a piss!” And they both fall about laughing.

Johann Hari’s done some clownish stuff before, notably supporting the Iraq war, but this detailed, enraging story is dynamite stuff.