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From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 May 2008 04:13
The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet> wrote:
>
> > The way to deal with the BNP is the same way the BUF and NF were dealt
> > with: stand up to you scum and fight for decency and civilisation until
> > you are smashed flat.
>
> You silly sod. Nothing of the sort happened. People saw them for what
> they were and sort of drifted away from them.

It was a lot more complicated than that. The government banning
political uniforms was one reason their support withered.

The grass-roots anti-fascists have been marginalised by many, I'm well
aware. I don't hold with the revisionists who put it in the terms you
do: they were part of what did for Mosley, who was always a minority
figure and rather ridiculous. There was something else to it than that.
But I don't believe a word of the Communist accounts of the day.

> You think Cable Street was some glorious battle for freedom.

I think I'm having fun ranting and raving at the BNP, that's what I
think.

Best you don't take any of my posts to this thread *TOO* seriously.
That would be a mistake.

> It was a
> nasty street brawl, now held up by some people as a huge victory by some
> thugs against other thugs, indistinguishable from the thousands of
> similar battles in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Except that the fascists lost in the UK, so there must have been some
sort of difference.

I know that what mostly did for Mosley was the fact that all three main
political parties were against him.

So what? You expect me to use honest tactics against the BNP?

Rowland.

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