Far-right English Defence League (UK) "young, male and anti-immigration"...

[pampango]

Research into English Defence League finds pessimism about UK's future, job worries and antipathy to Islam and Muslims


An English Defence League rally in Bradford.

Supporters of the English Defence League are overwhelmingly young men who mistrust others and are deeply pessimistic about the future, according to the first significant study of the UK's most provocative street movement for 30 years.

The group says it was set up to oppose "militant Islam" but the research, carried out by the thinktank Demos and involving 1,300 self-declared EDL supporters, found many were more motivated by a hostility to immigration in general, and others expressed a growing concern about what they see as a threat to British values.

Nick Lowles, from the anti-fascist organisation Searchlight, said: "The report confirms what many of us have felt for some time, namely that many of the EDL supporters are motivated by more general opposition to immigration, multiculturalism and Muslims in general. It disproves the claim from the EDL that they only oppose Islamist extremism."

...it tells us that the EDL is rallying supporters who are similar to those supporting the extreme right elsewhere in Europe: economically pessimistic and insecure working-class men who are most likely to feel threatened by changes such as immigration and minority Muslim communities.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/english-defence-league-membership?newsfeed=true

[Fumesucker]

1. Well, one thing we know for sure...

Those young men have absolutely no reason for being pessimistic about their futures.

The future's so bright I gotta wear shades..

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. I have seen these clowns, their unemployable alcoholic petty criminals

Elevated into a "movement" by the media.

[Marazinia]

3. Because scapegoating always solves everything?

*sigh*

[originalpckelly]

4. This is their logo, can anyone say, "England prevails!"?

Holy shit.

[izquierdista]

5. Did anyone tell them....

Those words at the bottom aren't English. :rofl:

[originalpckelly]

6. It's OK...

God spoke to Moses in Latin, so there's no problem.