EDL march in Blackpool

2,000 EDL protesters gather on Blackpool Promenade

UP to 2,000 demonstrators gathered on Blackpool Promenade today to protest over the police handling of missing teenager Charlene Downes.

Members of controversial far right group the English Defence League (EDL) met in the resort in a demonstration which saw hundreds of officers drafted in from around the north west to ensure violence did not spill over.

Demonstrators from around the UK were bussed into the resort and kept behind 10 feet high fences which kept them within the confines of the Sun Inn and Yates’ pubs in South Shore, before marching along the Promenade to south headland where Charlene’s family joined EDL chiefs to give speeches which were met with wild cheers by those who gathered for the event.

Police made eight arrests mostly for being drunk and disorderly, two for public order offences and one for possession of an offensive weapon.

The organisers of the march said the group was protesting over the lack of justice for missing Charlene and a one-minute silence was held in her memory.

She was last seen in November 2003 when she waved goodbye to her mum in the town centre before going off to meet friends.

Since 2003 the political elite in Blackpool, that is both Lieber and Cuntservatives, have done nothing to the perceived increase in crime within this country and especially from within the TOWN.
The police seem incapable of investigating anything except motor speeding offences, then it relies wholly on camera evidence. When the local magistrates court was ultimately responsible for the premature death of Blackpool man Andy Miller - so he lived in distant central Lancashire - they allowed inept and wrongful actions by magistrate appointed bailiffs to go unreported and worse uninvestigated. A spokesman for Lancashire Constabulary said that Andy' family did not report a crime and they do not investigate when there is no report. This is at odds with the thousands of motorists who get targeted each day for speeding offences.
If it takes the EDL to highlight the lack of investigation into the disappearance of another Blackpool child, then good on them. It is far more than Lieber and the Blue Rinse brigade have done along with their allies in the Anti-Fascist League.