The Dangers of Right Wing Idiocy

A man founds a group dedicated to fighting that amorphous threat to English values, 'radical Islam', organises marches against Muslims which inevitably turn violent and generally engages in rabble-rousing of the worst kind, then after making a colossal cock of himself once too often, resigns from said organisation saying that he fears 'the dangers of right wing extremism'.  I mean, you just couldn't make this stuff up, could you?  Tommy Robinson resigning from the English Defence League (EDL) in this way, effectively denouncing the membership he recruited and encouraged as mindless thugs, just about sums up the farce that is the extreme right in this country.  I can only assume the 'dangers of right wing extremism' he refers to is its utter incompetence.  Just take Robinson's recent attempts to intimidate the editor of an anti-EDL website by posting pictures online of one of his thugs outside the editor's home address.  Except it was the wrong address.  In fact, it was the wrong person completely.  Robinson and his cronies, having apparently found that the site in question was hosted on a server in the Reading area, seem to have gone through the local phonebook until they found someone with a name similar to their victim.  (If anyone wants to try and similarly intimidate me, I'll warn you now, I don't live anywhere near the server The Sleaze is hosted on, plus I'm ex-directory, so it isn't any good going through everyone with the surname 'Sleaze' in the Oxfordshire phone directories).

 Not only are these clowns incompetent and thick, but they aren't even well dressed.  If there is only one thing one can say in favour of the far-right in Europe, it is that they are at least well turned-out.  Just look at the black shirts so beloved of the Daily Mail back in the day, or the SS, for that matter.  (Although I should point out that the black uniforms SS troops are often shown wearing in war movies were actually dress uniforms.  They tended to wear standard field grey, Wehrmacht-style, uniforms with SS flashes when out in the field committing atrocities).  But do the EDL dress up for their displays of thuggery?  No, they just can't be bothered, it seems, swaggering around in cheap jeans and T-shirts that barely cover their beer bellies.  They really are a disgrace on so many levels.  Perhaps even more depressing than the EDL's slovenly appearance is the number of morons leaving cretinous comments on the BBC news story covering the Robinson debacle.  Judging by the poor spelling and grammar, not to mention the general levels of ignorance displayed, I can only assume that their membership has been out in force trying to defend the EDL.  Despite all their ill-informed babble, I'm still none the wiser as to exactly what radical Islam actually is, or how it threatens the British, sorry, English, way of life.  But then, neither do they.  All they want is some excuse to go out and shout abuse at people who are identifiably different, engage in some thuggish behaviour and pretend they are 'hard'.  No wonder even their idiot of a leader seems ashamed of them.