Bradford protests
Aug. 28th, 2010 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_sunI'm watching the twitter feeds about what's happening down in the city centre now, I live in Bradford for those that don't know, but about 3 miles out from the city centre.
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bradford
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23wearebradford
EDL a group of rightwing nut jobs are holding a protest in the city centre, a couple of other groups are there protesting against the EDL.
Everbody, I think, knew there was the potential for trouble, Bradford has had riots in the past, the most recent of them being nine years ago.
There is a lot of conflicting information comming out about what is going on. Some reports are saying that everything is fairly peaceful, others that there was trouble but it was quickly contained, while there are other people saying that it's chaos down there.
All I know is that yesterday evening people were worried, shops near to where the demo is being held were putting down their shutters, and those that didn't have then boarding over the windows.
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bradford
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23wearebradford
EDL a group of rightwing nut jobs are holding a protest in the city centre, a couple of other groups are there protesting against the EDL.
Everbody, I think, knew there was the potential for trouble, Bradford has had riots in the past, the most recent of them being nine years ago.
There is a lot of conflicting information comming out about what is going on. Some reports are saying that everything is fairly peaceful, others that there was trouble but it was quickly contained, while there are other people saying that it's chaos down there.
All I know is that yesterday evening people were worried, shops near to where the demo is being held were putting down their shutters, and those that didn't have then boarding over the windows.