UPDATE: NE EDL Summer on the streets hailed a success

At one of our regular 'meet and greets' earlier this year it was announced that the North East EDL would be stepping up our activism within the North East throughout the summer months. The plan was to have a range of activities to suit all our members, including leafleting sessions, flash protests, unannounced marches etc.. The intentions for this 'summer on the streets' campaign was to spread the word of the NE EDL, meet and recruit the public, take our streets back from the left wing and stop the local Muslims from spreading their hate and recruiting at Newcastle monument.

This announcement was welcomed by the NE EDL members in attendance at the meeting and plans for the campaign were swiftly drawn up between the NE organisers.

Early summer the campaign started with the NE Angels (female division) travelling throughout the North East on most Saturdays and holding leafleting sessions regarding FGM, Muslim grooming gangs etc.. as well as chatting with the public to raise awareness regarding these subjects.
Naturally there were some people who did not want to talk or listen to what our Angels had to say but overall the response by the public was brilliant with a few even joining in with the leafleting campaign.

Next step was to start our popular 'flash' protests. As Newcastle is seen as the capital of the left wing within the NE, (plus they go unopposed every Saturday at the monument), it was decided by the organisers that the main bulk of our flash demos should be targeted at these left wing organisations but also not forget to target other areas when needed. Which is exactly what we started doing, the lefty organisations as well as the Islamic Diversity table were taken by surprise and swiftly moved on when we started showing up. What they did not expect though was for us to turn up nearly every Saturday after that and keep opposing them (which really started to frustrate them).
What we achieved by doing this was to make the left and the NE Antifa start to turn on and argue amongst themselves simply because they could not get the numbers to oppose us, this action alone has caused a lot of infighting amongst our enemies which is always good news.

Due to us continuing to put pressure on the IDC and the left org's every Saturday the police had started watching for us congregating at our normal meeting places and stop us from getting 'too close' to our targets, this made us 'up' our plans and switch from our normal meeting locations to premises at other areas of the city centre which we knew would not be monitored, and so started our unofficial march & flash campaign.

Our unofficial march & flash campaign proved to be the most popular by far of all the campaigns we run throughout the summer. Every week a text message was sent out to the NE EDL members with details of the meeting place, time and target, plus a reminder not to post anything on 'facebook' about our weekly target as we knew we were being monitored. This worked very well and resulted in the NE EDL being able to march from one end of the city centre to the 'target area' without the police constraining us or ordering us to go a different route. It gave us a chance to mingle with the public and chat with them without the normal heavy police presence surrounding us. Walking down Northumberland street in the sun singing patriotic songs with the NE EDL banner flying high in front of us with many of the public clapping or giving us the 'thumbs up' was a great experience and showed us just how much support we actually have within the North East.

We kept these campaigns up till the end of summer and only now have we had a chance to look back on them and see how much of a success they actually were. We have spread our word, changed some peoples misconceptions about us plus gained new members, and more importantly we have shown the local left wing and IDC that we are here to stay and can/will oppose them whenever and wherever we want.
We have plans for other campaigns in the near future and one more flash to finish our year off on a 'high', but unless you are a member then you will only get to know about it after we have done it.
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