The Bradford West MP George Galloway welcomed the decision to ban marches by the English Defence League in London at the weekend and called for the Home Secretary to permanently bar the ultra-right wing group from demonstrating its race hate on the streets of Britain.
'Congratulations to policing minister Damian Green and Home Secretary Theresa May for clamping down on these neo-Nazi thugs. This needs to go further,' he said, 'ending these parades which are hugely costly, where the number of police involved dwarfs the number of marchers, marchers whose sole aim is to jackboot through largely Muslim communities in an effort to provoke a violent reaction. Free speech has limits and carries responsibilities. Clearly Green and May understand and respect that, unlike the cut-rate gauleiters of the EDL.'
Galloway contrasted the two ministers' brave actions with that of former West Yorkshire Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison, who allowed an EDL march to go ahead in Dewsbury in June despite protests from him and other local MPs. 'That march cost the taxpayer £500,000, just so a small bunch of morons could spit their bile at anyone with a slighter darker skin. Hopefully now that Bettison has gone we will have a slightly more progressive outlook from his successor, but better still a decision from Westminster that the goose-stepping days of the EDL are over.'
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