‘Tax payers will foot a massive £1million bill for policing an English Defence League demonstration in Lancashire on Saturday.
Former Home secretary Jack Straw, MP for Blackburn, blasted the extremist EDL for outrageous ‘self-indulgence’ in holding the protest….’ source
Another hit-piece by the same newspaper
The article is a shameless propaganda-piece– but the reader comments under it show that very many people aren’t fooled. And I don’t recall Straw complaining about the cost of policing or the massive damage caused by the recent anarcho-leftist riots in London…..