Sep 2014 - my london diary

	EDL London March & Rally Downing St & Trafalgar Square, London. Sat 20 Sep 2014
	The EDL moved a couple of large banners to try and screen the speaker and some of the audience from photographers.I had to move further back and use a long lens to take pictures. John Banks holds up a well-thumbed copy of the Quran during his lengthy speech. In which I wondered what he made of the Bible, which has some pretty odd passages in it too, particularly in parts of the Old Testament. Ones we don't often read, and certainly don't form any basis for action by Christians. There were police all along on the pavement and another long line down the middle of Whitehall The other side of a heavily tattoed head
	Paul Weston speaking - but by this time I'd had enough of working through the gaps and insults and decided to leave Back at the counter-demonstration there was no antagonism towards photographers, not attempt to stop the press working Further away from the EDL was a small group of Antifa with a banner
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