Anti-National Front Demonstration In Southall (April 1979)

This is a small news clip covering the clash between the police and the predominantly asian community in Southall, London. The National Front had chosen to hold an election meeting in the town hall. Coming during a period of when race relations were at a low, the local community were incensed that an outwardly racist group chose to hold a meeting in their locale.
It should be noted that three years previously Gurdip Singh Chaggar had been murdered in Southall in a racist attack. In 1978, Judge McKinnon ruled that the National [Front] leader Kingsley Reads pronouncement on Chaggars murder — one down, one million to go — did not constitute incitement to racial hatred.
This confrontation achieved notoriety with the death of Clement Blair Peach a teacher from New Zealand. Peach was knocked unconcious by a police officer down a side street and died the following day. Nobody was ever charged with his murder and the jury at the inquest investigating his death returned a verdict of death by misadventure.
It is undeniable that confrontations such as this and that at Lewisham laid the groundwork for the riots in Brixton, Toxteth, Tottenham and so many other places in the eighties.
In December 2009, the Crown Prosecution Service stated that they would be considering whether to conduct further investigations into Blair Peach's death. This statement comes following the decision by the Metrolpolitan Police to publish the original internal enquiry.

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News & Politics

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• Southall
• National Front
• Racism
• 1979
• Judge McKinnon
• Blair Peach
• Gurdip Singh Chaggar
• Demonstration
• Police

[godbluff68]

@lausanne67 Thanks for commenting. This idea of Britain losing its culture is an oft trumpeted refrain. But what is that culture? Britain has been made up of a mixture of nationalities and cultures since Roman times. This diversity manifests itself in our language, food, music, art, literature... everything. It's our stength. If you feel that a culture and custom is being lost then it is important that you define what they are. Perhaps people no longer wish to retain that culture?

[DunKnowFam91]

@sixinafour I would have said "it's a bit late now" but when was the UK ever pure white??

[themrwesam1234567891]

shoot that turban guy in the head

[Aegaleus]

@worlduserme Why would they not be able to do so? They English/British have had build the greatest empire on earth before this mass immigration have commenced. :/

[VinceNF1488]

@DunKnowFam91 Are you retarded?

[worlduserme]

@Aegaleus Right, because then you'll be able to run the corner shops, big businesses and pay your own taxes correct? English make me sick, feed off benefits, take my taxes, dont want to work and then think they can run England. I'm Polish and I've taken a job that English whites dont want, then get called racist names even though I'm white. Give the Polish your dirty country, we will control it from now one. Twa.t

[worlduserme]

@sixinafour The English natives rarely own their own land, have any businesses and rely on welfare. MY taxes go to feed the English. MY education and hard work allowed me to buy a chunk of YOUR land and get one of YOUR jobs because you didn't want it. Yes. Keep the UK White and give a Polish fellow like me your country - move over, we're settling in. GO POLAND!

[NationalistFuture]

lol !

[suenaamy]

@yourcomputeronline The term "Paki" includes Indians and Bangladeshis as well, you fucking Paki twerp.

[yourcomputeronline]

@suenaamy Should we leave the Somalis, Indians and Bangladeshis alone? Why Pakistanis? What have you against them?

[yourcomputeronline]

@GaryHall78 Don't get abusive. Please provide me with a link to the statistics that you mention. What difference does somebody's skin colour make (genuine question)? Look at yesterdays rioting - there was that boy who had his backpack ransacked by a black and white rioter. Meanwhile, the Turkish community in Stoke Newington banded together to protect their poperty and their community.

[GaryHall78]

@godbluff68 unfounded??? go look at some statistics you fcking idiot. there are more non white births in England per year than white. sounds over run to me