Mr Ghulam Rabanni, the General Secretary of the Harrow Central Mosque criticized the anti-racism campaigners from Unite Against Fascism who ignored the mosque's pleas not to hold a counter demonstration against the English Defence League in Harrow today.  Said Mr Rabanni,

“All these people have come from outside the area to start up trouble in an area that has never had any racial tension. It is very sad.”

“But the incontinent expansion of the State’s reach degrades its grip. It undermines legitimacy, lowers confidence and breeds disregard. Twelve years of new Labour’s flabby-minded growth in the public sector, and the bloating of its claims on individuals’ lives, have begun to rot the whole idea of something the Left ought to believe in, and the Right do: society, and the public good.”

Matthew Parris