Not often I agree with Prat Karney, but he is right on this one.....
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Neo-Nazi rally in Manchester city centre to mark White Pride Worldwide Day
Manchester council has condemned Saturday's planned gathering at Piccadilly Gardens with spokesman Pat Karney saying it 'makes me sick to the stomach'
A neo-nazi rally is being planned in Manchester city centre for Saturday afternoon to mark ‘White Pride Worldwide Day’.
The event is expected to take place in Piccadilly Gardens at lunchtime.
Police are understood to be expecting between 50 and 70 people at the rally, which has been advertised on the English Defence League website.
The EDL held a rally in the city centre earlier this month.
A previous such rally held in Swansea two years ago eventually saw a man jailed for hanging a life-sized golliwog on stage while dressed in a Ku Lux Klan outfit.
According to promotional posters circulating online, there will be a ‘nationalist disco’ and buffet after the event.
Manchester council immediately condemned the rally.
City centre spokesmsan Pat Karney said: “All of Manchester will condemn the vision and hatred they are bringing to our city and having read some of the scandalous antics they’ve got up to in the past their presence here makes me sick to the stomach.”
The Swansea White Power rally in 2013 resulted in the jailing of white supremacist Darren Clifft, who later changed his name to Christopher Philips.
He travelled to the gathering with a Ku Klux Klan outfit bought from America, a court heard, which he then wore at an extreme right-wing music event held afterwards.
Clifft was filmed hanging a golliwog on stage.
Officers later seized a National Front membership card and a white KKK outfit from his house in the West Midlands.
According to online reports of Saturday's gathering, it is being organised by a couple from Heywood who are National Front members.
The flier refers to a ‘buffet’ followed by a ‘nationalist/patriotic meeting with great prominent “time served” speakers from around the country’.
It will be followed by a raffle and ‘nationalist disco’.
A second flier describes Saturday's gathering as ‘that time of year ... where white patriots can gather together, with their white pride flags and flags of the white nations, to celebrate the great history of the white race and to speak out against anti-white racism’.
The rally comes after several hundred members of the English Defence League held a march in the city centre earlier this month.
Greater Manchester Police have not yet commented.