I originally posted about Saturday's demonstration against the expansion of the Becontree heath Islamic Society into a new mosque in the New English Review. I have been a contributing editor that that web magazine since it went live in 2006.
My original report is here. These are some more photographs which will give you a flavour of the day.
We had speeches from Tommy Robinson and Kev Carroll and attendance from divisions far and wide (as far as the west country) and our own London and Essex divisions, plus friends and individual local people. You can see from the flags where some divisions had traveled from.
There were less police in attendance than at the previous demonstration and the only shop to close was the Halal butcher outside which the 9 piece band Dagenham Unity, the counter protest for this week, were dancing and playing with their maracas. The florist trading in the unit which the BHIS intend to buy, if they can raise the money, stayed open during the demonstration and several women bought flowers from her to lay at Chadwell Heath station on the return leg of the march.
Photo above, the march begins to make its way back to the departure point, a friendly pub in Chadwell Heath, which took them past Dagenham Unity below.
The long standing residents of Dagenham are quite certain that they do not want a mosque in what used to be a well set up shopping centre which met the everyday needs of local families.
We will not roll over and move away.
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