[buccaneer81]

They are disliked and distrusted across the political and social spectrum.

So is the Tea Party here.

You're just proving my point.

[1rudeboy]

The Tea Party is disliked and distrusted across the political and social spectrum? Wow, I learn new stuff on FR every day.

[the scotsman]

The Tea Party are a group of normal and decent people.

The EDL are a group with links to football hooligans and to more extreme far right groups like Combat 18 and to the racist and antisemitic BNP political party. The EDL has a disproportinate number of members with criminal convictions for football hooliganism ,GBH, assault, racial hatred, racial assault, racial harassment....

Thanks for proving MY point about the starry eyed notion of the EDL in the US.