I sort of got myself involved with the EDL in Newcastle in 2010 when they demonstrated it was one of the stupidest things I did, while I tried to see the good in what they were saying to me, I witnessed things like a big, burly taken offence to and spitting on an Israeli flag and taking offence at what he called 'poofs and dykes', there was the obvious nasty racism the P bomb, N bomb, monkey noises and horrible shit like that.

I had been warned for years about people like the BNP and had been on the fringe of the far right since 2004 when I went to Nottingham to meet up with a group who called themselves the United British Alliance and again in Blackpool a year later. I actually saw a friend of mine at the Counter Demo to the EDL in 2010 and it was a mixture of that and my mentor pulling me to one side and reminded me the work I had done with The Local Authority and for people in care would have been for nothing if I got to embroiled in far right politics and made to remember the good times I had with my friend who was, as someone put it, my enemy that day in Newcastle and we go back a long way.

Today, the potential for carnage in Newcastle is massive, when you throw 2 demonstrations into the mix with rival football fans it could be a long day for the Pollis...I will stay away, been in too much trouble lately