To tell you the truth I dont know.
The degenerates that Loyalism courts stuff like this is not exactly news.
The likes of the BNP openly recruit on the 12th and Combat 18 are very active in Loyalist communities with being linked to numerous racist attacks, not just sectarian.
Yea I know, C18 had pretty close links with the LVF (and later the Red Hand Defenders) which mainly came to light during the investigation of Rosemary Nelson's murder. C18 has been known to raise funds for Loyalist paramilitaries as well using the money available to them through the sales of white power CDs and the organising of Blood&Honour gigs.
Members of the Racial Volunteer Force (basically a C18-spinoff) also housed Johnny Adair in Bolton after he was expelled from Ulster.
The EDL are positively warm and welcoming when you take a look across the likes of the 12th where you can buy yourself a t-shirt or mug with scooby doo on it and the lovely family orientated slogan of "yabba dabba doooo any Taig will do". (For those not in the know Taig is the Loyalist derogatory term for Catholics like "Nigger" for Africans or "Kike" for Jews).
Or on the 11th on Bonfire Night where absolutely massive bonfires are made by whole communities and are draped with tri-colours with "KAT" on it which means "Kill All Taigs".
Heh, luckily I narrowly avoided the 12th last time I was in Ulster. The problem is the UDL/SDL will most likely focus on 'fenianism' and Irish Republicanism as 'external enemies' to 'British Identity' thus possibly stirring up some nasty sectarian attacks that might cause some real trouble (no pun intended actually). On the EDL forums there is even talk about how the UDA/UVF/LVF/etc have 'gone soft on the Taigs' and how the Ulster Defence League should organise rallies at Republican meetings,marches and events to provoke them into violence and show "the true nature of fenianism" or what not. While this is most likely internet tough guy talk, the prospect of the EDL cosying up to loyalists (who share a lot of similarities in their bigoted, imperialist focus on the defense of "British Identity" against 'external and internal enemies') is not a nice one. Adair's involvement in the whole matter and his association with Nick Greger and 'EDL co-founder' Paul Ray is quite serious in my eyes.
Speaks for itself really:
Greger (left) and Ray (right)
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Of that forbidden tree..."
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