Leon McCreery

Name: Leon McCreery

Pseudonyms

• Leon the Brit

May - July 2010 - Anti-Mosque Protest, Dudley

Leon McCreery claims "a regiment supplied all our gear" for the rooftop protest. A quick check showed that no regiment gave EDL, Leon McCreery or John "Snowy" Shaw equipment for their protest. Someone stole and gave the equipment to them.

May 2010 - Men in Court for Dudley Rooftop Protest

"Leon McCreery, aged 28, from Stockport, and 39-year-old John Shaw from Knaresborough, appeared at Dudley Magistrates Court today charged with burglary and public order offences."
Read more: Dudley News: Men in court for EDL rooftop protest

June 2010 - Jewish leaders condemn EDL

"The far right, anti-Islam protest group, whose violent nature was exposed by the Guardian last week (and covered by the NS here), has professed support for Israel in the past and is now urging British Jews to "lead the counter-jihad fight in England". But its advances have been swiftly rebuffed by Jewish leaders. Mark Gardner, communications director for the Community Security Trust, told the Chronicle:

"The EDL intimidate entire Muslim communities, causing tension and fear. Jews ought to remember that we have long experience of being on the receiving end of this kind of bigotry."

Read more: New Statesman: Jewish Leaders condemn the English Defence League.

July 2010 - Charges dropped for EDL rooftop protestors

TWO English Defence League members, who were arrested during a rooftop protest, have had all charges dropped against them. Leon McCreery from Stockport and John Shaw from Knaresborough were arrested during the incident over the May Bank holiday, after being taken down from the roof of a disused factory in Hall Street by riot police.
Read more: Dudley News: Charges Dropped for EDL rooftop protestors

4th June 2010 - Tommy Robinson said:

"In my eyes Leon and Snowy will always be seen as leaders for there bravery and dedication to our cause."

August 2010

Leon the Brit shmoozes some soldiers, and has his arrse handed to him on a plate
Leon the Brit attempt to shmooze soliders to get him to join the EDL Armed Forces Division. He fails abysmally, and is given a good going over by some real patriots. Here are some choice quotes:

Leon the Brit:

"You know a regiment supplied all our gear to that do."

Solider:

"UVF doesn't count."

Soldier:

"... the fact that your organisation has a few ex-soldiers in its ranks counts for nothing. The same is true of CND and the Communist Party. Are you going to support them on the same basis?

Solider:

"Currently sat in a Pub outside Bristol looking over at Someone wearing a Polo Shirt with English Defence League Bristol Division on it Invited him to view this debate on my laptop and asked his views, after listening to his Ranting and Raving he did not appreaciate the irony of the fact he was talking to two ex and one serving servicemen. They are definately not the sharpest knifes in the box."

For more sterling quotes from the boys in green, read: My View of the English Defence League by Leon McCreery

December 2011 - Uppdrag Granskning:

"We're just normal geezers, from working-class estates, who got fired up with the way one government has treated us, and another government doing exactly the same. And we're not going away."