I was pleased to join a group of about 150 ultra right wingers at our local service. We were mostly peaceful.
The irony of decrying patriots as some uneducated mob, but happily pushing them into uniforms and sending them to fight for them when it goes tits up seems to have been lost on many. I think about those young men waiting for the off in the trenches, or climbing into bombers with no certainty of return, of all those lads attacking the beaches of Normandy under fierce machine gun fire, and I think of our more recent young soldiers fighting and being blow-up in the deserts of the middle-east. Heroes one and all. As the Duke of Wellington once said, "I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me."