Getting accurate facts could be tricky, but some sources are saying that the UAF were kettled for over an hour before the EDL arrived in force, then the EDL were largely allowed to run riot by the police, until they started throwing things at the police. Allegedly the UAF and RAR organisers were seen to be peacefully demonstrating before taken by police snatch squads, and before there were any major events of disorder.

There seems to be enough to make one ask whether the police were acting objectively, or in a partisan fashion.

There is a rumour but I know no more that MacDonalds was bombed.