From Pat D Three comrades
From Pat DThree comrades arrived in Chelmsford town centre before the march -more a noisy parade on a circuit and back to the starting point. Unlike in Luton we ran out of people to hand leaflets to. Had 10 of the 200 left! Everyone of the 500 or so on the march who would take a leaflet had one. A very few of passers by -shoppers- were willing to take a leaflet. Remark from one on the march on seeing the SS, “pleased to see you are still around.” Other remarks from passers by demonstrated the success of the ‘divide and rule’ principle e.g.”I worked until I was 65 before I could get a pension in the private sector!!” and another loudly “I support the cuts”. We remained until after the end of the rally by which time numbers had shrunk as participants left some saying to do shopping… One member held Standards partly as a means of identification -(one of those on the march just walked up got out the money and bought a copy) and wondered about a stick on badge for these occasions.