So the EDL ushers in the new year with a call for a boycott of Muslim-owned taxi companies and Muslim-owned restaurants.

Yes, that’s the same EDL whose mission statement declares that the organisation was formed to oppose “the shocking actions of a small group of Muslim extremists”, announces that their aim is to resist the “religiously-inspired intolerance and barbarity that are thriving amongst certain sections of the Muslim population” (emphasis added), and piously warns against making “the unjust assumption that all Muslims are complicit in or somehow responsible for these crimes”.