A list of more than 200 English Defence League supporters councillor that was published on the internet yesterday after the far-right group’s records were hacked by the activist group Anonymous.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the list of supporters includes teachers, company directors, former and serving soldiers, council officials and small business owners from across Britain. The EDL has international backing, with adherents in the United States, France, Australia, Norway, Belgium, Holland and Canada.

Among listed as financial supporters of the EDL is John Fletcher, a City of London Corporation member for the Portsoken ward. The Telegraph points out that this ward “includes part of Tower Hamlets and Whitechapel. Nearly a third of residents in his ward are Muslim”.

Update:  See also “What type of place do EDL donors come from?”, Guardian, 31 May 2013

Four men have been charged with various offences after Monday’s English Defence League march on Downing Street.

About 1,000 protesters chanted “Muslim killers off our streets” and “There’s only one Lee Rigby” in tribute to the soldier killed in Woolwich, south-east London, last week. A massive police presence kept them apart from a smaller group of anti-fascist activists, with officers making 13 arrests in total.

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A racist graffiti attack in a back street in Burnley has been condemned by community leaders. And a councillor is in no doubt it was part of a misguided backlash after the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, in Woolwich, last week.

Racist slogans were daubed on a security door, pavements and commercial bin, alongside the initials of the far-right English Defence League and British National Party, behind Cobden Street.

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A man has admitted mocking a Muslim prayer ritual and hurling racial insults during a fundraiser for Help for Heroes that sparked a five-hour stand-off with police in St George on the weekend. Lee Cousins, 40, of Soundwell Road, Soundwell pleaded guilty to causing racially/religiously aggravated harassment or alarm following the unrest on Saturday evening.

Magistrates at Bristol heard that Cousins was amongst a group of men who had come out of the St George’s Hall public house in Church Road after initially barricading themselves in when police arrived. Cousins then mocked a Muslim prayer ritual by getting down on his hands and knees in the road before shouting racial slurs involving Muslims and Allah.

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The English Defence League’s protest in London yesterday can hardly have boosted the organisation’s appeal to the wider public, even among those who share its general Islamophobic viewpoint and inclination to blame the Muslim community as a whole for the death of Lee Rigby.

Still, not everyone was put off by the sight of drunken thugs giving fascist salutes, shouting abuse, throwing bottles and fighting with the police. The Civil Liberty website today posted a report hailing EDL leader Stephen Lennon’s speech at the Downing Street demonstration and claiming an astonishing 5,000 participants at the earlier EDL protest in Newcastle.

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Lincolnshire Police have warned against inciting racial and religious hatred or violence at a planned protest march against the Lincoln mosque on June 8.

The demo is organised via Facebook by a group called East Anglian Patriots, possibly an off-shoot of the English Defence League (EDL). The force said the event was planned before the Woolwich attack last week.

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Forces charity Help for Heroes has announced they will not accept any donations raised by the leader of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson.

The EDL leader started fundraising following last week’s murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London, but a spokesman for Help for Heroes said the JustGiving page set up by Mr Robinson would be closed down and all donations would be refunded.

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