The Left Behind: What makes young people join the far right? - BBC Three

A plant pot flies up into the air and seems to hang there, just for a moment, before it comes crashing down amid 300 English Defence League (EDL) supporters making their way through Walthamstow in east London. It's September 2012, and a large group of counter-protesters – some reports suggest there were thousands – block the route of the march. As the police struggle to keep the two groups apart, objects fly between them. The EDL make their way past the terraced houses and eventually gather in a back street, where they are stopped by the police.

Just up the road, hundreds of counter-protesters have broken through police lines, reportedly hurling bricks at EDL leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – also known as Tommy Robinson – who is waiting, with a sound system and a gazebo decked in EDL flags, for the march to arrive. The march never reaches him. The police divert the EDL crowd back through the suburbs of Walthamstow to the tube station they arrived at. As they are slowly escorted through the streets, jubilant youths celebrate their departure on the roof of a block of flats.