Name: EDL Angels.
Age: Various.
Appearance: White, with anger.
Aha! I saw what you did there. That's a Significant Comma, isn't it? Like the one that makes "eats, shoots and leaves" so hilariously different from "eats shoots and leaves"? It might be. Can we just get on with the description?
If we must. Also female. Usually found in the company of angry white men.
That sounds like an editorial meeting at the Daily Mail. No wonder they are cross. Actually, they blame their rage on some very specific sources: Muslims. And David Cameron.
You'd better explain half of that. You've heard of the English Defence League?
The one founded by a former BNP member … Correct.
… who has just left it because it was attracting too many "goose-stepping white pride morons"? Correct again. "Angels" are what the EDL calls its female members.
Whoa, there! There are ladies in that bunch of bigots? We call them "women" in the Guardian. And, as its website insists, the EDL is "an inclusive movement dedicated to peacefully protesting against Islamic extremism". It even claims to have Jewish and LGBT divisions.
Is there chance of these self-proclaimed celestial beings exerting some kind of civilising effect? Don't hold your breath. Although the YouTube video EDL Angels suggests they spend all their time gurning at cameras and making Churchillian V-signs, earlier this year two "angels" from Plymouth, Hayley Wells and Kelly Watterson, were convicted of taking part in a religiously aggravated attack on a Kurdish family. According to a witness, the drunken mob threw glass objects and shouted at one man to "go back to his own country".
Very uplifting. But what have the Angels got against Cameron? Apart from the obvious? He dared to insult the EDL in a speech in 2011. As well as demonstrating outside Downing Street, the league's "wives, mothers, aunts, grandmothers etc" responded by setting up an online petition claiming "EDL Angels are not sick". It got a grand total of 801 signatures.
That's not terribly impressive, is it? It would only be 799 without "Adolf Hitler" and "Eva Braun".
Don't say: They're women of conviction!
Do say: They're women with convictions.
