Oh Tommy - Back In The UK

Having left the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom for a spell in Cuba, Stephen Yaxley Lennon, who styles himself Tommy Robinson, eventually arrived in Spain, still having not paid up after he lost a libel action brought by a young refugee whom Lennon had persistently and deliberately lied about. He was also in breach of a Stalking Prevention Order.

So what would a sensible fugitive from justice do in these circumstances? What would someone wanting to lie low and not bring attention to himself have done? What would Nietzsche have done? Sadly for Lennon, he does not operate at that intellectual level, and as a result, anyone who wanted to know, including the legal profession and the cops, knew where he was.

The Great Man has been in residence at a property in the area of El Albir, which is on the Mediterranean coast between Benidorm and Altea. In other words, in an area teeming with the kinds of British tourists who would be most likely to recognise him. So, had the courts wanted to have him lifted and extradited back to the UK, they would have had no problem finding him.

Lennon may have thought that, because the UK is no longer part of the EU, this would have made him safer. But, as Captain Blackadder might have observed, there was only one thing wrong with this idea - it was bollocks. In any case, the authorities will not need to lift a finger to pursue Lennon, as he is due in court next Wednesday, and it looks like he will be there.

So what of the court appearance? Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles has explained “Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) is back in court this week trying to overturn a Stalking Prevention Order issued against him for harassing a journalist from a national newspaper who was writing an article accusing him of spending supporter donations on drugs and prostitutes”.

HnH never said peep about much of Lennon’s harassment, including his two visits to my house in the dead of night, but good to have them fully awake this time. Do go on: “he turned up at a journalist’s house at 10.30pm on a Sunday evening and threatened to release highly malicious - and false - information about the journalist’s partner unless the article was withdrawn”.

There was more. “His vitriol against the journalist has - predictably - led to a barrage of angry abuse from his supporters, including one comment that … he should put a contract out on the said journalist … That Lennon has - once again - totally disregarded a court judgement surely isn’t going to put him in a good position for his appeal”. HnH will brief the authorities before the appeal.

Meanwhile, The Great Man gives the impression that he is going to not only win the day, but also pick up in the UK where he left off. To this end, he has released a short video where he tells “English Defence League reunion … which city shall we hit … comments underneath … we’re coming back with a bang [laughs] just when you thought you’d got rid of us”.

Thus Lennon gave every anti-fascist in the UK advance warning that their presence, should they be able to spare the time and be able to travel, will be required, perhaps at short notice. We have quite enough hatred in the world right now, without the EDL being exhumed merely to satisfy the flabby and insecure ego of a serial lawbreaker with a victimhood complex.

Moreover, there is the small matter of all that money Lennon has managed to avoid paying after his libel loss. So that’s potentially someone else who may be waiting for him. What will happen? For those who Lennon and his pals have terrorised over the years, there is only one outcome where they will feel more safe, more able to go about their lives, and more free from stress.

And that would be an outcome where Lennon is handed a custodial sentence. Sent to prison. Banged up down the Scrubs, although perhaps not doing a handful on The Moor. Where Lennon will have the benefit of playing the victim, conning his supporters out of money, pretending that the Scary Muslims™ are ganging up on him, and otherwise feeling sorry for himself.

Another little Wild West Show deserves to come to an end. That is all.

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