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Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Oh Tommy Tommy - Facing Jail Again

It had all seemed so promising: Stephen Yaxley Lennon, who styles himself Tommy Robinson, had produced another of his mind-numbingly tedious videos, had gathered his fans in central London, and had declared that there would be the ultimate gathering of the faithful on July 27th. He was back! No surrender, no going back! What could possibly go wrong?


What indeed. This blog has not always given groups like Hope Not Hate a free pass - after all, when Lennon came after his critics, including me, in his usual doorstepping, harassing, threatening manner, they were absent elsewhere - but this time they have stepped up to the plate and, by their actions, put The Great Man in one of those Very Difficult Positions.

So what’s going on? Nick Lowles of HnH has toldTommy Robinson has been charged with contempt of court after he is alleged to have broken a court order preventing him from reporting lies relating to the Jamal Hajazi case”. Moreover, “He will appear at the High Court for Directions on 29 July”.

The HnH feed had more. “In April 2023, we submitted a dossier of evidence and an open letter … to the Attorney General, showing how Tommy broke a court order relating to the Jamal Hajazi case … We brought to light that Tommy had aired a documentary … in breach of a court order … Our research team uncovered Tommy promoting the film around the world & interviewing a number of far-right activists”. So what say Lennon?

As if you need to ask. “I'M FACING 2 YEARS IN PRISON … Support my legal fund here”. Ah yes, the grift goes on. There is more. “I'm amazed that I get to hear about this first from a far left Antifa linked Communist hate group run by a man who you would never employ as a baby sitter. What does that tell you?” It tells me that Lennon is on the smear once again.

A man who you would never employ as a baby sitter” is dog-whistle code for PAEDO. “Antifa” is something Lennon doesn’t understand, except that it’s LEFTY and BAD and probably FORRIN. “Communist” is Ye Olde Red Scare tactic from the 1950s. And, as for “hate group”, who is it who turns up mob handed on his critics’ doorsteps in an effort to intimidate and silence them?


Lowles already has enough to fire off a Letter Before Action in Lennon’s general direction. But for Lennon, life right now is excellent: he has arrived in Canada for events in Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton. Sadly, in the meantime, he has demonstrated to the world that he has learned nothing on the subject of Contempt of Court, as one example from his feed shows.

This is potentially in Contempt of Court, and very obviously so: “remember the Syrian child Jamal who had a little bit of water poured over him, it was global news, the Syrian was invited to parliament . Every famous commentator spoke about it yet they all remain silent on these Muslims children abducting a homosexual Scottish child , tying him up & telling him they would behead him, we have a corrupt judiciary & a corrupt media”.

Lennon is, it seems, driven to make such unfortunate statements by his obsession with Islam, trying to frighten his followers with claims that Sharia Law is being implemented in the UK (it isn’t), that Muslims are going off to fight for ISIS (not easy as there isn’t ISIS any more), and suggesting to those who dislike far right attacks on them that they should leave the country.

So hung up on his irrational hatred of Islam is Lennon that he has now posted a graphic from train operator LNER titled “What is the story of Eid ul-Adha?” which goes on to talk of Ibrahim having a dream “which he believed was a message from Allah asking him to sacrifice his son Isma’il as an act of obedience to God”. Those who know their Old Testament will recognise this.

It is the story of Abraham and Isaac. Except, in Islam, they are called Ibrahim and Isma’il. The same story which is also in the Torah. But so full of bile is Lennon - and, apparently, ignorant of the Christianity he claims to support - that he goes off on one about it. And, sadly, so do his followers.

If Lennon is jailed for this alleged Contempt, he will have richly deserved it. Then perhaps he can get himself a real job. And get a life. That is all.


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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Lennon is on the smear once again".

The disgusting squit probably took lessons from the Quisling "Labour" Legal and Governance Unit. See the Forde Report for details.

Nothing new about it of course. See also Smear! by Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay (Grafton, 1992). "Labour" Quislings have employed smear since the Zinoviev Letter. Their most recent muck was slung at Jeremy Corbyn.

So "Robinson" is just an amateur gobshite latecomer.

James said...

If one were to write Lovecraftian horror story set in Britain, Tommie and Nigel, would be the chief antagonists. A pair of gammon toads whose family come from Innsmouth, and complain about immigration and outsiders despite being clearly inbred themselves.

Anonymous said...

Jail the midget for good

Anonymous said...

While not getting into all the quislings etc, that is correct. Our local mp was parachuted in for the 1992 election over the heads of the CLP who selected the same candidate as 87'. In 1987, one Frank Field, ran a smear campaign in the local press - against the Labour candidate branding him (falsely) as a member of militant. This is not only disgraceful (but as we now know common practise by Labours right) but also against Labours regulations and liable for instant dismissal from the party. No action, at all, was taken. In 1992, despite Labour's then regulations stating clearly that if a parachuted candidate was not wanted, and if enough blank ballot papers are counted in a vote of acceptance, they are then rejected, the leadership refused to back down. Thus riding roughshod over their own regs 'and' democracy. The argument that the parachuted candidate 'stood a better chance' is bullshit. The selected candidate achieved a 9.5% increase in the Labour vote share in 87' and lost by just 280 votes to a popular long standing Tory mp. Despite Fields best efforts. Since Kinnock onwards Labour has lost itself somewhere along the way...

Anonymous said...

Hear we go again another know mark who doesn’t believe Islam is a threat to our culture

The Toffee said...

...in a Baghdad nick.

Anonymous said...

You don't have any culture whatsover.

Anonymous said...

Any country that supports malevolents like Lennon, Farage, Tories of any stripe and their corporate media "news" Foghorn Leghorns....is in serious trouble.

Hey-a-nonny-nonny-mous said...

Electoral credibility, thirteen years in power, so much worse than principled martyrdom and living in permanent apoplectic outrage.

Anonymous said...

So you accept that lying, ignoring democracy, ignoring party rules and fielding candidates that no one wants is 'electoral credibility'? As is doing nothing different from the incumbent govt, offering nothing but empty platitudes, and promising to be no more successful than the last 'electoral credible' labour govt?Who's legacy consists of 250,000 experienced public sector workers lost, hospitals, education establishments, and the rest of the public sector saddled with crippling PFIs, more privatisation of the nhs, the education system left wide open for Tory madness in the form of MaTs 'free schools' and the politicization of higher and further education. The only 'achievements' of an entire decade of govt was the (forced) rolling out of EU legislation Major had refused to put in place. Elsewhere we had the same seedy corruption as the Torys, exemplified in the expenses scandal. After 2005 years govt started cuts, hidden as 'departmental budget savings', and of course thanks to Blair/Brown obsession with sucking up.to big business, 'light touch' helping to create the worst crash in a century. If that's 'credibility' you know where you can stick it. And no, as a Labour party member I never wanted 'eternal opposition', nor did anyone in the movement. No, what we wanted was a progressive govt that makes the changes the country needs, not just 'more of the same' which achieves nothing, and just leads to another lenghty period of hard right Conservatism.

Anonymous said...

A tory voter in their safest seat was asked (just) why? Answer to which there came none. The interviewer then pointed out the various cock ups, dismal policies, lies, scandals and corruption, to which they replied, 'we don't talk about that'. Private Eye is right. In too many places the Tories could put up a 400lb Yorkshire sow and expect to win..

Anonymous said...

And 'Tommeh' with his disrespect for the law, any law that he doesn't like, resorts to begging his followers to fill his coffers - I mean pay his legal fees which, if he didn't take the opinion that he is always right, he wouldn't need to worry about. Still, a couple of years inside will do him the world of good.