The Groan, where else? Where far right merely means to the right of Trotsky. Still, they wonder why Tommy Robinson became a martyr to the “far right”.
Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – is now positioned as a superstar of the international radical right, a global “martyr” for free speech and a lightning rod through which the far right intends to wage its struggle to protect “traditional” western freedoms from the perceived foes of Islam and liberal democracy.
Well, it wasn’t Robinson that made himself a martyr – the plod did that. If he intended to make himself one, they certainly obliged. The contempt of court argument is on shaky ground, frankly, given that the case had already finished and the convicted men were in court for sentencing, so nothing Robinson was doing could have affected the outcome.
No one is suggesting that Robinson is anything other than a flawed individual, but, yes, he has managed to strike a chord – and it is not with the “far right” it is among ordinary people who are tired of being referred to as Islamophobic should they dare to criticise the Religion of Peace (choke. I need a new keyboard – Ed). It is not a bunch of Nazis who have gathered to protest about the stifling of speech via hate speech laws, but ordinary people. Yes, of course, any such gathering will attract the fringe nutters, but primarily it’s people who are concerned about the spread of Islam and the establishment enabling a culture that is so alien to our own and passing hate speech laws to shut down dissenting voices, not to mention the shrill finger-pointing cries of “Islamophobia”. And, of course, we had the Groan showing a picture of one man raising his hand and then trying to pass it off as supporters giving Nazi salutes, the charlatans. And these scumbags are complaining about fake news.
However, I digress.
There is nothing wrong with being anti-Islam, just as there is nothing wrong with being anti-Christian, anti-Scientology or anti any movement or cult. And given that Islam is such a nasty political, as well as religious, ideology that is itself intolerant of much of our culture that being opposed to it is perfectly rational. There is no such thing as Islamophobia; that is merely a construct used by its followers and useful idiots on the left to stigmatise anyone who dares to express a negative opinion.
Anyway, back to martyrdom.
It was his 13-month prison sentence for contempt of court in May that, according to Rob Ford, professor of politics at the University of Manchester, cemented Robinson’s journey from fringe player to occupying “a valuable niche in the radical-right ecosystem”.
Well, yes, but it’s not the “far right” who are worried. It’s ordinary people who have seen our free speech steadily eroded by an increasingly authoritarian state and a shrill leftist mob who call themselves anti-fascist, yet don the clothing of the fascist for themselves. While many of those ordinary people may look upon him and decide that he is a scoundrel, his arrest does appear to be unjust – an exercise in political power for the sake of it. And you don’t have to approve of someone to recognise that they are making a valid point and their effective silencing by the state is just a tad useful for those who want to stifle an inconvenient voice. And, indeed, none of this has to be actually the case, merely that it looks that way to the casual observer and that is enough.
Bannon’s support for the convicted fraudster appears unswerving. After an interview on Nigel Farage’s show on LBC radio – timed to coincide with Trump’s visit to London – Bannon delivered an off-air eulogy to Robinson that described the former UK Pegida leader as “the fucking backbone of this country”.
Well, I’m not so sure about that. However, Robinson is saying publicly what many of us are muttering under our breath. And locking him up merely brought the matter to a head. It wasn’t Robinson who was stupid here, it was the state in deciding to make him a martyr. But a martyr for the “far right” he isn’t. Unless you are a Guardianista, in which case pretty much all white, working class English people are Nazis.
I am no political activist, casting a vote at an election is as ‘extreme’ as I have got. I have never been a member of a political party or trades union.
However when I was at school I was a keen debater and defender of our freedom of speech and ideas and I find it incredible how many supposedly intelligent people in the West now seem to be prepared to give up those freedoms.
I would say that I am a tolerant person, in the old sense, i.e. I ‘put up’ with behaviour and views that I don’t like.
I now find that according to the Prime Minister herself I am actually an extremist and exactly equivalent to those that maim and kill in the name of an alien belief system that seeks world domination.
Perhaps, just before I die, someone from The Guardian or the Cabinet Office would be knd enough to come to my bedside and explain exactly why the long-held beliefs of the silenced majority are now verboten?
“that described the former UK Pegida leader as “the fucking backbone of this country”
Seems quite reasonable to me.
Were you incredibly annoyed an angry when Muslims booed and jeered our troops when the came home?
When Robinson tried and failed to remove Nazi elements from the EDL he resigned as leader – so he has integrity.
Who else spoke out about the Muslim Rape gangs – for that is what they are?
The Left and the craven establishment hate him because he’s white, he’s English, professes love for this country and points out to all and sundry the utter failure of multiculturalism, and what is more how it’s being covered up.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Voltaire
+1
Spot on
Judge Geoffrey Marson, press & SecBar lied.
Some bloke once wrote that time was always ‘high time’, and action was always ‘drastic action’. Right is always ‘far right’ nowadays.