Count the Days Until Tommy Robinson is Killed by the "State"

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"far-right"

LMFAO

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Third Ukip MEP quits over party's courtship of Tommy Robinson

Patrick O’Flynn says leader Gerard Batten is steering party to the far right ‘without any mandate’
Another senior Ukip member has left the party over the leader Gerard Batten’s decision to appoint the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson as an adviser and take the party in a hard-right direction.

Ukip’s former economics spokesman Patrick O’Flynn is the third MEP to leave in two months over Batten’s anti-Islam views and policies. Flynn said he would join the remnants of the Social Democratic party (SDP), which is now pro-Brexit.

Batten, who became Ukip leader in February after the disastrous tenure of Henry Bolton, has described Islam as “a death cult” and proposed policies including screening of immigrants from Islamic countries, and Muslim-only prisons.Such views prompted two other MEPs, William Dartmouth and Bill Etheridge, to quit in protest. In a statement on his website, O’Flynn said the final straw for him had been Batten’s “apparent and growing fixation with Tommy Robinson”.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is the founder of the far-right English Defence League (EDL), an anti-Muslim street movement. He has recently restyled himself as a campaigner against sexual grooming gangs.

After Ukip’s national executive delayed moves to allow Robinson to join the party – as a former member of the EDL he is barred under current rules – Batten appointed him last week as an adviser on grooming gangs and prisons.

O’Flynn said the delay had been intended so the party could instead focus on “making a broad offer to Brexit voters disillusioned by the betrayal of Brexit by establishment parties”.He said: “Instead, at this vital stage of the battle for Brexit, he has done the opposite, appointing Robinson as his policy adviser and announcing a plan for Ukip to be centrally involved in a mass demonstration being planned by Robinson on the issue of Brexit. This is despite the last two street demonstrations attended by Gerard ending up with some demonstrators engaging in very ugly scenes.”

He added: “Without any mandate from the membership or the party’s elected ruling body to go down this path, Gerard is transforming what Ukip stands for and offers to voters. Many longstanding party members have already left as a result.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ard-batten

Damn, when even UKIP members don't want to be associated with you...

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Poor guy just can't catch a break.
Still, nice to see he's funding Syrian school boys now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57930901

English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson has been ordered to pay £100,000 in libel damages to a Syrian schoolboy.

The anti-Islam activist, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, published two Facebook videos in response to a viral clip of Jamal Hijazi being attacked.

He failed to convince the High Court his claims, such as Mr Hijazi attacking "young English girls", were true.

Mr Justice Nicklin found in Mr Hijazi's favour after a trial earlier this year.

The judge also ordered Mr Yaxley-Lennon to pay legal costs understood by the BBC to amount to about £500,000. Mr Hijazi was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in October 2018.

Shortly after the video of the assault went viral, Mr Yaxley-Lennon claimed in two Facebook videos that the teenager was "not innocent and he violently attacks young English girls in his school".

In clips viewed by nearly one million people, the 38-year-old also claimed Mr Hijazi "beat a girl black and blue" and threatened to stab another boy at his school, allegations denied by Mr Hijazi.

"As was entirely predictable, the claimant then became the target of abuse which ultimately led to him and his family having to leave their home, and the claimant to have to abandon his education.

"The defendant is responsible for this harm, some of the scars of which, particularly the impact on the claimant's education, are likely to last for many years, if not a lifetime."

The judge said Mr Yaxley-Lennon's defence that the "very serious" allegations were substantially true had not been proved, and he had used language "calculated to inflame the situation".

"The defendant's contribution to this media frenzy was a deliberate effort to portray the claimant as being, far from an innocent victim, but in fact a violent aggressor," he added.

At a further hearing, the judge granted an injunction against Mr Yaxley-Lennon preventing him from repeating the allegations.