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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

You do know that Tommy Robinson is'nt actually far right?Many of his political views are more left wing.
When he setup the EDL two core principles were "non racist,non violent" but far right factions got in and splintered off.He is classed as a "race traitor" by actual Nazis and far right activists.He was wanted by them.
One reason he started that group was that he was seeing friends around Luton suffering at the hands of Islamists and people he went to school with being radicalised on British streets.
He and a black friend went to a Britain First meeting but he refused to join as they wouldn't let his friend join because he's black so he set up the EDL to be non racist but to protest against Islamic extremism.
He left the EDL because it was taken over by racists.
He gets constantly slandered in the press and parts of things he says taken out of context and many believe it until they actually listen to him.
He also brings to light alot of things that the papers and news never tell us like the scale of the Pakistani child sex gang problem.There are loads of cases on going and in court and we are kept in the dark about it by mainstream media.

That's actually pretty interesting that he's disassociated himself with the edl. I didn't know that.
When it comes to tommy, I personally think, and I think a lot of people probably feel the same, that he is a guy that opposes one form of extremism very strongly. And when a person only opposes one form of extremism (i.e. Islamic) you must presume that there are racial/hateful implications.
I looked through his tweets - because I wasn't expecting to see him make a 20 minute video shouting at white right wing men - to see what he had to say about this event, and the closest he got to shaming it was asking people to compare this (presumably the death toll) to Manchester. The guy is scum. He's aggressive and honestly his stories about having multiple converted friends is either obvious bull**** or he's the unluckiest man in the universe!
Does make you wonder if this event would have happened at all if edl and Britain first didn't exist. Organisations that preach literally nothing but hate can't leave a good mental impression on anybody. Good for him for disassociating himself with that I guess. He hasn't done too much to prove he's much different though, to me.