Tommy Robinson to take far proper protest to Keir Starmer’s doorstep
Tommy Robinson is to hold a mass far right protest on Sir Keir Starmer‘s doorstep in a ‘peaceful show of resistance’ to the Prime Minister’s ‘tyranny’.
The English Defence League founder, real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon, announced on his X page that he was ‘coming home to unite the kingdom once again’.
Robinson, 41, issued a rallying cry to his one million followers to ‘make your plans’ for the October 26 protest outside 10 Downing Street.
The demonstration will take place just two days before he is due in the High Court in London to face contempt of court charges.
Robinson has vowed to work with Scotland Yard ‘so all the boxes are ticked’ ahead of what he describes as an ‘assembly’.
Tommy Robinson is to hold a mass far right protest on Sir Keir Starmer’s doorstep in a ‘peaceful show of resistance’ to the Prime Minister’s ‘tyranny’
Protesters outside Downing Street in London in July protesting the arrest of Robinson for the ‘frustration’ of a port stop at the Channel Tunnel at Folkestone
Writing on X last week, he said: ‘I AM COMING HOME. It’s fight or flight.
‘We will fight, I’m coming home to unite the kingdom once again. This time on @Keir_Starmer doorstep. 10 Downing Street 26th of October.
‘A peaceful show of resistance to his tyranny. We will also premier our latest documentary. Make your plans. I’ll upload a video explaining all.
‘We need each & every one of you. The British public will not be bullied into silence. Let’s go.’
The Metropolitan Police told The Times: ‘It is not the role of the police to grant permission for demonstrations.
‘Our responsibility is to put a policing plan in place to ensure the safety of participants and the wider public, to prevent serious disruption and/or serious disorder.’
Robinson left Britain on July 28, the day before he was due in the High Court for contempt of court proceedings, and according to The Times is currently in the Algarve, Portugal.
Robinson was first served with contempt proceedings in June, with the Solicitor General telling a previous court hearing that he ‘knowingly’ breached the order by having ‘published, caused, authorised or procured’ a film titled Silenced in May last year.
It is also claimed Robinson repeated the allegations banned by the injunction in three interviews between February and June 2023.
Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon, attending a St George’s Day rally on Whitehall, in Westminster, in April
Robinson, pictured here at the St George’s Day rally in April, told his one million X followers he was ‘coming home to unite the kingdom’
Demonstrators outside New Scotland Yard in London in July protesting the arrest of Robinson
Robinson supporters pictured outside Downing Street in July. Robinson left Britain on July 28, the day before he was due in the High Court for contempt of court proceedings
Silenced was then shown again at a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in July this year, which is understood to be part of the alleged breach of the order under the second contempt application.
The day after the protest, Robinson was arrested for the ‘frustration’ of a port stop at the Channel Tunnel at Folkestone under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Robinson was previously jailed after being found in contempt of court after he filmed men accused of the sexual exploitation of young girls and live-streamed the footage on Facebook, in breach of a reporting ban, outside Leeds Crown Court in May 2018.
He was sentenced to 13 months in jail after being found in contempt of court on the day of the broadcast, but served just two months before being freed after that finding of contempt was overturned by the Court of Appeal in August 2018.
The case was then referred back to the Attorney General and he was jailed again in July 2019.
