A Right-wing, anti-Islam American commentator has been banned from the UK after being invited to speak at a Tommy Robinson rally.
Joey Mannarino has had his Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) revoked by the Home Secretary on the basis his presence in Britain would ‘not be conducive to the public good’.
Mr Mannarino took to social media to bemoan the ruling, and said he would not now be attending Robinson’s rally in London next weekend.
He is not the first person to be barred by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood in recent weeks, after anti-Islam influencer Valentina Gomez was similarly banned ahead of the rally.
American rapper Kanye West, known as Ye, was also recently blocked from entering the UK to perform at a music festival over his history of anti-Semitic posts.
Mr Mannarino, who has previously attended anti-migration events in Britain, including a rally by far-Right group Britain First, has been criticised for his comments on migration and accused of misogyny.
In one tweet referring to a case against US President Donald Trump, he said he would ‘never believe a victim of rape again in my life no matter the verdict in court’. He added: ‘All rape cases have just become fake to me.’
He has called migrants ‘third-world parasites’ and said that ‘Europe is a rape-filled Islamic s***hole’, adding: ‘Who wants to see a bunch of Moslem inbreds?’.
Joey Mannarino has had his Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) revoked by the Home Secretary on the basis his presence in Britain would ‘not be conducive to the public good’
He also previously reshared a tweet referring to ‘liberal white women’ holding up signs with the word ‘love’ and said: ‘These women are begging to be raped’.
Mr Mannarino shared a screenshot of an email he received from the Home Office informing him his ETA had been revoked, and said: ‘Today, I just woke up to this notice in my email. They have banned an American citizen from their country for no apparent reason whatsoever. I assume for matters of freedom of speech, but they haven’t clarified.
‘I will most certainly be appealing that decision and applying for a visa through the formal process to see exactly why they’ve deemed me ineligible to come over.
‘Free speech is DEAD in the United Kingdom. Absolutely dead. The Labour government has taken whatever was left of it and destroyed it.’
Anyone who has had an ETA revoked can still apply for a visa to enter the UK.
Mr Mannarino is the second commentator to be barred ahead of Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally on May 16.
Right-wing influencer Valentina Gomez also had her ETA removed by the Home Office, understood to be on the grounds that the democratic right to expression does not extend to promoting hatred and extremism.
The Home Secretary has the power to cancel a person’s permission to enter or stay in the UK.
Gomez has carried out a series of stunts including burning a copy of the Quran with a flamethrower and setting alight two pro-LGBT+ books.
She had previously barged on stage during a Muslim event at the Texas Capitol before describing Islam as a ‘religion of rape, incest, and pedophilia, where they bow down to a stupid rock, and a false prophet’.
Meanwhile Sharon Osbourne previously shared her support of Robinson and the upcoming march, prompting a homelessness charity to cut ties with her.
Robinson’s previous Unite the Kingdom march, which took place in September just days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, was attending by between 110,000 and 150,000 people.
The Home Office declined to comment.