“That thing that we believe in is our country, it’s our flag, it’s our community, it’s our children, it’s everyone around us…”

That’s the latest video message from Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) posted from goodness knows where in mainland Europe. It would all be a touch more convincing if ’Tommy’ actually lived here, wouldn’t it? Rather than occasionally dropping in for a flying visit from his voluntary exile in sunny Costa Del Trotta, then fleeing to Ayia Napa and Athens.

Mind you, that’s assuming that it’s Britain that he means when he talks of our country, our flag, our community. Considering he flits in and out of Spain, Cyprus, Greece and apparently even Canada on his iffy Eire passport, one might reasonably assume that the flag he’s most attached to is the Irish tricolour, and the community that of Ballyburberry.

Still, at least he appears more or less sober for a change. ”I ’ad a little wobble a few weeks back,” he admits, though it seems a half-hearted confession to say the least. A few weeks? It’s not much more than 24 hours since he posted a video of himself kited up in full Marty-Feldman-eyes mode, daring the government to jail him.

We’re not sure why he even bothers to self-video any more. He might as well just post a link to any of dozens of YouTube clips of cats with cerebellar hypoplasia.

No one would notice the difference.

Picture: Tommy, cleaning his coke mirror