Lots of speculation on Monday about the non-arrest of Tommy Robinson aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon at Luton Airport when he arrived back in the UK on Sunday night.

One press report suggested that the delayed arrest warrant issued against him in August had been triggered. If so, it’s inexplicable that he would not have been detained. But the arrest warrant was issued on the basis that it would be activated on 2 October if he hadn’t indicated to the court by then that he would attend his Contempt hearing on 28 October. The most likely explanation is that this is exactly what he’s done, and he’s returned to the UK safe in the knowledge that he wouldn’t be dragged straight off to prison.

Filmed relaxed and laughing (see picture) in the passport queue at Luton he actually says at one point “I ain’t getting nicked”. And his tweeted ‘surprise’ at not being held was accompanied, of course, by an immediate appeal for money for his nasal …sorry ‘legal fund’.

Interestingly, also travelling with him back from Benidorm were Stan Robinson and the convicted fraudster Dan Morgan, two UKIP stalwarts from Llanelli, south Wales, who had been visiting Yaxley-Lennon in Spain.

Robinson (right) is UKIP’s Spokesman for Wales and a member of the party NEC. In July he was their General Election candidate in Llanelli. A trade union hater, he was a member of the right-wing Freedom Association in the 1970s and took part in their trade union busting Operation Pony Express, which helped break the (mainly) Asian women workers’ strike at Grunwicks Film Processing Laboratories. (Ironically, both UKIP and Yaxley-Lennon now make a point of claiming to speak for the working class).

Dan Morgan (left) was last year convicted of involvement in what the trial judge called “a deliberate planned fraud carefully structured and fraudulent from its inception”. Hundreds of elderly people on low incomes were swindled out of their savings. Morgan was UKIP’s candidate for election to the Welsh Senedd in 2021 and would have been a general election candidate this year were it not for the fraud conviction.

Together, Robinson and Morgan run the so-called ‘Voice of Wales’, a vurulently right-wing video blog, now banned from You Tube.

A few days before his return, Yaxley-Lennon disclosed that he wanted to establish closer links up between his so-called ‘cultural movement’ and UKIP. He said had been in touch with “the lads” (Chairman Ben Walker and Leader Nick Tenconi) and will be talking to them when he got back to the UK.

If he manages to stay out of jail…