At the end of October, ‘Tommy Robinson’ held his last national ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally in London. He, of course, was not there having been detained on remand two days earlier. And now he is now serving an 18-month sentence for contempt of court.  At the time we wrote that:

“Without the presence of ‘Tommy Robinson’ himself, the whole thing founders. Numbers attending seem to be not much different from those who attended in July, and were largely, and predictably, middle aged and male…

“By the end thousands just couldn’t be bothered staying to watch TR’s latest so-called ‘documentary’ and drifted away.”

Today’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rallies called for various towns and cities around the country, flopped spectacularly, showing once again that without the demagogic presence of ‘Robinson’ (real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon), the ‘cultural movement’ he claims to lead is a mere chimera.

In Rotherham, the scene of an appalling attempted arson attack on a migrant hotel in August, just six (yes, six) right wingers responded to today’s ‘Unite the Kingdom ‘call, huddling together ouside a police station, hugely outnumbered by the anti-racist opposition.

In Coventry, Newcastle and Altrincham, and other centres, big anti-fascist turnouts confronted miniscule groups of fascists – where the fascists bothered to show up at all. A hugely impressive anti-fascist rally in Norwich responded to a very late mobilisation call. The fascists’ biggest turnout was in London where they managed to muster 15 (yes, 15) supporters.

Perhaps most significant, on the day, was the pathetic turnout of Paul Golding’s Britain First, who very late on announced a national demonstration in Lichfield. Now, the venue may have been declared late, but they have been setting this up for the last two weeks, and yet they could still only muster about 50 supporters. This, from the party which Golding claims has 20,000 members. Today’s showing gives the lie to that particular fiction.

At the end of the day, this was the only image they posted from their ‘national demonstration’. Anything else would have been too embarrassing. As if this isn’t…

The truth is that BF is a party on its last legs, kept in existence solely to provide a living for Golding and his ‘co-leader’ Ashlea Simon. Hence the ceaseless grifting appeals for funds for this that and the other. We are witnessing its tortuous grunts and gasps as it expires, still pleading for cash from a dwindling band of supporters who never seem to learn they are being conned.

As we wrote recently: Britain First is approaching the end of the road.

Read about it here: https://www.searchlightmagazine.com/2024/11/britain-first-the-end-of-the-road/