It was something we awaited with considerable anticipation.
Ten days ago, ‘Tommy Robinson’ announced online that the following Sunday (ie three days ago) he would be going to church.
That’s right, ‘Tommy Robinson’ in church. “For the first time in years”, he told us.
And not just any church, but his far-right mate Rikki Doolan’s church, the Spirit Embassy in north London.
All this, said Robinson, inspired by the death of Charlie Kirk.
The announcement, viewed by 1.4 million people on X, was met with much clapping of hands and thanking of the Lord on the Christian far right.
Not just from Doolan but from the likes of the batshit preacher himself, ‘Reverend’ Calvin Robinson (no relation).
You could almost see them busting out the fatted calf for their prodigal son. Because, let’s face it, sons don’t come any more prodigal than Tommy.
Gravy train
It was not entirely out of the blue. When he was banged up doing his last stretch of jail time we were told he was taking religious instruction from a preacher in the prison.
All part, we assumed, of his preparations to climb aboard that singularly lucrative gravy train that is the nutjob religious far right.
So, you would expect, when it came to pass that Tommy put on his Sunday best and pitched up at Doolan’s ‘Spirit Embassy’ church in Tottenham at the weekend, there would be much celebrating and posting of prayers of thanks online.
Not a prayer
But no. Not a word. Complete radio silence. Not a devotional whisper.
No sign of Tommy at the church.
So we can only surmise that (probably for the same reason he was a no-show at Ben Habib’s launch in Newcastle on Saturday) ‘Tommy’ had found another, probably less spiritually uplifting, way of getting through the weekend. If he was actually back from Panama, that is.
And still they fall for it.
