In his last interview before scooting off to the US, ‘Batshit preacher’ Calvin Robinson said he wouldn’t be able to come back for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s October 26 rally in London. He would have come back for an earlier date but couldn’t make that one.

And now we know why. On that day he will be St Francis Anglican Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina, speaking at the ‘Mighty Men of Valour’ conference on Christian masculinity in South Carolina.

Organised by the Perseus Conference, the event starts from the position that “The world today has attempted to erase biblical masculinity through deception and perversion” and is “dedicated to men who wish to be a part of reclaiming that leadership role…”

It’s intended as an elite event, with places restricted to 100 ‘world-class’ Christian men but sadly (or not) so far only 35 have signed up. Real men are in short supply in the world of madcap far right Christianity, it would seem.

Still, we are sure that the man recently pictured in full on traditional Catholic clerical regalia (top left), thus bringing a whole new meaning to ‘Calvinism’, will enjoy the testosterone-fuelled atmosphere in the St Francis presbytery, where “…during breaks and some meals we plan to have special opportunities to fellowship together including…smoking cigars while we get to know each other.”

Viewees of ‘Fox and Father’, the online sitcom featuring him and Lawrence Fox (top right), will already know that Robinson likes nothing better than to strike a Churchillian pose, blowing smoke rings from a pipe or an outsize cigar.

So, we’re equally sure that while Yaxley-Lennon, Fox and their scummy hordes are strutting about outside Downing St at the end of the month, they will take much spiritual comfort from the knowledge that Robinson and his clerical band of ‘Mighty Men of Valour’ will be with them in spirit and remembering them in their prayers.

Or they may find themselves again muttering the word so many of them spat out when he hopped it across the pond: ‘Frit’