“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

The latest video from Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, reveals clearly that his latest national demonstration, called for October 26^th, has nothing to do with ‘Uniting the Nation’, as is claims, nor anything to do with free speech. It’s all about trying to keep Yaxley-Lennon out of jail.

It’s a short but hysterical performance – and by hysterical we don’t mean funny, we mean he’s laughing hysterically throughout it, obviously having only just been ‘fuelled’ for the occasion.

And the bottom line is it’s a short, thinly-veiled threat of what might happen if the courts dare to jail him for contempt so soon after he will have wound up his followers at a mass rally in London.

This is it in full:

“Keir – you thought you’d stopped it.

“You thought you’d intimidated the British public into silence.

“We ain’t even started yet, mate.

“October 26^th – you imprison me two days later, you’re going to galvanise our movement like never before!

“Only just started, bro…”  

October 28^th is the date set for the next hearing when he is due to answer a contempt of court charge, and highly likely to receive a substantial prison sentence. After he lost a 2021 libel action against a Syrian boy whom he accused of attacking girls at school, he was ordered not to repeat the allegation. But he did so on numerous occasions and was duly charged with contempt in June.

Then, at the 27 July rally he organised in London, he showed a documentary he had made where the allegations were repeated. This led to another contempt order being issued against him.

Just as in July, the October rally is scheduled to take place on a weekend immediately before his court hearing on the Monday morning. He missed the last hearing, of course, by skipping abroad the day before – on the way picking up another criminal charge, this time under the Terrorism Act, for refusing to cooperate with a search at the Eurotunnel terminal in Kent as he tried to flee. He left by Eurostar later the same day and was later tracked down sunning himself in a luxury resort in Cyprus. He then fled to Greece.

It’s curious – or perhaps not – that the timing of these rallies is always so close to his court appearances. And today’s video makes it explicitly clear that his intention is to use the next one to put pressure on the government to see he does not go to prison.  

However, he may not have to wait that long to find out his fate. An arrest warrant will be activated in early October for his failure to attend court in July, if he hasn’t promised by then to attend court on 28th October. If he doesn’t give that assurance (which, given he did a runner in July would be worthless anyway), he may simply be picked up and dumped in a cell as soon as he arrives back in the country, to be taken to court in a prison van on the Monday morning.

Interestingly, in his interview last Sunday before scuttling off to the States, the Islamophobe preacher Calvin Robinson revealed that the original date which others wanted was 12 October, but that had not proved possible. Seems like Yaxley-Lennon’s need for it to be as close as possible to his trial date trumped other considerations.

He’s calling it “the most important date in recent times”.

And it probably is, if you’re Stephen Yaxley-Lennon trying to stay out of jail.

Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett has revealed a scheme for nazi sympathisers with no public record of involvement in extremist groups to infiltrate Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Writing in the current issue of the neo-Nazi ‘intellectual’ magazine ‘Heritage and Destiny’, Collett has set out his grand design for the future of British ‘ethno-nationalism’.  Much of this hinges around raising money to buy land and property to set up white nationalist communities, but he also reveals an ‘entryist’ plan targeting Reform UK, using ‘clean skin’ nazi activists.

He says:

“Those of us who are not known, who have a clean public image and who wish to get elected to high office should join Reform UK, help to steer that party from within and put themselves forward as parliamentary candidates. Having a number of officials and candidates within Reform UK, and potentially having an ethno-nationalist elected to parliament under the Reform UK banner would obviously be advantageous in a number of ways, not least in bringing Farage and his party closer to our positions….

“So, in a very real sense, a dedicated group of ethno-nationalists who have not been previously politically exposed could join Reform UK and do great things – effectively turning them into a vehicle for something better and more robust”.

Although his group ran candidates in the General Election, under the banner of (and with funding from) the English Democrats, Collett now declares that for the foreseeable future involvement in elections, especially parliamentary elections, will be “a waste of time, money and resources”.

The “600lb gorilla in the room”, he says, is Reform UK which completely dominates the far-right electoral scene. But it is precisly Reform UK’s electoral weight that makes it an attractive target for entryism. Going up against Farage, argues Collett, would mean far right candidates being humiliated in much the same way as Britain First was in the London mayoral elections – beaten by joke candidate Count Binface.

Collett claims that Britain First spent £40,000 on the campaign, leaving the party completely broke. This is likely to be the real reason that BF did not put up any candidates in the general election, rather than just, in the words of leader Paul Golding, “keeping our heads down”.

Collett’s answer, for those who are known to be nazi activists, is to concentrate on raising funds to buy land and property and establish white nationalist communities. Even on the far right this is likely to be recognised as yet another shameless grift from one of the nazi movement’s most shameless grifters.

Formed by Collett in 2019, PA has regularly been linked with right wing terrorist activities: a number of members and sympathisers have been jailed for terror offences in recent years and Collett himself was linked to the now-banned terror group National Action. Splits in PA last year led to the formation of Alek Yerbury’s National Rebirth Party and Kenny Smith’s Homeland Party.

Pictures: PA leader Mark Collett adddresses last year’s Heritage & Destiny conference, and the current issue of H&D.

So that’s it, he’s gone. Britain’s batshit preacher, the Reverend Calvin Robinson, boarded a plane today and swanned off to his new parish in West Michigan, USA. And we all heartily wave him goodbye.

His departure was announced this morning on the right wing online New Culture Forum in what was billed as his last UK interview before departing. It seems that the God-fearing folk of a parish on the Great Lakes somewhere were told by the Almighty that Robinson was the man to minister to them. They’re welcome to him.

His reason for scuttling off has been a little modified since he announced a few days ago that he was quitting the UK. He now admits that Islamic extremists have not actually “issued a fatwa to get us all killed”, although he still claims that being named as one of the UK’s top 10 Islamophobes has “put a target on my back” and he fears being stabbed by “some anonymous Mohammedan” as he walks down the street.

No, now it’s mainly down to Keir Starmer and the ‘satanic’ Labour government which has terrified the good reverend that he might at any moment be picked up and banged up.

Oddly, he tells us that although he’ll be based almost 4000 miles away from party HQ, he will nevertheless remain in post as UKIP’s Lead Spokesperson on Everything, and will return at the next general election to stand as a parliamentary candidate. Assuming he won’t just walk out on his new parish, potential constituents might have questions for him about how he could properly represent them at quite such a distance.

And, sadly, he will still be broadcasting online – his new parish has apparently committed to building a recording studio for him in their parish hall.

What he didn’t address in his interview today was whether his project to crowdfund the purchase the Scottish island of Torsa to turn it into a Christian retreat and keep it out of the hands of ‘Islamic hate preachers’ will now be going ahead. And, if not, what will happen to the funds raised so far.

To date, he has raised over £150,000 of the £1.5 million needed. He states, in his appeal on the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, that in the event of insufficient funds being raised, donations will be returned to sender. But this might prove quite an onerous task, given that GiveSendGo offers no mechanism for such refunds, and says specifically that “GiveSendGo will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.”

Its terms of service also state that:

“Donations on GiveSendGo are nonrefundable. Donations given to a campaign go directly to the campaign recipient’s account and are not held by GiveSendGo… GiveSendGo is not responsible for refunding any funds collected by the Campaign Owner through the use of GiveSendGo.com or by any other means. Contributions, along with our fees and charges, are not refundable.

“As a Giver, you are solely responsible for asking questions and investigating Campaigns to the extent you feel is necessary before you make a Contribution. All Contributions are made voluntarily and at your sole discretion and risk.”

GiveSendGo is an interesting choice of platform, and not merely because of its light touch regulation of what happens to funds raised. Based in Boston, in the US, it was initially set up as a fundraising platform for Christian causes but became the platform of choice for the extreme right, offering facilities to fund raisers whom other platforms would turn away.

Millions of dollars, for instance, have been raised by and for January 6 insurrectionists in the US. Proud Boy and Oath Keeper fundraising campaigns were only de-listed after pressure from third-party payment processing providers.

This is, in fact, not Calvin Robinson’s first GiveSendGo fundraiser. In October last year he was fired by GB News for publicly backing presenter Dan Wootton, himself sacked in the wake of highly offensive remarks by Laurence Fox on Wootton’s GB News show. Robinson immediately launched a fundraiser for the ‘Crusade Against Cancel Culture’. Its stated purposes were replacing his GB News income and “…raising funds for a potential legal battle. (Deacon) Calvin will not take this one lying down!”

That now appears a little odd. In his interview yesterday on Wootton’s new online show, Robinson claimed that the offer of a parish in America arrived only a few days after he was sacked by GB News. But, even more curiously, he says that he realised his sacking:

“…wasn’t anything to do with those bad managers. It wasn’t anything to do with that station. It was God clearing a path and saying this is the door that I’m opening to you now. This is where you’re going to go from now on.”

So, if the sacking was nothing to with GB News, and was entirely the responsibility of the Almighty, what possible purpose was being served by raising funds for a potential legal action? Issuing proceedings against God would seem, on the face of it, to have rather limited prospects of success.

In the circumstances, perhaps Father Robinson might consider whether it would be appropriate to refund any of the £34,000 raised in that appeal to donors who gave specifically to support litigation.  

“Staff watched videos from outside the hotel, which was housing about 200 asylum seekers, as violence flared with police outside. Thomas Birley is accused of being part of that violence, the court hears.”

The BBC, along with a number of papers, often seems to be arse-covering when there is absolutely no longer any need to, dotting reports with ‘allegedly’ and so on where there is actually no doubt or risk of contempt.

This particular report concerns Thomas Birley (pictured) , from Doncaster, who stoked a fire in a wheelie bin that was pushed against an exit of the hotel on 4 August.

Today’s Birley hearing is for sentencing. He has already pleaded guilty to a charge of violent disorder, one of arson with intent to endanger life and one of possessing an offensive weapon.

He is not “accused of being part of that violence” as the BBC report (above) would have us believe. His part in it is settled. He did it. He has admitted it.

Now he’s just waiting to find out how long he’s going down for.

(The arson charge carries a maximum tariff of life imprisonment).