MEP candidate assaulted in UK

I do wonder what the opinion is of some of our TSR superstars.

Whatever your opinion of Tommy Robinson. He is a political candidate and criticism towards him is subjective. Which is why we don't encourage this behaviour in our public discourse as the end result is violence and the poisoning of our political system.

Avi Yemini made a very good point about this.
"To those who are celebrating attacks on TR, just remember, if this is your new accepted form of political discourse - don't complain when it smacks you in the face.
Tommy can handle himself, I doubt you will."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-48152238

I do wonder what the opinion is of some of our TSR superstars.

Whatever your opinion of Tommy Robinson. He is a political candidate and criticism towards him is subjective. Which is why we don't encourage this behaviour in our public discourse as the end result is violence and the poisoning of our political system.

Avi Yemini made a very good point about this.
"To those who are celebrating attacks on TR, just remember, if this is your new accepted form of political discourse - don't complain when it smacks you in the face.
Tommy can handle himself, I doubt you will."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-48152238

You conveniently omit to mention that one of people hospitalised with a broken nose allege that they were attacked by a Robinson supporter.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/03/woman-claims-tommy-robinson-ally-broke-her-nose-at-cheshire-event

If Tommy Robinson was looking to avoid violent confrontation, he would hire professional security who have a sense of restraint and don't wildly swing their fists at people at the first opportunity. Instead he walks around with a thuggish entourage of cronies. If you watch some of the videos, when Robinson talks to people, his cronies encircle them. That's designed to intimidate. We can see videos of his cronies pushing and lashing out at people. We can see videos of his supporters verbally threatening people with violence. Only last month, Robinson turned up on a journalist's doorstep at night to intimidate him.

Robinson's background is in football hooliganism and the EDL. He has multiple criminal convictions, including for violence. He is not interested in serious political discourse. He thrives on this sort of confrontation and he knows what he is doing. Robinson headbutted someone because the man had a verbal disagreement with him. That a serious step up from having a milkshake thrown over you.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9279888.edl-leader-facing-jail-after-assault-in-blackburn/

Having read some of your posts, I suspect you have far-right sympathies, so I understand why you are trying to defend him. It a common trope of the far-right to cast themselves as victims, as persecuted, as discriminated against, etc. Thankfully most people can see straight through this whining and can see Robinson for the nasty thuggish shite that he is.

I do wonder what the opinion is of some of our TSR superstars.

Whatever your opinion of Tommy Robinson. He is a political candidate and criticism towards him is subjective. Which is why we don't encourage this behaviour in our public discourse as the end result is violence and the poisoning of our political system.

Avi Yemini made a very good point about this.
"To those who are celebrating attacks on TR, just remember, if this is your new accepted form of political discourse - don't complain when it smacks you in the face.
Tommy can handle himself, I doubt you will."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-48152238

He was having an emotional argument with a protester. Of course, food/drink should never be thrown at others but it's understandable why this happened. His encounter with this man certainly wasn't a peaceful one even before the milkshake was thrown.

It's not the first time food has been thrown at a politician. Could have been eggs.

That Muslim milkshake gentleman did not come with an argument. He came up with his phone in Tommy's face. Started pushing him after pushing another woman and was confronted for it. I don't care about these so called emotions, they don't make violence all of a sudden acceptable.

The guy was laughing about it in the taxi later with his pals, and laughing because he wasn't arrested.

Do you have any footage of that happening?

It is on Avi Yeminis YouTube channel.

Having read some of your posts, I suspect you have far-right sympathies, so I understand why you are trying to defend him. It a common trope of the far-right to cast themselves as victims, as persecuted, as discriminated against, etc. Thankfully most people can see straight through this whining and can see Robinson for the nasty thuggish shite that he is.

Can you... link this to me?

Yes he has a thuggish nature about him, but can you really blame him? Consider the environment he's grown up in (have you ever been to Luton? It's not a nice place, at all). Consider too that ever since he has dared to dip his toes into politics, he is harrassed, threatened and physically attacked on a pretty regular basis, what exactly do want him to do? Not defend himself? Just allow himself to be beaten to pulp? Maybe you do want that...

I can't help but feel a lot of the rabid opposition to Tommy Robinson, particularly from the media is not really political based, but just pure classist snobbery.

Only last month, Robinson turned up on a journalist's doorstep at night to intimidate him.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, to use his real name, doesn't just have a 'thuggish nature about him' - he is a thug. He has a conviction for assaulting a police officer who tried to intervene when Yaxley-Lennon was attacking his girlfriend. He also has a conviction for head butting a different man.