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spottybook Wed 19-Mar-25 08:14:06

Whatever your thoughts on Tommy Robinson this article by Lizzie Webb in the Conservative Woman makes interesting reading.

www.conservativewoman.co.uk/for-the-rape-victims-sake-have-mercy-on-tommy-robinson/

Allira Fri 21-Mar-25 11:32:50

Wyllow3

More reading for nanna as to Tommy Robinsons history. You wouldnt welcome him to Oz, thats for sure.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson

No, he'd be turned back at immigration because of his criminal record.

Iam64 Fri 21-Mar-25 12:25:23

Tommy Robinson has absolutely no positive characteristics. The people who first saw the gangs he’s focussed on were social and health workers, teachers, police officers, the girls/boys and their families.
Three Girls the tv drama had a great impact
The two men who helped change things for the victims and successfully prosecute offenders were Keir Starmer and Nazir Afzal at the CPS

petra Fri 21-Mar-25 12:30:35

Iam64
Nazir is a saint in my eyes. To go against your own community took some balls.

Kandinsky Fri 21-Mar-25 14:17:39

A 2024 report on child sex exploitation in Rochdale from 2004 to 2013 found that there was "compelling evidence" of widespread abuse, and that Greater Manchester Police and Rochdale Council had failed to properly investigate these cases, leaving girls "at the mercy of their abusers". While there were successful prosecutions, the report said that the investigations only "scraped the surface" of what had happened, and that many abusers had gone unpunished

This is why we need people like Tommy Robinson.

ViceVersa Fri 21-Mar-25 14:25:40

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is a violent, tax evading football hooligan, bail-breaching, head butting, common assault inflicting, racist, conspiracy theory promoting, Putin supporting, Russian money seeking, passport faking, Covid rule breaking, convicted fraudster, journalist stalking supporter of people who post Gas The Jews videos.

That's exactly what we don't need!

silverlining48 Fri 21-Mar-25 14:27:49

I don’t agree that we need people like ‘Tommy Robinson’ , I believe that we don’t need people like him.

Jane43 Fri 21-Mar-25 14:30:19

Kandinsky

*A 2024 report on child sex exploitation in Rochdale from 2004 to 2013 found that there was "compelling evidence" of widespread abuse, and that Greater Manchester Police and Rochdale Council had failed to properly investigate these cases, leaving girls "at the mercy of their abusers". While there were successful prosecutions, the report said that the investigations only "scraped the surface" of what had happened, and that many abusers had gone unpunished*

This is why we need people like Tommy Robinson.

I think you will find that people like Maggie Oliver who worked tirelessly to bring these offenders to justice and gave up her job as a police officer because she was so frustrated with the lack of progress are needed. Robinson is a criminal with a long list of convictions, he worked with thugs in the EDL, defamed a Syrian boy in his video and was found guilty of defamation in a court of law. We also need people like the makers of the excellent docudrama Three Girls and the makers of a documentary which followed the work of the officers of West Mercia Police who worked to bring a case against grooming gangs. As far as I am concerned we need Tommy Robinson like a hole in the head.

Kandinsky Fri 21-Mar-25 14:32:21

Well that’s sorted then.
The police don’t care, the local council didn’t care, and I doubt anyone on this thread really cares either.

So let the abuse continue.

Casdon Fri 21-Mar-25 14:35:40

Kandinsky

Well that’s sorted then.
The police don’t care, the local council didn’t care, and I doubt anyone on this thread really cares either.

So let the abuse continue.

I don’t think you actually read anything anybody else says Kandinsky, you just go on ploughing your own furrow.

Kandinsky Fri 21-Mar-25 14:43:34

No I don’t read all the posts, but the ones I have read are just listing all Tommy Robinson’s failings. Has he raped vulnerability young children?
No.
Yet all I read is how awful he is.
What about the men who raped these children? where’s the posts saying how revolting they are and we need their type like we need a hole in the head.?

Allira Fri 21-Mar-25 14:50:33

Jane43

Kandinsky

A 2024 report on child sex exploitation in Rochdale from 2004 to 2013 found that there was "compelling evidence" of widespread abuse, and that Greater Manchester Police and Rochdale Council had failed to properly investigate these cases, leaving girls "at the mercy of their abusers". While there were successful prosecutions, the report said that the investigations only "scraped the surface" of what had happened, and that many abusers had gone unpunished

This is why we need people like Tommy Robinson.

I think you will find that people like Maggie Oliver who worked tirelessly to bring these offenders to justice and gave up her job as a police officer because she was so frustrated with the lack of progress are needed. Robinson is a criminal with a long list of convictions, he worked with thugs in the EDL, defamed a Syrian boy in his video and was found guilty of defamation in a court of law. We also need people like the makers of the excellent docudrama Three Girls and the makers of a documentary which followed the work of the officers of West Mercia Police who worked to bring a case against grooming gangs. As far as I am concerned we need Tommy Robinson like a hole in the head.

Yes, Maggie Oliver deserves an honour for all the work she did and is still doing helping the victim of abuse.

Kandinsky that is a dreadful thing to accuse posters of, I hope you reconsider and retract it.

Contrary to what you may believe, Stephen Christoper Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson is not a bit interested in the abuse of children and stopping any paedophile gangs. His only aim is to stir up racism.

ViceVersa Fri 21-Mar-25 15:03:52

Kandinsky, you've already admitted that you don't read all posts, which is pretty obvious. Many posters have spoken of their disgust over the sexual abuse and grooming of any children, not just those whose plight Tommy Robinson would exploit for his own reasons. As Allira so rightly points out, he doesn't really care about the victims, he just wants to use the issue to stir up more trouble.

Allira Fri 21-Mar-25 15:09:39

Yes, victim, not victim which was a typo.
Apologies.

One of the disadvantages of using a stylus not fingers to type.

Wyllow3 Fri 21-Mar-25 15:17:23

I've just done a GN search and found multiple threads which discussed these matters going right back to 2013

Kandinsky Fri 21-Mar-25 15:29:10

Allira

Kandinsky that is a dreadful thing to accuse posters of, I hope you reconsider and retract it

If you’re referring to this comment - and I doubt anyone on this thread really cares either
Then yes, I apologize. I shouldn’t have said that. Sorry.

Allira Fri 21-Mar-25 15:31:52

Apology accepted.
Some of us may have come across abuse cases in our working lives, even if not as social workers or police officers and it is not something easily forgotten.

It's a very emotive subject.

Kandinsky Fri 21-Mar-25 15:36:49

ViceVersa

I don’t know what his real intentions are, (can anyone be 100% sure? ) but to me, anyone who speaks out about this issue is keeping it in the public domain and getting people talking - like we are now - that to me, can only be a positive.

Anyway, I’ve spent enough time on here so I’m off to enjoy the weekend.
Hope you all have a good weekend too!

Kandinsky Fri 21-Mar-25 15:37:34

Allira

Thank you thanks

Wyllow3 Fri 21-Mar-25 15:54:10

Hmm. my "takeaway" is a great deal of detail about how dreadful Tommy Robinson is and what Musk is up to trying to turn him into a hero fomenting division....

StoneofDestiny Fri 21-Mar-25 18:26:36

I have no idea who or what this Robinson man is

Wow - so scary to be so ill informed of what is going on in this country!

Wyllow3 Fri 21-Mar-25 18:56:27

I don't think it's that unusual - my hairdresser yesterday - she must be 50? hadn't heard of him at all.

(she was pretty vocal about Trump and Musk however. and it was the Zelensky incident she particularly recalled as well as the Musk chain saw)

StoneofDestiny Fri 21-Mar-25 19:07:50

Still scary that we, as a voting public, don't keep up with the news. Robinson has been very vocal for years and the subject of many news items and documentaries. It really no wonder how extremists grab minds so easily.

StoneofDestiny Fri 21-Mar-25 19:09:59

Anyway - very glad he lost his case in the High Court today

Luminance Fri 21-Mar-25 19:18:44

Nonsense the man has been imprisoned for many different crimes including fraud, public order and drug offences. To excuse one person for any offence based on whatever good they may have done while following their own agenda is ludicrous in the extreme. He is where he belongs. He can rot and I care not.

Wyllow3 Fri 21-Mar-25 20:01:37

StoneofDestiny

Anyway - very glad he lost his case in the High Court today

This is an account of why Robinson was refused. The account has not just life threats against him from other prisoners meaning he needs "protection"

....but death threats from his supporters to prison authorities -
almost bizarre

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/21/tommy-robinson-refused-permission-challenge-prison-segregation

It now means that the case for allegedly refusing to comply with a search of his phone by police using counter-terrorism powers can go ahead.