Mate, I have friends who grew up in Luton and who have known Tommy Robinson for a long time.

According to them, he has always been a racist thug. He was a Luton Town football hooligan for a while, he used to get drunk in town and regularly provoke fights with people, often racially motivated. He did prison time for assaulting a copper, he has been done numerous times for fraud.

He was motivated enough to join the BNP, which is an overtly racist white supremacist organisation, responsible for years of violence and hate in the UK.

He is clearly articulate and intelligent, and he went off then and started his own hate group. I think his alliances with people like Pegida show his true colours.

Yes, it's true that he has mainly been campaigning against 'islamicisation', and it's true he doesn't want sharia law etc. It's true that he opposes militant Islam ..... and it's also true that these things do not automatically make him a racist. I'm unsure as to whether this campaign is motivated by racism, and he says it is not.

However, he is pretty indisputably a racist for other reasons and according to other evidence.I doubt if he is a very nice man.