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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 assuaging 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 know you are probably addressing Miles or Lyle but thank you. Sometimes it feels like banging my head against a Brick Wall. I am personally a bit too quick to call people fascists but having scrapped with the BNP and their like in the past whilst marching with the Anti Nazi League (early 90's) I know exactly what a lot of these people are about. The most saddening thing is with Acid House and Rave Culture (and couple of pills) a lot of the lads who used to fight whilst wearing football colours, opened their eyes to a lot of things, including how stupid racism is, ( particularly considering a lot ran with Cass etc) and many are now taking a step backwards with the rise of the EDL etc.

Yes there is a problem with Islam in Europe and idiots being offended on behalf of others, but that should not prompt others to jump to the defense of out and out racist thugs that have the gall to fucking do the Nazi salute on European soil whilst claiming to represent Britain, the English or any other group they don't even know the history of.