Baht Simpson

Ah, the old "My enemies enemy is my friend" routine. I know nothing of the Sikh relationship with Robinson but this is rather enlightning. Apparently the Sikhs aligned themselves with the EDF but couldn't take the racism. Robinson tried to influence the Sikh youth with anti Muslim films. Seems like they're friends again now. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sikh-youth-uk-muslim-film-university-tommy-robinson-edl-sex-groomers-islamophobia-racism-a8002526.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1KMXehLUhyUtMvSEFZrCsgfaAK1Hgaa_mrOphlA-2isT1M91Fhndz5DQ0_aem_AeBU_DgYaNmRqAsGU2fhNAHSquxZs32p3InpFKuzceqte90ttdtJ7WMAc5UHr-gJVn8kM0t7PqWmtASvitlWzysK

This is just a list of demands. How is this to be achieved without government representation?

So what is Robinson's solution to the Muslim problem?

I'm not anti-Christian. Just the evangelicals. There's a video of them later chanting Jesus Is King. Christian Nationalists. No time for them. And I'm quite happy living in a nation based on Buddhism. I don't base my life on what religion I am.

A few British people. Don't presume they represent the whole country.

I am aware that, at the time of the previous general election, the Labour party had included unfreezing of frozen pensions in their manifesto (I think that is correct). I therefore responded to my MP as below : Dear Mr xxxxxx, Thank you for your response. It is, of course, disappointing. At the time of the last (I believe) election the Labour Party promised to unfreeze pensions for those pensioners living overseas in countries that do not receive uprating. I have to ask why that promise has changed ? Why are we no longer deserving of this ? The fact that some pensioners are still receiving the level of pension that they had when they left UK many years ago is, to be fair, disgusting. You say that this "this is a difficult issue". I would have to disagree. It's a very simple issue. Make pension uprating the norm for all pensioners, no matter where they reside. What could be simpler than that ? We have paid our dues in UK, many of us, including me, for more than 40 years, and now we are penalised ? Why ? You say that moving overseas is voluntary decision. That is so, and so is my choice of who to vote for. I'm sure that the implication is clear. Regards, Tony M The MP has not responded Angela Rayner is the Shadow Deputy Leader and probable Deputy PM in a few weeks. It might be appropriate to remind her of her words from 2016. 'The cause is also being supported by shadow pensions minister Angela Rayner who described frozen pensions as ‘unfair and illogical’. "Over 550,000 people are losing over half their money they worked hard for. The fought for their country, they worked hard, paid national insurance and paid tax, it is unjust and something has to be done,’ she said. ‘It comes down to decency…it is disrespectful not to [uprate pensions].’" https://citywire.com/funds-insider/news/breakthrough-for-frozen-pensioners-living-abroad/a877900 Oliver Letwin, the Tory minister agreed and proposed a partial uprating. But that would be a disaster for several reasons. There's no excuse for any of this but I won't hold my breath on anything happening.

You're going to have to explain what you mean by keep away. You think LGBT should be banned from talking to children? No gay teachers?

Nah, he's learnt his lesson. Get other people to do the dirty work and take the fall.

Or maybe you could read the thread properly. I did quote the source in the third post. Clearly some people didn't read it so I posted it in a abbreviated form with highlighted text to show what I was referring to. Hence me saying " A few highlights" and putting text in inverted commas. I'm quite happy to cut and paste factual information that I've linked to. I accept your humble apology. 🙂

I don't believe that for one minute. Showing the rainbow colours. Putting "overthe rainbow", alluding to the LGBT symbol. Calling it a cult Alluding to grooming, which isn't pedophilia anyway. Citing registered charities that have been going for years, with absolutely no evidence of grooming. I've looked at the first two organizations and they both fully engage with parents in the process. Now what could be purpose of these leaflets I wonder? Clearly they want get them shut down because they support LGBT youth. I think they might be better off looking elsewhere.

The leaflets were made and I presume distributed by letwomenspeak, an organisation fronted by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aka Posie Parker, who is not known for her love of LGBT and specifically transgender. She is affiliated with many far right organisations and has praised Robinson..

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Lol. Now that I like.

No, I think it's dim and ill informed.

I didn't say everyone was handing out leaflets but there were some.

I imagine everything does to you, gaseous. 🙂

Sadly I have very little hair these days. Thanks for your concern though.

You know, when I posted I thought, should I explain I'm being sarcastic, but then I thought no-one would be stupid enough to think I was being serious. How wrong I was.

Yes. They were handing out anti-LGBT posters too. Fox is virulently anti-Pride.

As I explained in a previous post I was being sarcastic but unfortunately it went over some people's heads.

Just a violent ultra right-wing, highly convicted felon. "Wants his country back" means nothing. A few highlights. "Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (born Stephen Christopher Yaxley, 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British anti-Islam campaigner, convicted criminal, and one of the UK’s most prominent far-right activists. He was a political advisor to former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Gerard Batten. Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years. He was a member of the British National Party (BNP), a neo-fascist and white nationalist political party, from 2004 to 2005. For a short time in 2012, he was joint vice-chairman of the far-right British Freedom Party (BFP). He co-founded the far-right English Defence League (EDL) in 2009 and led it until 8 October 2013. In 2015, he became involved with the development of Pegida UK, a now-defunct British chapter of the German far-right Pegida. From 2017 to 2018, he wrote and appeared in videos on the Canadian far-right website Rebel News. Robinson has been convicted for multiple crimes involving violence, stalking, financial and immigration fraud, drug possession, public order offences, and contempt of court. He has served at least four separate prison terms: for assault in 2005, for using false travel documents to enter the United States in 2012, for mortgage fraud in 2014, and 13 months in 2018 for contempt of court after publishing a Facebook Live video of defendants entering a law court (contravening a court order that disallows reporting on such trials while proceedings are ongoing). In August 2018, due to procedural errors, he was released on bail pending a new hearing. In July 2019, he was again found guilty of contempt of court at the retrial and was committed at the Old Bailey to nine months in prison․ Before his sentencing, he appeared on the American far-right website InfoWars to appeal for political asylum in the U.S. He was released from prison on 13 September 2019 after nine weeks. In July 2021, Robinson was found to have libelled a 15-year-old refugee at a school in Huddersfield and was ordered to pay £100,000 plus legal costs, although he had filed for bankruptcy in March 2021. In October 2021, he was made subject to a five-year stalking order for harassing journalist Lizzie Dearden and her partner. "....but lost his job when he was convicted of assaulting an off-duty police officer in a drunken argument. He served a 12-month prison sentence." "Robinson has appeared masked at protests. Although Robinson repeatedly insisted from the early days of the organisation that the EDL was "against the rise of radical Islam" and that its members "aren't against Islam", its rank and file were noted for including football hooligans and members who described themselves as anti-Muslim." "Robinson was convicted in 2011 of using "threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour" during a fight between supporters of Luton Town and Newport County in Luton the previous year. Robinson reportedly led the group of Luton fans, and played an integral part in starting a 100-man brawl, during which he chanted "EDL till I die". He was sentenced to a 12-month community rehabilitation order with 150 hours' unpaid work and a three-year ban from attending football matches." "On 29 September 2011, Robinson was convicted of common assault after headbutting a fellow EDL member at a rally in Blackburn in April that year.[1][18] He was sentenced to 12 weeks' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months."

"rough round the edges . Lol You might want to read this first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_(activist)

"It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. In 1908, a government minister stated, in response to a parliamentary question, that "the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag." - Flag Institute So, although the term originates from seafare it's not just for a flag that's on a vessel now. Churchill also referred to it as the Union Jack.

A common misconception I'm afraid.