Splashes from the cesspit
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka “Tommy Robinson” takes his right-wing provocations to a new level by harassing journalist Mike Stuchbery in the middle of the night:
For the last few months, I have written about the methods used by “Tommy Robinson” to intimidate and harass those who dare to criticise him. I do this because he’s the most visible figure in a surging UK far right, feted by politicians and media figures alike.
Tonight he paid me a visit. Twice.
Stuchbery had tweeted that Yaxley-Lennon was about to be served papers for defamation.
The first we knew of it was a loud, frantic rapping on my door at around quarter to 11. The shouted voice that accompanied it was unmistakable.
“MIIIIIKE! I JUST WANT TO CHAT!”
There is no “just wanting to chat” when you’re banging on a stranger’s door late at night.
Notifications started pouring in, because Yaxley-Lennon was livestreaming his ambush on Facebook.
The banging went on and on as Stuchbery and his wife waited for the cops. They arrived and got Yaxley-Lennon to leave.
Until it started again at 5am. The thumping began anew, manic this time, loud and booming. The house rattled.
This time the defamatory statements began almost straight away – he seemed almost incoherent now, perhaps even intoxicated. His voice was breaking. He urged others to seek me out, to come find me, before, in an utterly surreal fashion, he announced he was off to the gym, and would be back afterwards.
He just wanted to chat.
A journalist intimidated at home at 5am, live streamed. Women colleagues facing rape and death threats installing panic buttons. The torrent of online abuse undermines democracy and free speech. We must act to stop the online world turning into a cesspit of hate. pic.twitter.com/6G4fSjEue7
— Tom Watson (@tom_watson) March 7, 2019
I think it’s too late for that.
Yeah but come on! As Eny Fule Know, Tommy Robinson is unfairly targeted by the left wing press! He’s a poor innocent little snowflake who is being made a scapegoat by the all-powerful Soshul Jusstiss Woriers. Without brave heroes like Tommy, white people will become the minority in their own country, and sharia law will be instituted from Lands End to John O’Groats.
(Not sure about Ireland. The Jihadis will have to go head to head with a resurgant IRA. That’ll be a clash to bring popcorn for.)
I live in Birmingham in the UK. It’s one of Europe’s most multicultural cities – by some metrics, even more so than London (Comparison can be complicated as there are multiple ways to delineate both “Birmingham” and “London”). In fact, we are at a point where the percentage of indigenous white residents of the Greater Birmingham area (population c. 3.8 million as of last year) is predicted to drop below 50%. Shock! Horror! White folks are a minority! Maybe Tommy’s right!
Except… the next largest group are the Pakistani descended Asians with a grand total of 13%. Add to them significant populations of Indians, Afro-Carribeans, and Travellers, plus smaller groups of Chinese and Vietnamese and Jewish people. And, given that at any one time any of these ethnic groups probably dislike and distrust several of the other groups as much (sometimes more than) they do the white population… Well, I’m not sure we’ve got much to worry about.
I’m currently taking a second BSc to qualify as a Podiatrist. About half my group aren’t white. We’ve got several Asian girls – Pakistani and Bangladeshi muslim backgrounds mostly. Some are hijabi and/or need to wear high necked and elbow length t shirts under their uniform tunics. We have three afro-caribbean women – two are third generation UK born, one who is an immigrant from Jamaica, who has already qualified as a nurse, four asian young men – three born in the UK of Bangladeshi descent, one secular Sikh whose mother immigrated from the Punjab. All the Asian students are incredibly hard working – and I don’t mean the stereotype of the Asian nerd, I mean they all have jobs outside of university, several of them help out in family businesses as well. A couple work part time in the usual service type jobs, but also run their own small scale business – one does some freelance car mechanic jobs, another sells her crafts on Ebay, and other online sites (plus direct to her local community), and one does mehndi for weddings and celebrations.
I’m rambling a bit, but the point is that when I look at Tommy Shitweasel and his followers, then look at the BAME people I’ve known and worked with (now and in the past), I know damned well who I think is better for the country. And, no, obviously not all BAME folks are industrious, intelligent and ambitious people – but that just puts them in line with white folk. What a surprise. Maybe, if we must split people into groups, we shouldn’t go on appearance and background, and pay more attention to actions?
But Tommy and his fuckwit followers can’t have that, because if worth is defined as something other than being born white, they are immediately ranked close to the bottom. (OK, probably above serial killers, child molesters, and people who talk in the theatre. But that’s a pretty low bar.)