Think what you want about Tommy Robinson .

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  1. orsenkaht

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    "Exposed" grooming gangs purely as a vehicle to give vent to his own racism and divisiveness. Andrew Norfolk of The Times did rather more. He is a poisonous individual and if our pluralist society permits his opinions to have air I hope people see them for what they are.
     
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    Try explaining that theory to Lee Rigby’s mum and dad then!
     
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    So Lee Rigby's parents support racism and bigotry? Excuse me but isn't that how we arrived at such a tragedy?
     
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    No, I hope and expect them to promote peace and happiness on our streets and fight for better snactions to prevent another family enduring the pain they have suffered!!

    I’m not a TR fan one bit but when anyone steps off the beaten track to offer a different view or opinion they get lambasted straight away and thrown to the dogs by the media
     
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    What an utterly ridiculous argument. Did the law prevent Rigsby's murderers being caught and prosecuted? No.
    The law is there to protect every single one of us and the day we start ignoring it to pander to the whim of any section of the community is the day we're on the edge of anarchy.
    Then you WILL see wrongdoing go unpunished.
     
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    Indeed Norfolk did do a lot more and the Rotherham MP Sarah Champion also worked tirelessly (and was hounded for it). If more people had acknowledged what was happening the likes of Tommy Robinson wouldn't have had a vacuum within which to talk about it. But there was a shocking lack of open discussion and I stand by the opinion that I'd rather Robinson highlight what was happening than let the issue be shrouded in silence and fade away. That doesn't mean I agree with him nor support him.

    The obsession with him still beggars belief. He's seemingly more hated than actual terrorists. I see him as a mouth-piece for an increasingly unpopular political stance rather than someone to be despised and censored.
     
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    A lot of people seemingly fail to twig that for the most part, most aspects of human rights carry with them equivalent responsibilities. Yaxley-Lennon is no respecter of such things.
     
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    He's a lovely person.
     
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    Violent, racist fraudster.

    Next.
     
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    Hour of my life I’ll never get back.

    It wasn’t a damp squib nor was it the blockbuster expose that it promised.

    So what did we learn...

    Old lad from the Beeb drinks like a fish on someone else’s bill.

    Hope not hate have their tentacles everywhere.

    The Beeb or more so the producers behind the “Tommy takedown” would appear to be in breach of their own rules over impartiality using a heavy hope not hate involvement in making of it.

    The question needs to be asked over who is the driving force behind this episode being produced. The Beeb or a third party interloper which would go against Beeb guidelines.

    Sweeney got made to look a bit daft and if the suggestion he wanted a faked sexual assault allegation from Robinson’s former employee is correct then heads must roll.

    Regardless of someone’s political viewpoint and your opinion on the same you don’t do something like that. It’s a proper lovely people trick and would have destroyed his family.

    The right to reply after it has been aired is laughable. Horse, stable. Bolted.

    The text message scam was amusing. And sums up a lot of modern investigative journalism.

    Old Tommy couldn’t help his self and had to be a **** when he had the upper hand at the end. If he had offered his hand and then left he would have come out of it better.
     
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    Nick Griffin first brought the gangs to the public attention by camping with his goons outside the sitting courts.

    Andrew Norfolk started his investigations for the times a few years later.
     
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    Good god... If I shook my head nonstop for a thousand years it still wouldn't be enough.
     
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    Tommy Robinson is irrelevant to anyone outside of a small group of fanatics and impressionable thugs but he has virtually no influence on the politics in this country. There are people with equally vile opinions who sit in the houses of parliament and who can influence a much larger audience.

    Politics is on its arse right now and there is nothing more condescending than people who take the moral high ground yet support or turn a blind eye to racism just because it comes from a different part of the political spectrum.
     
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    lovely person . That’s it
     
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    Never had any time for racists. Even if he's right about the BBC, he's still a racists idiot.
     
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    Tommy Robinson is irrelevant to anyone outside of a small group of fanatics and impressionable thugs but he has virtually no influence on the politics in this country. There are people with equally vile opinions who sit in the houses of parliament and who can influence a much larger audience.

    Politics is on its arse right now and there is nothing more condescending than people who take the moral high ground yet support or turn a blind eye to racism just because it comes from a different part of the political spectrum.
     
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    You sound like a fan Loyal ?
     
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    Here's a story about someone who went to join ISIS.

    Here's a story about Tommy Robinson.

    Here's a logical fallacy called Whataboutism.

    Tommy Robinson stands and falls on his own, any opinion about the danger he poses really has nothing to do with this ISIS girl.
     
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