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Orwi ( Orwi@programming.dev )  to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days ago

Tommy Robinson faces up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of harassing journalists

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Tommy Robinson faces up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of harassing journalists

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Orwi ( Orwi@programming.dev )  to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days ago
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Judge says he will consider all options to sentence far-right activist who trial heard deployed ‘bullyboy, intimidatory tactics’
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  • some_guy ( some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    Robinson, a former member of the British National party and co-founder of the English Defence League, had said before the trial that his legal bills were being paid for by the billionaire tech mogul and owner of X, Elon Musk.

    The amount of harm that asshole does around the world is staggering. Best reason in the world no one should have such ridiculous wealth. What charitable act has that asshole ever done? Nothing.

    Give me access to his bank accounts for an afternoon. I’ll fund literacy programs and feed hungry people and provide shelter to the unhoused and he won’t miss a cent. What a piece of shit.

    • Echo Dot ( echodot@feddit.uk ) 
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      He’s also an idiot. What’s the point of trying to defend this particular moron? He’s going to prison, there is no defense against what he has done to himself.

  • PaleRider ( Palerider@feddit.uk ) 
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    Surely you mean Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon?

    • Echo Dot ( echodot@feddit.uk ) 
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      I mean you can see why it changed his name. Most of his supporters wouldn’t be able to spell it otherwise.

      • Fluke ( Fluke@feddit.uk ) 
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        He hasn’t changed his name. He just goes by an invented alias to make him come across as “one of our lads” (A “Tommy” has been slang for a British soldier for centuries).

        He’s actually a middle class, property owning grifter of the same ilk -although much lower down the pecking order- as that swivel eyed, toad-looking fucker, Farage.

  • wiccan2 ( wiccan2@thelemmy.club ) 
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    Good, put the cunt away and stop talking about him so he loses his platform.

  • Digestive_Biscuit ( Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ) 
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    He supposedly found Christianity while in prison last time. I wonder what he’ll find this time.

    • Fluke ( Fluke@feddit.uk ) 
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      The business end of someone’s prison wallet tainted shiv, we can only hope.

      It would be doing humanity a favour if this grifting, racist enabling shitstain took his last gasping breath before he was released.

      • whatthey ( whatthey@feddit.uk ) 
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        Removed by mod

        • Fluke ( Fluke@feddit.uk ) 
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          Tell you what, I’ll meet you halfway.

          Let’s settle for stabbed in the spine so as to leave him shitting in a bag and being dependent on someone else to care for him and push him around for the rest of his wank-less life.

          He’d either fade into obscurity hiding from public attention, end himself, or -if this timeline is fucked enough- end up being a campaigner for the disabled, since it now affects him personally.

          • whatthey ( whatthey@feddit.uk ) 
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            Now that’s an Avenger storyline I can buy into.

            Sold!!

        • 𝙈𝙞𝙖 ( Quokka@quokk.au ) 
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          Eeesh prison rape jokes.

        • CandleTiger ( CandleTiger@programming.dev ) 
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          Do they really have martyrs, even? It seems like the far right are mostly chasing whatever grifter is currently pushing something for themselves. Dead people don’t push the grift anymore.

          Charlie Kirk seemed like a good candidate for martyr if anybody was but I’m not seeing much rallying around his name. Just a little bit of grift that his wife can keep active, not any big rallying flag.

          I say let the people pushing hate and death go ahead and die. Any old way of getting them off their podiums is fine with me; I’m not picky.

          • Echo Dot ( echodot@feddit.uk ) 
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            Yeah because Kirk was killed by someone on their side so they don’t want to bring too much attention to that.

            The killer was white, male, and a right wing extreme is nut job. There’s not much for them to work with there.

    • mannycalavera ( mannycalavera@feddit.uk ) 
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      Islam?

    • thanksforallthefish ( thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ) 
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      Islam would be ironic

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      Removed by mod

  • Echo Dot ( echodot@feddit.uk ) 
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    God I love the blue on blue going on here.

    He’s going down for attacking journalists at the mail. The Mail. Did this idiot forget which side his bread is buttered?

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    My coworker started chanting “Ten Years for Ten Names Tommy”

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    lol

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      A very astute observation, your Majesty.

      • HM King Charles III DG FD ( Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) 
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        One does find it rather amusing when Mr Stephen Yaxley-Lennon gets convicted of a crime and gurns about it on the World-Wide-Web

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    Do they enforce judgments against fascists over there or is it like America?

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    having 2 first name is always someone that is not to be trusted.

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