Tommy Robinson has consistently turned out to warn Britons about the problems brought to this country by Islam such as Islamic Rape Gangs and increasing levels of jihad. In the course of Mr Robinson’s work exposing these problems he livestreamed outside a court where alleged Muslim rapists were being tried. For doing that he has been sentenced to a prison term for contempt of court that looks to me and many others as if it is unduly severe. He is currently serving 13 months in a prison where little care appears to be being spent by the prison service on ensuring Mr Robinson’s safety.

Because of what I and others eee as a profound injustice, I attended the latest Free Tommy rally in London’s Whitehall yesterday. There were approximately to my estimatiom about 12000 of us who demonstrated for Mr Robinson’s release. These numbers were down from the previous demo of 15-20,000 and I put this down to the fact that Mr Robinson now has a firm appeal date of the 18th July and also the cost of attending demonstrations in London. The Free Tommy marchers are not, unlike the anti-Trump marchers we’ve seen recently in the capital, funded by weathy organisations, it’s ordinary people doing the best they can with the resources they have. Still 12,000 is a respectable turn out for a man who has been consistently and unjustly villified by the political class, the Left and the mainstream media.
This is a personal account of the latest Free Tommy rally. Because of that I cannot claim to have seen or heard everything but I will detail my experience and impressions.

After breakfast I put on my jacket and tie* and made my way to Temple Place where a pro-Trump demonstration was due to marshall up, parade along Northumberland Avenue and join the Free Tommy demonstrators in Whitehall. There was some issues it seemed with marshalling time and there was little to see at the appointed time there apart from a few pro Trump Britons and Neil Horan a defrocked Irish Priest who danced, dressed as a leprachaun holding a religious banner attacking President Trump. Horan was quite rightly ignored bhy the normal people but he made a good scene for the cameras.

Because of the issues with marshalling times I was worried that I may miss the start of the Free Tommy Rally proper in Whitehall so I left the pro Trump rally marshalling point and made my way along the Embankment, up Northumberland Avenue towards Trafalgar Square, All along this route there was a heavy police presence. When I got to Tragalgar Square I found a number of Free Tommy supporters sitting on the plinth that surrounds Nelson’s Column. They were chanting, waving flags and so on but were not being overtly violent or threatening to others. This mood changed however when the police decided to, heavy-handedly in my view, go after a middle aged woman who was holding a balloon shaped like the cartoon animal Peppa Pig to which an image of London mayor Sadiq Khan was stuck to it. This was obviously a comment on Khan’s decision to allow the infamous baby Trump blimp to fly in Parliament square during the previous day’s leftist-led anti-Trump demonstration.

The police persuaded the woman to come down from the plinth where she was sitting with a companion and surrounded her. This caused an immense amount of anger among many of the men that were watching a large group of police officers hassle a woman over something as minor as a balloon with Sadiq Khan’s face on it. The police really did look on this occasion like Khan’s private thug army and others may have thought that too as there was a minor scuffle with the police being pushed back against Nelson’s Column. There was a bottle thrown and the mounted police came in and trotted around a bit to intimidate people. I cannot confirm that the balloon woman was arrested and taken to the police station or not but I do know that the Khan balloon did not appear again. Later a random man at the Free Tommy demo who I spoke to about this incident said that the woman had been targeted as someone had been ‘offended’ by the Khan balloon. If this is truly the case then it shows just how politicised and poorly managed have the Metropolitan Police become.

Police remove a woman carrying a balloon that the police found objectionable from the plinth at Trafalga Square (picture by Fahrenheit211)

Eventually some level of calm was restored and I made my way down Whitehall to the rally point. There were some excellent speakers there including Gerard Batten the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party. There were also video messages from Lord Pearson of UKIP and from Geert Wilders of the Dutch Freedom Party. Other speakers in person were from the French nationalist party National Rally (formerly the Front National) and from a similar Swedish party the Swedish Democrats. The latter speaker came over very much more reasonable and non extreme than he and his party are painted by the mainstream media. Paul Gosar a Republican congressman from the USA also spoke and spoke movingly and passionately on the need to free Tommy and negatively compared freedom of speech in the UK to the better situation regarding free speech in the United States.  There was also, as a reader of this blog reminded me, a fantastic video message from the Republican supporting celebrity Joy Villa voicing her support for freedom of speech and the rally for Tommy itself.

This was, barring a few minor incidents that I witnessed, a relatively peaceful demonstration However it was a demonstration where the overwhelming impression I got was one that was made up of ordinary people who were angry. They were angry at what had been done to them and their families by Islam and some of its less than savoury followers along with anger at government policy that all too often leans towards appeasement of Islam.
I think the organisers of this rally did a brilliant job of putting this event together and Raheem Kassam did the MC job very well as usual. It was a show of anger at the injustice that Mr Robinson has suffered and it is an injustice that the legal system needs to remedy. If I have any criticism at all of the organisers then it is in regard to post rally dispersal. More stewards around at the end may have helped to propel more people to disperse more quickly and may have avoided the small sit down protest that blocked the path of busses traversing Trafalgar Square. The police aggravated the anger of these minority of protestors and I feel that this dispersal of the ‘last standers’ would have been accomplished more smoothly by the protest’s own stewards.

Apart from the small incidents that I observed at the start and end of the rally I have to say that this demonstration was a great success and is testament to the impact that Mr Robinson has had and how hard he has fought to expose the dark side of Islam in Britain. I can only hope and pray that wise counsels prevail in the government and legal system and Tommy Robinson is released back to his family.

*The reasons I wear jacket and tie for these events are a) they are patriot events and because of that I try to show some respect and look smart. b) I don’t want to be mistaken for a member of the Leftist opposition who almost invariably dress like tramps.