{"id":419480,"date":"2025-09-12T21:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419480\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:53:15","slug":"tommy-robinsons-far-right-london-rally-will-be-festival-of-hate-and-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419480\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Robinson’s far-right London rally will be festival of ‘hate and lies’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are set to deploy 1,600 officers on the streets of London fearing trouble with a counter March Against Facism, organised by Stand Up To Racism, along with potentially volatile football matches\"Anti-immigrationThe number of rallies and counter marches have increased in recent weeks(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

It is being billed as a festival of free speech, but for many communities, tomorrow\u2019s Unite The Kingdom rally in central London<\/a> will spread nothing but fear.<\/p>\n

Organiser Tommy Robinson<\/a> has assembled a motley crew of fellow far right activists and provided them with a platform to spew hatred and baseless conspiracy theories. They include a woman, nicknamed a “shieldmaiden of the far-right”, who claims \u201cwestern elites\u201d are trying to replace white Christians with immigrants.<\/p>\n

Other speakers apparently lined up include a German politician facing a criminal probe over Kremlin bribe claims, a Danish MEP who jokingly used a Nazi <\/a>greeting, and a Belgian politician who used the official motto of Hitler\u2019s feared SS paramilitary.<\/p>\n

\"Robinson,Robinson, 42, is due to be among the speakers who will take to the stage on Whitehall following tomorrow’s Unite The Kingdom march(Image: Anadolu via Getty Images)READ MORE: Police fear ‘storm of chaos’ with rival marches and football matches on same day<\/a>READ MORE: ‘My 14-year-old carved swastika into her head after being groomed by racists’<\/a><\/p>\n

Police have already expressed concerns for Muslims in the capital and Joe Mulhall, from Hope Not Hate, told the Mirror<\/a>: \u201cThe rally will be a major gathering of international far-right figures and shows that Stephen Lennon (Robinson\u2019s real name) is an influential figure in the global far-right scene. He has invited a host of well-known far-right actors from across Europe and the US to bring their hateful and divisive rhetoric to London.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of people are set to take to the streets for the march. It is due to begin near Waterloo Bridge at 1pm before speeches given, including by Robinson, from a stage on Whitehall.<\/p>\n

One speaker, Dutch-born Eva Vlaardingerbroek, 29 \u2013 dubbed \u201ca darling of the young Right\u201d \u2013 had a video removed by YouTube<\/a> last year for allegedly violating its hate speech policy. Titled \u2018The Great Replacement is not a theory \u2013 it\u2019s a reality\u2019, it featured her speech in Hungary spouting a discredited theory centred on the belief that ruling elites are actively trying to replace white Christian populations with immigrants in Western countries.<\/p>\n

\"VlaardingerbroekVlaardingerbroek has claimed the discredited Great Replacement Theory is reality(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

She claimed: \u201cIf we don\u2019t start to seriously fight for our continent, our religion, our people, our countries, then this time will go down in history as the time in which Western nations no longer had to get invaded by hostile armies in order to be conquered. The native white Christian European population is being replaced at an ever-accelerating rate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vlaardingerbroek, who claims London\u2019s native population has been outnumbered by migrants, added: \u201cOur new reality in Europe consists of frequent rapes, stabbings, killings, murders, shootings, even beheadings.\u201d She ended by saying: \u201cOur elites have declared a war on us and now it is time for us to put on the full armour of God, fight back, and win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another speaker to appear today is far right German MEP Petr Bystron. He is accused of receiving payments from the pro-Russian website \u2018Voice of Europe\u2019, in return for his commitment to speak and vote in the interests of the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

\"PetrPetr Bystron, member of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, is facing criminal proceedings in his homeland(Image: AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Danish MEP Morten Messerschmidt will also get a platform. In 2002, he got a suspended jail sentence for publishing material that appeared to suggest a link between a multi-ethnic society and rape, violence and forced marriages.<\/p>\n

And in 2007, he temporarily left the Danish People\u2019s Party after a newspaper accused him of praising Adolf Hitler. Messerschmidt won a lawsuit against the paper\u2019s editor and a journalist after the court accepted his explanation that his behaviour was a joke.<\/p>\n

Speaker Philip Dewinter, 62, is a senior figure in Belgium\u2019s Vlaams Belang party, which promotes Flemish nationalism and strict immigration control. In 2001, he was reportedly at speaker at a gathering of former SS collaborators, telling them \u201cMy honour is loyalty\u201d \u2013 the SS motto in the Second World War. This year he was accused of using a similar phrase and posing with a fascist flag.<\/p>\n

Other speakers include Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyski, pastor Brian Tamaki, Rebel News founder Ezra Levant and one of his reporters Avi Yemini.<\/p>\n

\"DominikDominik Tarczynski is chairman of the Polish delegation to the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Group in the European Parliament and has described Poland as the \u201clast stronghold of Christianity and normality\u201d in Europe(Image: SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Tarczyski, 46, was reportedly formerly a lay assistant to a British exorcist and a community organiser at Westminster Cathedral. He is a vocal supporter of US president Donald Trump<\/a> and has described Poland as the \u201clast stronghold of Christianity and normality\u201d in Europe.<\/p>\n

Brian Tamaki is the leader of Destiny Church, a Pentecostal Christian organisation, which he denies is a cult. He leads the Freedoms New Zealand party and has condemned homosexuality while claiming that Covid was a sign the world<\/a> has \u201cstrayed from God\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ezra Levant, 53, is the founder of far-right website Rebel News, described as a platform for the anti-Islamic ideology known as counter-jihad. Avi Yemini is an Australian-Israeli activist with a domestic abuse conviction who reports for Rebel News. The right-wing commentator was banned from Facebook<\/a> for hate speech violations.<\/p>\n

Ex-Apprentice star Katie Hopkins, ex- special forces soldier Ant Middleton and activist Sammy Woodhouse complete the line-up.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer Apprentice star Katie Hopkins is also set to among the speakers on stage in Whitehall(Image: Instagram\/ @_katie_hopkins_)<\/p>\n

Robinson, 42, has urged his supporters to refrain from wearing face coverings and not to drink heavily. But police fear trouble with a counter March Against Facism, organised by Stand Up To Racism, to take place at the same time along with potentially volatile football matches.<\/p>\n

Both marches are set to end with with speeches at opposite ends of Whitehall, where police say barriers will be in place to keep a large \u201csterile area\u201d between the two groups, with officers deployed there and on surrounding roads to \u201cminimise the risk of disorder\u201d if they try to come together.<\/p>\n

Over 1,600 police officers will be deployed across London, with 500 brought in from other forces and commander Clair Haynes noted anti-Muslim rhetoric and offensive chanting at previous marches.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice snatch squads scuffled with anti-fascist protesters at a previous event in London in August (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

She said: “We recognise that there are particular concerns for many in London\u2019s Muslim communities ahead of the \u2018Unite the Kingdom\u2019 protest given the record of anti-Muslim rhetoric and incidents of offensive chanting by a minority at previous marches. There have been some suggestions that Muslim Londoners should change their behaviour this Saturday, including not coming into town. That is not our advice. Everyone should be able to feel safe travelling into and around London.<\/p>\n

“Our officers are there to ensure that is the case and we\u2019d urge anyone who is out on Saturday and feels concerned to speak to us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are set to deploy 1,600 officers on the streets of London fearing trouble with a counter March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[13861,748,23272,32,393,143605,4884,143606,257,285,24155,130705,1377,59423,16,15,2642,1737],"class_list":{"0":"post-419480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-adolf-hitler","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-domestic-violence","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-ezra-levant","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-katie-hopkins","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-soldiers","19":"tag-special-forces","20":"tag-the-apprentice","21":"tag-tommy-robinson","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-world-war-2","25":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115193551969937630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}