Tommy Robinson is a working-class man from Luton, a town near London. For years, he has devoted himself to denouncing the mass child-rape by gangs of predominantly Pakistani Muslim men, known euphemistically as 'grooming gangs', in 50 cities in the UK.
The 'Grooming Gangs'
They have been operating for decades, undisturbed by local authorities and police, scared of being accused of "racism". The victims are in the tens of thousands. Underage, working-class English girls were targeted by gangs who exploited their vulnerability with small gifts or favors, before subjecting them to drugging, rape, trafficking, and prostitution. The victims were not only white but also included girls from Indian, Sikh, and Hindu backgrounds - in short, non-Muslim minorities.
Andrew Norfolk, a journalist at The Times, also ran stories on this scandal. There were official reports on some cases in some towns. There have been some prosecutions and convictions. However, it was not only local authorities who 'covered up' or minimized these nefarious activities, failing to stop them. The government provided little to no support for a national inquiry before June 2025 and initially turned it down.
The government produced a Home Office Report, which stated:
“Right-wing extremists frequently exploit cases of alleged group-based sexual abuse to promote anti-Muslim sentiment as well as related anti-government and anti-‘political correctness’ narratives."
Hate Rules vs. Free Speech
A government Committee on Islamophobia is now to establish a criminal offence of 'Islamophobia'. Critics say this will reintroduce a blasphemy law into the UK, but only to 'protect' the religious sensitivities of Muslims, not of other religions. Critics of the child-rape gangs, and in particular of the religious affiliations of the perpetrators, are very likely to be targeted.
There is already a police system of recording 'Non-Crime Hate Incidents' against a person's name if they post comments on social media which fall foul of perceptions by one of the hundreds of police officers employed to trawl through the millions of posts on social media, that the words used could incite anti-Muslim sentiments in readers.
One victim of this system was Allison Pearson, who is a well-known columnist on the Daily Telegraph. When she received a visit from two police officers on Remembrance Sunday morning, this caused an uproar. In her case, the recording of the 'incident' was erased. But for many others, less famous, this black mark against their names remains. It can lead to a criminal investigation, trial, and conviction under the existing 'Hate Laws, ' and there are people now in prison because of it. Even if it does not develop into a prosecution, it can mean that a job application is refused.
The Case Against Tommy
Tommy Robinson is in jail. He is also in solitary confinement, 'for his own protection', since there are many jihadist inmates in the prison he is in, and they want to kill him. His supporters say he has been targeted by the establishment for having denounced not only the child-rape gangs, and the deliberate failure by the local authorities and police to do anything to stop them, but also because he cited the passages in the Holy Koran used by the rapists to justify what they were doing – the same as those used by the terrorists of ISIS when they raped and reduced to sexual slavery the unfortunate Yazidi girls whom they had conquered.
Under Islamic doctrine, every line in the Koran is the literal word of God Himself as dictated to Mohammed by the archangel Gabriel. Drawing attention to this makes it more difficult to explain away the gangs as 'extremists' who are twisting their religion for their own wicked purposes. This casts the whole religion in a terrible light, as a religion not of peace, but of violence and wickedness.
There are 4 million Muslims in the UK with citizenship and voting rights. They make a bloc vote. In the last General Election, if they all voted Labour (and most of them surely did), they would have contributed over 40% of the total Labour vote (9.7 million, 34% of the total votes cast), giving Labour its enormous majority of seats (411, i.e. 63% of the total seats, thanks to the UK's system of voting).
With this system, in each constituency the candidate who comes first takes the seat, and votes taken by other candidates are binned, wasted. This is why the Muslim vote is essential to Labour's supremacy in Parliament, and surely a primary reason why the Labour government is now enacting so many Muslim demands.
Other reasons include the weird love affair between the Left (including feminists, gays, and transgender people) and Islam, with Muslims presented as an 'oppressed racial minority' and historic victims of Western 'white colonialism'.
The media frenzy around Tommy Robinson paints him as a 'right-wing, racist thug' - the man who founded the English Defence League (EDL), often described as a haven for neo-Nazis and racists. What’s rarely mentioned is that Robinson originally founded the EDL to protest against child-rape gangs. When he realised the group was being infiltrated by genuine far-right extremists, including members of the British National Party, he walked away. For Robinson, the issue was always one of culture and belief systems but others sought to twist it into a race war.
Is Tommy a Political Prisoner?
Tommy Robinson was sentenced to 18-months in prison for contempt of court after defying a court order that had banned the public screening of Silenced, a film he had produced. Despite the injunction, Robinson went ahead and showed the video to thousands of his supporters gathered in Trafalgar Square. The ban had been imposed in connection with an ongoing defamation case brought against him by a 15-year-old Syrian refugee schoolboy, a case Robinson ultimately lost.
Robinson has publicly thrown his support behind Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, urging his substantial following to vote for them. Farage, however, has been quick to distance both himself and his party from Robinson, making clear that Reform does not seek, or welcome, any association with him or his supporters, pointing to Robinson’s criminal record and controversial public image.
Much of Robinson’s controversial reputation stems from the way his legal cases have been handled. While jury trials are typically considered a cornerstone of fairness in the British legal system, many of his harshest punishments arose from contempt of court proceedings, which are decided solely by a judge rather than a jury. In one notable case, after defying an order he believed to be unjust, he was prosecuted for contempt under highly unusual circumstances, with political factors influencing the process.
These circumstances suggest that Robinson was targeted for political reasons, effectively making him a political prisoner.
Enter Elon Musk
Then, at the end of last year, the world’s richest man, with his vast media influence, challenged the prevailing narrative about Tommy Robinson, and criticized Farage for accepting it. Elon Musk has publicly stated that Tommy Robinson is a political prisoner.
Musk is also backing his words with action, funding a world-class legal team to support Robinson. Given the irregularities and political interference in the legal processes Robinson has faced, there is certainly a lot for the team to scrutinize.
Perhaps, through this renewed legal effort, they will find a way to appeal and address these injustices.
William Dick
William Dick | Political and Legal Journalist
