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 fifty 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, ie 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, ie, 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 even feminists, gays, and transgender people) and Islam, with Muslims presented as an 'oppressed racial (?) minority' and historic victims of Western 'white colonialism'.
Overpowering media hype depicts Tommy Robinson as a 'right-wing, racist thug'. He is always presented as the 'man who founded the English Defence League, a notorious haven for racist neo-Nazi types'. What they do not say is that while he founded and led the EDL to protest against the child-rape gangs, when he discovered it was being infiltrated by neofascist types such as members of the British National Party, he left it. He sees the problem as a conflict of cultures and belief systems. They wanted to turn it into a race war.
Is Tommy a Political Prisoner?
Robinson received an 18-month prison sentence on charges of contempt of court. After he defied a court order to show Silenced, a video he had made, to thousands of his supporters in Trafalgar Square in central London, the court order, which had banned the screening of Silenced, stemmed from a defamation civil case, brought against him by a 15-year-old Syrian refugee schoolboy, which Tommy lost.
Robinson has openly aligned himself with Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, encouraging his large following to back them at the polls. Farage, however, has made it clear that he distances both himself and his party from Robinson, stressing that Reform does not want any association with him or his supporters, citing Robinson’s criminal record and public reputation.
Much of that reputation stems from how his legal cases have been handled. While jury trials are normally seen as a safeguard of fairness in the British system, Robinson’s most serious punishments have come through contempt of court proceedings, which are decided by a judge alone rather than a jury. In one instance, after defying what he considered to be an unjust order, he was prosecuted for contempt under unusual circumstances, with political involvement playing a role in the process.
This means that the government was prosecuting Tommy for political reasons. So he is a political prisoner.
Enter Elon Musk
Then, at the end of last year, the world's richest man, with his enormous media reach, took issue with the prevailing media narrative on Tommy Robinson and with Farage's acceptance of it. Musk says Tommy Robinson is a political prisoner.
Musk is also generously putting his money where his mouth is and paying for a world-class legal team to go and help Tommy. There is certainly a lot for them to get their teeth into in the conduct of the legal processes that Tommy has been subjected to.
Perhaps they will find a route to appeal against these wrongs...
William Dick
William Dick | Political and Legal Journalist
