By Abdul Masih —
As the thorn in the flesh of the British political establishment, Tommy Robinson can now be said to have brought down Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who resigned July 20 after Labour could no longer cover up the grooming gangs that were allowed to rape and abuse up to 250,000 UK girls.
“The tendency of our country of birth, Great Britain, (is) to always try to deflect attention from this (grooming gang) scandal,” said journalist Douglas Murray. “Some of us have got a voice — and I feel at any rate rather privileged to have that that voice and try to use it. But a lot of people don’t.”
Tommy Robinson was something of street thug from Luton Town when his cousin was groomed and raped by Muslim gangs. He was outraged and began pressing the issue, but police and politicians were more afraid of being called racists than protecting girls.
The “system in which people who were meant to have a duty of care over vulnerable girls actually helped the rapists of those girls,” Murray said of what happened in Oxford. “It was utterly disgusting.”
For drawing attention to the systemic failure to protect vulnerable girls, Tommy was called a far-right racist. The British government persecuted him with lawfare, but the tough guy in him didn’t shut up and didn’t back down. It’s been street brawl for two decades, and maybe he’s guilty of his share of foul play.
But Tommy is not the only one the system has tried to silence. There was a Ann Cryer, a Labour MP who exposed what was happening in her district, Murray says. She was “smeared as an Islamophobe and a racist.”
“This attempt to shoot the messenger almost literally has been a consistent aspect of this story, Murray adds. “When I see people now talking about this story and trying to get on to the Tommy Robinson part of it, I can’t help thinking it’s yet another deflection.
“There are many things to be said in favor of him and what he’s done,” he continues. “There’s many things to be said criticizing some of his tactics and some of his words and much more. But essentially he is one of a quite large number actually not to be underestimated of a large number of working class people in this country who who saw this happen to relatives of theirs who were drugged and raped by Muslim gangs.
“And when they went to the police, they didn’t get any help,” Murray says. “When they went to the council, they didn’t get any help. When they went to their MPs, generally they didn’t get any help. If they organized a protest movement, so-called anti-fascist groups would immediately say their far-right because of course if you’re working class in our country and you don’t like the mass rape of young white girls, you necessarily must be a Nazi.”
