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The Tommy Robinson -outiders were at Epping early. Wendell Daniel, a former work council who is now a filmmaker for Robinson’s urban scoop video platform, converted his microphone to a young woman on the sidelines of protests in the city of Essex.
“Take a look at that,” he said, pointing to the camera. “Talk to Tommy, tell him that you want to see that he will come down here.”
“Tommy,” she replied, “I think you should definitely come down because you will help the situation so much more.”
Robinson, 42, whose real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is, quickly replied: “Listen that you are loud and clear that I will come to Epping the next Sunday and brought thousands more.
For days, according to the indictment of an Ethiopian asylum seeker, Epping has been in front of the city of the city in front of the city of the city – recently arrived on a small boat – with sexual attacks against a local girl.
With the deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and the conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who asked the risk of further spread, it was the perfect opportunity for Robinson, with a so -called “migrant hotel”, which focused on.
Twenty of four hours later, Robinson seemed to have become cold. It could not benefit him and it could not benefit, he considered in front of the camera.
An unpleasant Volte face may appear, but Lucy Brown, once a right woman from Robinson, who recorded every stunt and provocative comment for social media for two years, had already seen everything.
The 34-year-old suggested an insight into his frustrating tendency, instincts and trust in the colorful team behind him.
“He is very reactive,” said Brown about Robinson. “It is often only what comes in his head. He quickly believes in his own myth. It probably needs a number of messages from people who say:” Don’t do it “. And after all, he has to say reluctantly:” Oh, maybe it’s not a good idea. “
“He just becomes in whatever feels right at the time. He just doesn’t think. That’s why he falls into it [to] Prison all the time because he always says things that he shouldn’t. “
Brown was with Robinson in some of the most important moments at the beginning of his ascent, including escorting for a very lucrative first meeting with Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist by Donald Trump. Bannon believed that he was ex-Army, a confused Robinson who told her at that time. Brown left Robinson’s team after a bruise failed, but suspected that his enthusiasm for Epping was dulled when he was called by his entourage when he stays away from the local protests to keep away.
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Robinson seems to be a one-man band that is particularly strong. This week, Robinson sent an e -mail to the followers to collect 106,000 GBP to finance an upcoming demonstration according to a recipient.
In truth, the 42-year-old sits in the center of an ecosystem of long-term acolyths and newer hangers that are crucial to make it easier for even his toughest critics to be a successful campaign to focus on the national debate.
When Robinson in HMP Woodhill checked his “detention in solitary confinement and treatment”, where he was imprisoned against a 15-year-old Syrian refugee in the infall against a court statement, the judge decided against him that it was his protection and he had “80 social visits, not in family members”.
When Robinson left the prison, he told a friendly podcaster that he had planned from his cell and that the demonstration of the kingdom in London on September 13 with the help of regular communication with his lieutenants should be held.
Then who is Team Tommy? Brown, who moved to Bedfordshire at a time to work more closely with Robinson, stopped working with him seven years ago, but the core around him has remained remarkably stable, according to Joe Mulhall, research director at Hope NOT.
When Robinson HMP left Woodhill, he gratefully gratefully helped himself at the levels of prison for Ezra Levant, the Canadian owner of Rebel Media, which resembles the better -known Breitbart, that he had helped his family during his prison.
Nine years ago he started paying Robinson £ 200 per video for Rebel. The platform generates income from donations from spectators and crowdfunding campaigns. Brown, who was the helping hand with the camera at the beginning of this relationship, said Robinson had become a great earner for the businessman.
“Ezra Levant is very important, definitely like the show runner, and it is fascinating to see him nearby,” she said. “He is the one who goes with the court proceedings [former Sun journalist] Dan Wootton and turns the story to make sure everyone knows that Tommy is actually the victim, boys. He immortalized the Tommy myth, even though he sees it up close. But it’s a business for him. “
While it was with Levant that Robinson carried out his first interview after leaving the prison, the second in a podcast called the dozen of Liam Tuffs, the son of Peter Gillett, was a registered sex offender who was said by Reggie Kray about his “adoptive son”.
Tuffs, who runs a security company and described his father as a “animal” and “narcissist”, has figures like Laurence Fox (interviewed in an episode with the title “British Culture Is Under Attce”), but he also has Adam Kelwick, the Imam in the Abdullah Quilliam Quilliam Mosque, in Liverpool with the Mosle -Mosle in Lipol presented. Islam ”).
“He is a friend of Tommy who is going on stage from time to time and is deserved for him,” said Brown by Tuffs, who is seen as a calming influence on Robinson, in which ADHD was diagnosed. “I saw how he runs his way into it. He likes to tell the people that he helps Tommy to become sober, but I am not sure whether we can trust Tommy to be sober to be honest with them.”
It was Tufts and Guramit Singh, a former leading member of the English Defense League (EDL), the last month at Robinson in the Hawksmoor restaurant in the London Air Street when they were asked to go because the employees “served him uncomfortably”.
Singh from Nottingham was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison for his role in a robbery in the event of a robbery in 2013, in which a shop assistant captured the ground and had the threat of smashing his throat if he did not hand over cash.
There is another tranche of Robinson supporters at Urban Scoop, the so-called website “Independent Journalism”, for which Robinson is a consultant. It was set up by Adam Geary, better known as “NEM”, and one of Robinson’s closest advisors since the rough and prepared days of the EDL.
You give Tom everything and he just wants more and more until you have nothing to give. And then he doesn’t want to get to know you
Robinson today emphasizes the peace of the protests he organizes and the relationship with the police he wanted to build. But Brown said that those who crossed him were very aware of his ruthlessness.
In his biography, Tommy, the founder of Hope Not Hate, Nick Lowles, reported how Robinson did not visit his cousin Kev Carroll, a former director of the EDL, when he was caught in custody after being caught with a machete on the bonnet of a car.
“I am 52 years old and have nothing to show for it,” wrote Carroll later. “You give Tom everything and he just wants more and more until you have nothing to give. And then he doesn’t want to know you.”
Lowles remembered how Robinson headed him together with the “homemade bomb maker” Peter Keeley in his house to accuse him of paying people to “invent information about him”. His behavior towards a female reporter at The Independent, after examining his finances, forced her to apply for a preliminary stalking order.
Then what does people stop at Robinson’s side? “Many of these boys around him seem to have the same type of mode operandi to protect the source – because I think they will probably also make money with him,” said Brown. “Many of them have their own little YouTube channels with different success.”
Her experience with Robinson had a darkness, she said. She remembered “the shady boys who look and dress exactly what he looks like” and the binges of drinks and drugs. Your memoirs, the hate club, are expected to record some of the Sleazi moments with him in their time if they publish themselves next month. Robinson has admitted that in the past he has refused to use strong drug use while he denied the claims to use donations to buy cocaine and pay the services of sex workers.
But he has a charisma that attracts people to his circle, said Brown, who is married to Sascha Bailey, the son of photographer David Bailey.
“It is like he’s near Peter Pan or something,” she said. “You just have to maintain the myth. You are either in or out. He blows and feed them all, you know. ‘Come out.
