{"id":315263,"date":"2025-09-14T07:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315263"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:50:07","slug":"why-tommy-robinson-rally-was-different-to-any-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315263","title":{"rendered":"Why Tommy Robinson rally was different to any other"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Cheshire \u2013 Sky News Sept 14, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

This was the biggest nationalist rally in recent memory – perhaps ever.<\/p>\n

Well before the march started, thousands of people flowed over Blackfriars bridge, or came up from Waterloo station, flags everywhere, hailing from everywhere – from Yorkshire roses to the diamond of the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n

What exactly it was that “United the Kingdom”<\/a><\/strong> was left vague, for people to cheer their own particular cause.<\/p>\n

This was billed as a free speech rally and the most common chants we heard were “Keir Starmer’s a w*****r”, “oh Tommy Tommy” and “we want our country back”.<\/p>\n

That means different things to different people.<\/p>\n

Dawn, up from Southampton and wearing a red sequined jacket, said it was because the country was “getting overrun”. She said she was talking only about illegal migration.<\/p>\n

Others didn’t draw that distinction.<\/p>\n

Danny from south Birmingham was holding a sign that said: “Send them Back” – and said he was unhappy with migration “in general”. He came to “stand up for what we believe in, the religion and identity of our country”.<\/p>\n

That’s been a difference with this rally compared to past ones I’ve covered – an overt Christian nationalism.<\/p>\n

People carried wooden crosses. One person had a light-up crucifix<\/p>\n

When the crowd arrived at Whitehall, they were led from the stage in a chant of ‘Christ is king’. And then a public recital of the Lord’s Prayer shortly after that. It’s an important difference. Not just a flag to rally around, but a religion too.<\/p>\n

At the centre of it all, the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When Robinson took the stage, it was more like a football match or festival than a political rally.<\/p>\n

“We rode the storm, we weathered the storm, and today we are the storm,” he shouted hoarsely.<\/p>\n

That’s not much of an exaggeration, not when Elon Musk<\/a><\/strong>, the world’s richest man, made a virtual appearance to back Robinson.<\/p>\n

Other speakers included those who can be uncontroversially classed as far right. And thugs clashed violently with police.<\/p>\n

And it’s clear that simply writing off protesters as far right doesn’t really capture what’s going on either. The audience is too broad to fit just that label.<\/p>\n

The tinderbox summer of protest promised by activists never really caught flame. Instead, there has been the slow, steady burn of nationalism.<\/p>\n

This was its culmination but also, those here hoped, the beginning of something even bigger.<\/p>\n

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We have no time for Tommy Robinson, a suspected Zionist double agent. However, the fact that as many as 150,000 gathered to protest in London signifies a major shift in the UK political landscape. The traditional Labour\/Conservative rivalry is now totally redundant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":315265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315272,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315263\/revisions\/315272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}