Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - Revision history

Melissa Jones at 05:08, 16 January 2018

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Melissa Jones at 05:01, 16 January 2018

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Clementine Boucher at 15:20, 7 December 2016

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Hilary Aked: /* Pegida UK */

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Pegida UK

Hilary Aked: /* Post-EDL support for 'anti-Islamisation movements' */

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Post-EDL support for 'anti-Islamisation movements'

Hilary Aked at 18:42, 16 December 2015

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Hilary Aked: /* Activities */

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Activities

Hilary Aked: /* Pegida UK */

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Pegida UK

Hilary Aked at 18:19, 16 December 2015

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Hilary Aked at 18:15, 16 December 2015

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−	[[Category:UK\|Robinson, Tommy]][[Category:EDL\|Robinson, Tommy]][[Category:Counterjihad\|Robinson, Tommy]][[Category:Islam Critics\|Robinson, Tommy]]	+	[[Category:UK\|Robinson, Tommy]][[Category:EDL\|Robinson, Tommy]][[Category:Counterjihad\|Robinson, Tommy]][[Category:Islam Critics\|Robinson, Tommy]][[[[Category:Islamophobia\|Robinson, Tommy]]

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 Lennon has also used passports in the names Andrew McMaster and Paul Harris.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20935502 EDL leader Stephen Lennon jailed for false passport offence], BBC News, 7 January 2013</ref>
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 ====Germany====
-Yaxley-Lennon has supported the anti-Islam movement [[PEGIDA]] in Germany but has been critical of attempts to start a [[Pegida UK]]. In October 2015 he spoke at the one year anniversary rally of [[PEGIDA]] in Dresden. The rally came two days after a pro-refugee mayoral candidate in Cologne was stabbed in the neck by a man with a neo-Nazi background.<ref>Imogen Calderwood, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3279659/German-far-right-activists-accuse-Angela-Merkel-treason-hold-night-time-floodlit-rally-Dresden-mark-anniversary-anti-immigrant-group.html 'Do not let Germany be dragged back to chaos and destruction': EDL founder Tommy Robinson speaks to 40,000 strong crowd at the Pegida anti-immigrant rally in Germany], Daily Mail, 19 October 2015</ref> In December 2015 he announced at a rally in Dresden that he would lead Pegida UK.
+Yaxley-Lennon has supported the anti-Islam movement [[PEGIDA]] in Germany but has been critical of attempts to start a [[Pegida UK]]. In October 2015 he spoke at the one-year anniversary rally of [[PEGIDA]] in Dresden. The rally came two days after a pro-refugee mayoral candidate in Cologne was stabbed in the neck by a man with a neo-Nazi background.<ref>Imogen Calderwood, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3279659/German-far-right-activists-accuse-Angela-Merkel-treason-hold-night-time-floodlit-rally-Dresden-mark-anniversary-anti-immigrant-group.html 'Do not let Germany be dragged back to chaos and destruction': EDL founder Tommy Robinson speaks to 40,000 strong crowd at the Pegida anti-immigrant rally in Germany], Daily Mail, 19 October 2015</ref> In December 2015 he announced at a rally in Dresden that he would lead Pegida UK.
 ====France====

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 ====Netherlands====
 Yaxley-Lennon was a speaker at the launch of the Dutch PEGIDA branch in October 2015.
 ===Pegida UK===

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	When speaking to a [[PEGIDA]] rally in Dresden, Germany, Lennon told the crowd that the first [[PEGIDA UK]] action, set to take place on 6 February, would be part of simultaneous demonstration planned for the same day in 12 European countries - including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland as well as the UK - under the slogan 'Save our Country. Save our Culture. Save Our Future.' According to journalist [[Jamie Bartlett]], if it goes ahead it could be 'the first time different Right-wing, anti-immigration street movements have worked together so closely'.<ref>Jamie Bartlett, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/12031679/Across-Europe-with-Tommy-Robinson-inside-the-new-wave-of-anti-immigration-protest-coming-soon-to-Britain.html Across Europe with Tommy Robinson: inside the new wave of anti-immigration protest coming soon to Britain], ''The Telegraph'', 4 December 2015</ref>		When speaking to a [[PEGIDA]] rally in Dresden, Germany, Lennon told the crowd that the first [[PEGIDA UK]] action, set to take place on 6 February, would be part of simultaneous demonstration planned for the same day in 12 European countries - including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland as well as the UK - under the slogan 'Save our Country. Save our Culture. Save Our Future.' According to journalist [[Jamie Bartlett]], if it goes ahead it could be 'the first time different Right-wing, anti-immigration street movements have worked together so closely'.<ref>Jamie Bartlett, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/12031679/Across-Europe-with-Tommy-Robinson-inside-the-new-wave-of-anti-immigration-protest-coming-soon-to-Britain.html Across Europe with Tommy Robinson: inside the new wave of anti-immigration protest coming soon to Britain], ''The Telegraph'', 4 December 2015</ref>
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		+	===Mohammed cartoon exhibition / 'civil war' plot===
		+	In June 2015, Lennon met with other far-right activists including [[Anne Marie Waters]] of [[Sharia Watch UK]], [[Alan Ayling]], a former funder of the [[English Defence League]] and [[Jim Dowson]], formerly leader of [[Britain First]]. The group planned to host an exhibition of Mohammed cartoon exhibitions in September that year and according to Dowson - who blew the whistle on the plan on his [[Knights Templar]] blog - they hoped to spark a civil war.<ref>[http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/nick/the-muhammad-cartoon-exhibition-free-speech-and-the-counter-jihadists-4543 The Muhammad cartoon exhibition, free speech and the counter-jihadists], Hope Not Hate, 27 July 2015</ref>

	===Book===		===Book===

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 Yaxley-Lennon later claimed to have received about £8,000 by Quilliam, and the organisation admitted to the '''Huffington Post''' in 2015, that it had paid him for outreach work in the period following his departure from the EDL. Quilliam disputed however Yaxley-Lennon's claims over the nature of their financial agreement, which he described as 'being paid to quit the EDL'.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/03/tommy-robinson-claims-quilliam-paid-him-to-leave-edl_n_8710834.html Tommy Robinson, Former EDL Leader, Claims Quilliam Paid Him To Quit Far-Right Group], ''Huffington Post'', 4 December 2015.</ref>
-===Post-EDL support for 'anti-Islamisation movements'===
+===Post-EDL support for 'anti-Islamisation' movements===
 Since leaving the [[English Defence League]], Yaxley-Lennon has promoted a number of 'anti-Islamisation' / anti-Islam movements to his considerable Twitter following.

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 When speaking to a [[PEGIDA]] rally in Dresden, Germany, Lennon told the crowd that the first [[PEGIDA UK]] action, set to take place on 6 February, would be part of simultaneous demonstration planned for the same day in 12 European countries - including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland as well as the UK - under the slogan 'Save our Country. Save our Culture. Save Our Future.' According to journalist [[Jamie Bartlett]], if it goes ahead it could be 'the first time different Right-wing, anti-immigration street movements have worked together so closely'.<ref>Jamie Bartlett, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/12031679/Across-Europe-with-Tommy-Robinson-inside-the-new-wave-of-anti-immigration-protest-coming-soon-to-Britain.html Across Europe with Tommy Robinson: inside the new wave of anti-immigration protest coming soon to Britain], ''The Telegraph'', 4 December 2015</ref>
 ==Affiliations==
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 *Defunct Facebook page [http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000143580170 Tommy Robinson]
 *Post-EDL Twitter account [https://twitter.com/trobinsonnewera @TRobinsonNewEra]
 ==External resources==

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-<youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="Former BNP member Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, speaking at the launch of PEGIDA Netherlands in Utrecht, 11 October 2015">52icPvPWXKo</youtube><br>
+<youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="Former BNP member Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, speaking at the launch of PEGIDA Netherlands in Utrecht, 11 October 2015">52icPvPWXKo</youtube>
 ===Convictions===
 In July 2011, Yaxley-Lennon was found guilty of "using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour" during a clash between rival football fans in Luton on 24 August 2010.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-14278957 EDL founder Stephen Lennon guilty over football brawl], BBC News, 25 July 2011.</ref>

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	Lennon remained with the group after former soldier [[Timothy Scott]], named as the new [[PEGIDA UK]] leader, was ridiculed for giving a 'car-crash' interview to Channel Four News and quit the role two days later.<ref>Steven Hopkins, [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/05/pegida-uk-leader-timothy-scott-resigns_n_8727296.html Pegida UK Leader Timothy Scott Quits After 'Epic Fail' Channel 4 interview, 'Confirms He Does Not Have PTSD'], Huffington Post, 5 December 2015</ref>		Lennon remained with the group after former soldier [[Timothy Scott]], named as the new [[PEGIDA UK]] leader, was ridiculed for giving a 'car-crash' interview to Channel Four News and quit the role two days later.<ref>Steven Hopkins, [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/05/pegida-uk-leader-timothy-scott-resigns_n_8727296.html Pegida UK Leader Timothy Scott Quits After 'Epic Fail' Channel 4 interview, 'Confirms He Does Not Have PTSD'], Huffington Post, 5 December 2015</ref>
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		+	When speaking to a [[PEGIDA]] rally in Dresden, Germany, Lennon told the crowd that the first [[PEGIDA UK]] action, set to take place on 6 February, would be part of simultaneous demonstration planned for the same day in 12 European countries - including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland as well as the UK - under the slogan 'Save our Country. Save our Culture. Save Our Future.' According to journalist [[Jamie Bartlett]], if it goes ahead it could be 'the first time different Right-wing, anti-immigration street movements have worked together so closely'.<ref>Jamie Bartlett, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/12031679/Across-Europe-with-Tommy-Robinson-inside-the-new-wave-of-anti-immigration-protest-coming-soon-to-Britain.html Across Europe with Tommy Robinson: inside the new wave of anti-immigration protest coming soon to Britain], ''The Telegraph'', 4 December 2015</ref>

	==Affiliations==		==Affiliations==

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	[[Tommy Robinson]] is the pseudonym of the former leader in the far right [[English Defence League]]. According to the ''Guardian'', he is a 28-year-old carpenter from Luton.<ref>Robert Booth, Matthew Taylor and Paul Lewis, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/english-defence-league-chaotic-alliance English Defence League: chaotic alliance stirs up trouble on streets], The Guardian, 12 September 2007</ref>		[[Tommy Robinson]] is the pseudonym of the former leader in the far right [[English Defence League]]. According to the ''Guardian'', he is a 28-year-old carpenter from Luton.<ref>Robert Booth, Matthew Taylor and Paul Lewis, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/english-defence-league-chaotic-alliance English Defence League: chaotic alliance stirs up trouble on streets], The Guardian, 12 September 2007</ref>