UK: You're Not Allowed to Talk about It. About What? Don't Ask.

If we in the UK ignore the mistreatment of Tommy Robinson for drawing attention to the issue and ignore the plight of thousands of young abused girls, we are buying into the same mentality of 1939 Germany - "we are not Jewish, it isn't happening to us and saying something gets you into trouble" dilemma that kept most Germans too afraid to speak up for the Jews, for fear of state retribution (which was very real) or too conditioned into thinking they were less than human to care. This is a class issue in the UK as well. Many of the liberal middle classes and media/politicians clearly despise their working class fellow countrymen and are also too afraid to mention something so unfashionable to speak of in case someone calls them racist or common for mentioning it, or in case the police state persecute them. A labour MP Sarah Champion had to step down for mentioning the grooming issue - she was not lying or exaggerating, but it is a crime to speak the truth in the UK, as it was in 1930's Germany.

Gerald Batten asked: "I am trying to recall a legal case where someone was convicted of a 'crime' which cannot be reported on...Can anyone remember such a case?"

To which the award-winning blogger known as the "Secret Barrister" responded by citing "a handy example" in order to refute the charge that UK authorities are singling Robinson out for unique censorship.

That example turned out to be Robinson's previous contempt-of-court trial last year! Except the legal expert artfully disguised this fact, by using Robinson's legal name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

If this guy were just the "idiot" the Left makes him out to be, there would be no attempt to keep the legal proceedings against him out of the public eye.

The Israelis are watching this whole process closely, with no hesitation on reporting it.

Britain has evolved from a respected nation with a sound government to a lawless nation where money is god. The distraction of Brexit negotiations are being used to fill the void of its rulers to allow lawlessness to flourish. Those intent on evil employ every tactic to inflict the marginalisation of God fearing people. This activity goes unchallenged as expected. There will be a few more Tommys to follow no doubt.

Several years ago I posted on the Daily Mail blog that islam was incompatible with Western standards and that the ongoing celebrity sex-scandal witch-hunts were deliberately orchestrated to act as a smoke-screen to shield the muslim grooming gangs who were then being brought to the courts. My post was blocked and I received an extremely threatening email from the Daily Mail saying that I was banned and if I attempted to post again my employers would be contacted.

Two things:-
1. I'm self-employed/retired, so that puts paid to their stupid threats even if they had any credence in the first place, and
2. I had clearly hit the nail right on the head.

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" Kevin Alfred Storm.

People are being actively hunted down by the police for criticizing Islam in Europe. In England's case, they tell the populace they don't have the resources to fight actual crime but has more than enough to monitor thought crime on social media and arrest the offenders. It is also stated that by order of the current Pope mosques are being built at a rapid pace across Europe. Has anyone asked why this is?

At the rate things are going in the UK, we may have to pull their arse out of the fire again!

Alas, poor England........a land of neutered sheep

"The proof of the pudding" could not be more powerful! What happened in the late 1700's, and was tested by English invasion of USA in 1812, cannot be more indelible. I've always felt a kinship to British folks, but the U.S. Constitution is where that ends. I always would tell myself, "they do have the Magna Carta," but obviously in Mr. Tommy Robinson's case, the stigma of arbitrary "political correctness" has prevailed for Great Britain. (for shame!) Anyone wondering about the future of the beautiful, historic, cathedrals in the UK has to feel rejection by a government which lacks the fortitude which has carried Britons throughout a great British history. In addition, what Mr. Tommy Robinson has been exposing is a reality that demands courageous action, which happens now to be totally absent in lieu of Socialism and worse, P.C.! May God bless Great Britain to guide her return to faith and true protection of the British people. Hopefully, decent political leadership will arise and the government scared of its own shadow will be sent packing.

Now I know why our founding fathers put "freedom of the press" into our constitution. When I first heard the story about Tommy, I couldn't understand how anyone could be arrested for reporting on the story. Fortunately I have a good friend who lives in the UK and he explained to me that they have no "freedom of the press" there. I was shocked. Maybe someone will start a movement to have a "freedom" clause written into the UK's by-laws. In the meantime, I will remain stupefied by the stupid act of the UK's police state. Hell, why didn't you just join Hitler in World War II?

Thank God we have the writ of habeas corpus here in America. This type of prosecution has been going on in England for centuries, and our founding fathers knew the dangers inherent in a totalitarian state. Perhaps someone should promote this right in the U.K.

Not a right wing activist? Being the former spokesman of the EDF does probably deserve that qualifier.

We can't see the cultural 'water' we swim in! Seems to me Tommy Robinson was imprisoned for 'incitement' despite the fact that there was no one there to incite. It's a great pity that he was ever associated with the more radical elements of the far right OR that THEY chose to associate their views with his. He's dammed by association.

Incredible! Who would think that could happen in England in this day and age?! The question I want to ask Theresa May is: 1. Why did the police feel the need to arrest him, as he was not doing anything wrong or hurting anyone? and 2. How is this response to what he was doing civil or acceptable? Who is giving the orders to the police? What is going on? If this is what it looks like - a police state - the people need to rise up and storm the parliament. People need to do what the elites don't want you to do ie. talk about it everywhere and tell anyone who will hear. This is NOT acceptable in a free society, EVER.

What happened to Tommy Robinson shows all the sign of STALIN Soviet Russia where a knock at the door at night and taken away many never to be seen again. If any one asked what happen to their friends they know they will be next ( which is like a new blackout ) So why is our government trying to cover up the Truth of what is going on in our country OR maybe they like the raping of our children?

The Americans have free speech laws. UK citizens have hate speech laws. Thank you VERY MUCH Mrs. May.

Disgusting beyond belief. Unheard of in a western country with a presumed innocent until proven guilty at trial. Ans the guy was just reporting on the trial as it was going along - what any good court reporter does.

Re: "(Sargon) made it clear he was not about to violate the gag order -- not, as he put it, about to "blunder into the jaws of the beast, in much the same way as I guess Tommy has," and thus "deliberately put myself in the line of fire with the UK government, giving them just cause to arrest me.""

No, SOA - that wouldn't have been "just cause" it is an illegal gag order.

It is, in fact, in itself a CRIME.

If only those brave Brits who gave their lives in WWII could see what is happening now they would probably wonder who really won that war.

Simply a Right Wing Activist is ANYONE who is not in agreement with the current political narrative. He/she is someone who values their sense of a national identity and culture. A one world cannot exist with differing cultures.

The breadth of the gag order's coverage and the measures taken to enforce it are exceptional and deeply disturbing. I assume it will be lifted as soon as a trial verdict is announced, or am I wrong about that?

Hull Prison should be nicknamed, and known thereafter, as the "Bastille of the Closed Mind".

The Australian Press, it seems, is obeying the UK gag order too as not a mention of this case has hit the media here. Mind you not surprising with the Australian media dominated as it is by Rupert Murdoch.

The Star Chamber has returned to Britain as if it ever went away. Such a sad decline of a once mighty empire and now they deserve everything they get as a consequence of leaving Europe.

Robinson was simply pointing out the fact that males of "Middle Eastern" appearance have have been rather prominent in a series of child groomings and rape across Britain and the authorities want to bury their heads in the sand.

The UK stands condemned.

I happened to notice when people behave like today's leadership there is inevitably a financial motive.
The West is compelled to play ball which they wouldn't do if there were nothing to gain. Islam not only hates the things which were initially introduced to by Muhammad by Jews and Christians, they carry out executions in broad daylight. The impact of all that's going cannot be solved by the usual political pedantry, and disingenuousness of a government laughing in the faces of their citizens while they unconscionably sell their souls at the additional expense of the citizens they have sworn to serve -- it reminds me of days of antiquity when a bad king was born and the people were stuck with him for the duration of his life, as he officiated one nightmare after another and heads regularly rolled off the chopping block. Now that kingdom is about to control the world. Hell is positioning itself for the world to be handed over in a handbasket -- the leadership is making certain it is accomplished supported by a deceived liberalized public.

I from Canada and cannot believe of the injustice perpetrated on Tommy and the British people!
To be arrested and tried and sent to prison for 13 months all on one day is an abuse of the legal system.
A sad day for English common law. And not giving the accused a chance to mount a defence is dispicable.

World War 2 was about protecting freedoms, including freedom of speech.
The NAZI's had secret trials and hated free speech.
It would appear to the world that the UK has now become a follower of NAZI values.Hitler would be very proud of the UK government.
Very scary for the rest of us in the Commonwealth
Whether you agree or disagree with Tommy Robinson, he has the right of free speech or at least he used to. We need to clone Churchill to fight for English values and save England once again.

'Americans are lucky that they have free speech.'

I have to wonder how did they come to have this free speech and who can give it ... or take it away. The original "Americans" started off as subjects of British rule. Something must have changed that. ... Oh, I remember now ... they REBELLED against the "rulers" in England and fought a bloody (literally) war for their freedoms which included freedom of speech.

Now we see the Globalist "hidden rulers" Trying to take away the right to speak the truth if "they" don't approve it.

The amendments to the American Constitution do not give Americans the right to free speech and to bear arms (guns). The U.S. Constitution just states that these rights exist. ALL people have always had the right to defend themselves and to speak the truth. No government can "rightfully" give or take away a right that they cannot bestow or grant. GOD gives the right. Government is not able to take away a REAL Right. Think about that for a while.

I believe that when a government violates its authority and denies the real rights of any person to speak the truth then that government has set itself against THE TRUTH. And people therefore have the obligation to correct such a government by whatever means are required to put things in their proper order.

There is no free speech in the EU (and it's getting much the same in Canada). Leftist/globalist EU supporters have taken over the major political parties and governments, and are using laws against hate speech, and any other pretext they can find, to censor and criminalize opposition. or dissent to to their policies. Particularly, no one is allowed to speak against the hordes of Muslim barbarians they are importing to intentionally destroy European cultures and national loyalties.

People seem to want to blame the police, judges, etc., and while some of them surely support the policy, they don't make it -- it comes from the top of the national governments. None of this would be happening if the prime ministers and presidents didn't want it to. The national governments have the power to change whatever laws, procedures and people they would need to, to put an end to this -- if they aren't doing anything to change it, it's because they don't want to change it -- this is what they want.

People need to understand what's happening to their countries, and who's responsible. It isn't going to be changed by voting for the major political parties -- they created the situation that exists now. Germany's CDU is no longer the party of Kohl, Erhard, or Adenauer -- Britain's Conservatives are not the party of Thatcher, Macmillan, or Churchill. The party leaderships have been taken over by socialist EU supporters who are working toward a unified, socialist Europe, ruled from Brussels. If this is to be reversed by voting, it will take a political revolution to either put new parties in power, or take back control of the existing ones.

Outrageous and very very wrong that there should be a news blackout on the Tommy Robinson case! We are supposedly living in a free press and free speech democracy! A police state is not acceptable and not what we voted for. If the Tories want their politicians to keep their seats I suggest that they lift all reporting restrictions and release Tommy Robinson immediately! The Press should publish and be damned!

The Magna Carta from over 800 years ago doesn't quite cut the mustard today. Britain needs a First Amendment and a written constitution to stymie outrages such as Tommy Robinson's arrest and that of an old lady who was arrested for complaining to a policeman that Muslims were praying in a park. It needs an amendment that specifically describes a universal freedom of speech, and not the right to advocate violence and Sharia, as Muslims express every time they demonstrate, such as "Behead those who insult Islam."

Judging by the large and angry crowd protesting outside Parliament I'd say the court ordered news blackout didn't work as planned. In view of the Brexit foot dragging and now this it's high time Brits took back their country.

It is now perfectly evident that Orwells "Nineteen Eighty Four" is clearly upon us. The British "State" is becoming more suppressive, and more draconian every day. Their weapons of suppression are a corrupt judiciary, corrupt politicians, a corrupt law enforcement, and of course, all doing the bidding of a corrupt EU. So what is behind this suppression of indigenous Anglo-Saxon/Celts? What is the agenda? Well, it's mostly to appease the religion of permanent offense. But, I hear you say.."When did we actually last see these kind of heavy-handed tactics being used to suppress the voice of the populace?" Yes, Germany in 1939....and yes the Soviet Union under Stalin. As Ronald Reagan once quoted: "If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of Liberalism"..My my..It got to the UK first.

THESE ARE OUR ALLIES? I'm glad I am no longer of military service age because i would refuse a direct order to help England when they finally wake up and find they are losing their country to these Islamists and they need our help to defeat them. Oh yes, I forget. Only the criminals in their country are armed because only the law abiding citizens turned in their weapons.

You are completely wrong about the legalities of the Robinson case. In 2017 Robinson violated the court procedures to ensure a fair trial for the accused. He apologised for that and was given a sentence of three months imprisonment, suspended for eighteen months.

He violated court procedures in exactly the same way last Friday and has paid the penalty. The term of the non-reporting order for his case only lasts for the duration of the trial which he almost sabotaged (a few days now, it seems).

Letting him continue with his behaviour might have led to the need for a retrial. The cost would have probably been millions of pounds and a further delay in obtaining justice for the victims.

He's an idiot, not a free-speech martyr, as explained in some depth here:

http://figures-of-speech.com/2018/05/tommy.htm

What can I say? The old adage, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" is gone. Islam has been elevated above a mere religion to divinity. And peer pressure - the fear of appearing to be the one who recognizes that the King is naked - keeps everybody on their knees.

England and most of Europe is no longer there, and we in America are following that same path to suicide. And for what? So that we don't appear to be Islamophobic? There is a Latin phrase - Qui Bono - that asks "To Whoes Benefit?" Does America benefit from being silent about Muslim murderers? The straight answer is, "NO!" Then why are we being so careful not to offend these people who openly tell us that we are the Big Satan and they want us all dead or enslaved to them and their false god, Allah?

A question for you agnostics and atheists: Why would you willingly help God fulfill His prophesy that has the Muslims taking over the world and bringing upon the world a seven year period identified in the Bible as the Great tribulation? Why would you help accomplish a thing that proves the existence and sovereignty of the true Creator God of the Jewish and Christian scriptures?

Wake up America. Europe has effectively taken that Sharia Sharpie marker and drawn that dashed line around their throats with the words CUT HERE.

In past British history many kings were tyrants. In present day Britain, Theresa May and her government are the tyrants.

free tommy petition, sign at https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-free-tommy-robinson

UK lawmakers are jailing UK citizens for reporting the truth about Islam......why?

Prime Minister William Gladstone who raised the Quran above his head and exclaimed "as long as there is this book, there will be no peace in the world" .....is sad for England's descent into HELL.

Robinson's arrest & incarceration seems to have enraged many which is a very good sign that FINALLY something has set off a flame of resistance in the UK to the continual degradation of the British Working Class.
As if the continual grooming, rape & destruction of their children was not enough.
However, the incarceration of Robinson without anything like the legal team & protection as given the Child rapists may be enough to wake up many in the UK FINALLY!
I certainly hope so !!!

The Leftist controlled media in the UK is EAGER NOT to report this. The BBC, Guardian, etc view Robinson as their enemy so they are happy he is in prison and want the backlash hushed up. 1984.

Fortunately, citizens and legal residents of the U.S. are protected by the Bill of Rights from the type of kangaroo court proceeding like that which was inflicted by a vengeful legal system upon Tommy Robinson in the U.K.. However, we must not sit back and become complacent. Our Constitution is under unprecedented assault by social justice warriors on the left and Sharia law advocates like prominent Muslim activist Linda Sarsour. Unless we are willing to stand firm against these enemies of freedom and preserve our Constitution with the rights it guarantees, we in the U.S. could one day find ourselves In the same unenviable position as Tommy Robinson.

Thank you, Mr. Bawer. What someone needs to do in Parliament is introduce a bill for a FIRST AMENDMENT for Britain, one that is as strong and biting as our own, even though the Left here is trying to get it nullified. Also, Britain has an "unwritten" constitution. Harking back to the Magna Carta just doesn't cut it. One needs to be written as our own is. A First Amendment bill and a constitution bill should not be allowed to die in committee but be vigorously discussed and passed.

The UK and much of Europe has caved to Political correctness which plays into the hands of Muslims. I'm saying it's Islam that continues to pressure these politicians to crack down on anyone who wants to point out the evils that have taken over the UK and much of Western Europe. Thankfully most of the Eastern European countries refuse to be taken in by the socialist politicians in the West. Ask yourself where all the terrorism has taken place and its clear the best way to protect your citizens from terrorism is to refuse to take in Muslim refugees who refuse to accept your way of life. All they want is the free welfare handouts that the hard working people are paying. We here in America will not remain silent. I would hope that President Trump would find time to speak out in defense of Tommy. I know that won't happen but the president did mention Sweden and its many problems due to the mass number of Muslims in that country. What we see today in Western Europe is a collapse of a system that was in place to protect the rights of their citizens. Now the only ones being protected are the Muslim savages that were behind the rapes of young girls for many years. I say shame on the UK and Socialist Europe.

What happened to the writ of Habeas Corpus? Jury trial? the Magna Carta? Right to counsel? Right of Appeal?

The only free speech in the United States allowed is that of the anti western anti semites. Even our President is demonized for speaking to the insanity of uncontrolled immigration and its bitter ugly consequences. When we read of the outrage of the arrest of Tommy Robinson, ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

God Bless and Protect Tommy !

It is frightening how without yet imposing sharia law the islamic community has already made serious inroads in "western" law. Their first target has been our free speech and they have been very successful in this. Any question or criticism of islam is attacked as hate speech, yet as we have seen time and again there is no limit as to the hate speech of islamic speakers. This case is serious because it shows that even the very basics of British Law and Common Law have been offered up as sacrifices to islam.If we destroy our legal system then there is no civilization.

This is how British Patriots are treated in our once great country. Fearful politicians, unnerved by those who speak against Islam just in case they decide to riot in the name of Allah. The fact that Muslim grooming gangs are extremely widespread across the country, the police and allied authorities are terrified of being called names if they tackle a very serious problem! Can you honestly believe that? Because that is exactly what is going on in Britain today, people absolutely terrified of being called names. The media do everything in their power to prevent the public realising what is going on, they lie and deceive and generally back Muslims in all they do. They have all decided that a few thousand girls, some as young as 11 is a small price to pay for keeping the public from taking revenge on the animals that have carried out terrible crimes against children. All complicit, BBC, SKY, ITV, CH4, CH5, all more than happy to ensure the safety of Muslim grooming gangs, but not bothered about the lives of their victims. The whole country is bent and corrupt, and the media are a disgrace. They don't report honestly and accurately, they now report according to the governing rules demanded of Sharia! Cringing cowards, every last one of them and they'll be institutes of hate for many years to come. Despicable people!

Thanks, Bruce. If journalists like you can keep this travesty in the news, Tommy will get his freedom and this unacceptable behavior of the British justice system will be exposed right along with the muslim immigration problem.

Melanie Phillips made a strong point in an interview, that FREE SPEECH is being targeted. It is perfectly fine to offend people, with certain rare exceptions particularly in religious matters, but it appears to be something that Islam will not tolerate, which is because it is not allowed if you are a Muslim, due to the position was taken by Islam, which encourages all kinds of horrific acts, unacceptable in the society which affords them security within its borders.

The trouble with Britain is that even its prisons are not safe, as some of these barbaric attitudes as outlined even prevail in HM prisons.

But the real damage is that the court ruled against any publication of the truth, in fact GAGGING any possible evidence that might have come out in public and so jeopardising the so-called justice system. It is like the sordid affair in the US where the private secretary to Bill Clinton was found in dead a park and the business made to look like suicide, with the surrounding populace told that if they said anything else contrary o the story of suicide they would lose their jobs (Chris. Ambrose Pritchard: "The secret life of Bill Clinton"). It is not very British at all really.

I am very interested to hear that Facebook acted in this way. When I read a highly inflammatory comment about how Israel allegedly treats Palestinians, I replied " And what about the Kurds, ( many of whom are Muslims by the way ? )" Facebook informed me that it could not be viewed because it classified as hate speech. "Did I understand this? " I had to agree, otherwise I could not get back onto Facebook. Now, can any sane reader tell me where hate speech is to be found in the words "And what about the Kurds?" It seems clear that Facebook is politically biased and has an agenda.

It is high time for an MP of moral courage (I was going to name suggestions but after thought realised they would never be called upon to speak) used the immunity from prosecution afforded by the House of Commons to highlight htis appalling lack of justice. May I suggest Wednesday Question Time broadcast live on BBC as a suitable vehicle?

GO TOMMY GO.....
Do you remember this quotation.......
First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.
This quotation is credited to Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller, a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor.
-"for evil to triumph, it only takes good people to do nothing."
English philosopher Edmund Burke

In prison, is Robinson, like a certain famous French prisoner, forced to wear an iron mask and kept in permanent isolation so he can't break the "gag" order by telling other prisoners who he is and what he's there for?

Here in Australia we have much the same situation in relation to Cardinal George Pell. Most of his committal hearing was in secret; and when the magistrate committed him to trial on the grounds that a jury might find two of his accusers credible, even though he has been charged under the laws of the State of Victoria, a blanket ban has been imposed throughout Australia on reporting that he has been charged; what he is charged with; on the basis of what evidence he has been charged; and when and where he will be tried. When the trials occurs (there will be two), there will be a blanket ban on reporting anywhere in Australia that they are in progress, let alone what is occurring.

The time has come when, however difficult it will be, we must organise ourselves and stand up against the UK government. If we do not they will gain comfort from having got away with this heinous act and we will see more and more similar acts of suppression.

A good start might be a blockade of Hull prison but it needs tens of thousands to overwhelm the PC police and other enemies of democracy.

Winston Churchill must be turning in his grave !

"On Friday, British free-speech activist and Islam critic Tommy Robinson was acting as a responsible citizen journalist -- reporting live on camera from outside a Leeds courtroom where several Muslims were being tried for child rape..."

Actually, as I understand it, they had already been convicted, and this was the sentencing phase! And it was a trial by judge only, no jury! So there was no way he could influence anything about it...

It's time to scrutinize the effects of Islam on western society. Islam is a creeping conquering ideology. It used to be thought that Islamists were the problem but in reality it's Islam.

Islam is inconsistent with western values. So close the mosques and shut down religious schools that teach Islam to children. Remove halal; and outlaw Sharia courts.

Muslims that want to leave Islam have enormousness problems. We should reach out and support Muslims who reject Islam and would like to enjoy the benefits of freedom in a free society.

Freedom of speech has been corrupted by Islam. Freedom of religion has been corrupted by Islam The British political system has been corrupted by Islam. The governance of London has been corrupted by Islam. Islam is a corruption in it'self.

Winston Churchill said that while Muslims were good fellows Islam like hydrophobia in a dog. So support any that wish to leave Islamic corruption.

What should take precedence over every thing is equal law for all citizens.

I am ashamed and deeply disgusted by the way "British Justice" has treated Tommy Robinson. It should be regarded as "Sharia Compliant AKA British Justice"! The situation for all British people who care passionately about their country is changing for the worse. Far too many "Advisors" are pushing a disturbing agenda that ensures that rights of Muslim rapists come before the rights of their victims and the public as a whole. If this "crime" committed by Tommy Robinson had concerned him reporting on a white Christian grooming gang preying on Black, Muslim or Sikh girls the news lines would have been red hot, at melting point. The headlines would have been big and bold and condemnation would be flowing from the mouths of politicians at an astonishing rate of knots! The news would be splashed all over the world and TV interviews would be across our TV screens for days if not weeks! This is where the Sharia Compliant part of the British media takes control of what the public should know. The news media outlets are now controlled by those fearing attacks by Muslim terrorists if they dare to report truthfully. They can no longer be trusted, they manipulate and control what people see and hear, they have become the real enemies of the people along with many equally terrified politicians. Cowardice on a tremendous scale has now gripped the British establishment, one that is cringingly cowardly when dealing with Islam in the country. All parts of the establishment have been infiltrated, which makes sure that the fear is ongoing, all the way up to the Prime Minister who really should know better than to keep spouting the same old rubbish about Islam being a religion of peace.
Hugely destructive elements are undermining our culture, our way of life, and our beliefs. We are no longer governed by a parliament, politicians, or the EU come to that, we are all governed by fear! A fear that treacherous people, like the ones that gave the order to imprison Tommy Robinson, brought to our doors!

Today hundreds of really peaceful people protested in favor of Tommy Robinson outside the British Consulate in Melbourne.
Only 15 police officers were at the demonstration, wearing standard light gear. It was completely different from the "peaceful" Muslim protests with blood on the street. The British Consular staff had no courtesy to meet with the protesters.
We demanded the immediate release of Tommy Robinson. He is not a criminal who deserves harsh judgement by a kangaroo court. The rapists are the criminals who deserve long sentence.
I'm sure that Sir Winston Spencer Churchill would be surprised if he would see that what is going on in Britain, which used to be Great Britain.

Death sentence to be carried out by Muslim inmates for reporting outside a court house. Britain is gone to the dogs. Correction! Gone to Shariah.

You had an opportunity to make Enoch Powell Prime Minister. You declined. You are paying the price for your insanity.

The article says "In the space of the next few hours, a judge tried, convicted, and sentenced him to 13 months in jail..."

That's not how the legal system works in Britain. A judge can not convict somebody of a criminal offence. That must be done by a jury after hearing both the prosecution case and the case for the defence. (The legal system in the USA is based on the British system.)

On the whole the safeguards for defendants are better than those in the USA. The legal teams on both sides in criminal cases are normally of a roughly similar standard. There are fewer cases in the UK where an innocent defendant is wrongly convicted due to incompetent defence attorneys and also fewer cases where a wealthy defendant gets off as a result of his expensive defence team.