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Tommy Robinson, Hitler and wooden crosses

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noblegiraffe · 12/09/2025 16:33

Tommy Robinson is having his 'Festival of Free Speech' in London tomorrow.

I'm also seeing attempts on social media to rehabilitate his image as a 'concerned citizen' and pleas from him to keep things civil, not wear masks and not drink alcohol. Jolly good.

So let's be clear that he has also posted an image promoting his 'free speech festival' standing with Ant Middleton next to a bus, number 88. The far right will be well aware of the use of the number 88 to denote 'Heil Hitler' where H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. This is not an accident.

He has also posted on social media that he is planning to bring a large number of wooden crosses to his 'free speech festival'. This would appear to be an odd choice for a free speech festival but makes more sense if you want to bang on about how England is a Christian Country and Muslims are Not Welcome.

Either way, he is trying to appeal to a wider crowd while at the same time signalling to his racist contingent that it's business as usual.

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BalladOfBarryAndFreda · 13/09/2025 15:02

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 14:45

How is tommy robinson a nazi? Or is everyone now a nazi if your against open borders and demographic replacement?

I dont agree with everything tommy says but its 100 percent true to say that parts of the UK and europe has been completely changed due to open borders. There are over 50 islamic countries that are under sharia law but why do they pick the west?

Even my country (ireland) I have noticed a change in demographics over the past few years and I think the true racists are the ones who want open borders and to ethnically replace europeans in thier homelands.

Im all for immigration when done correctly, It has his benefits but its predicted that by 2050 native brits and irish will become minoraties in thier own nation.

Also why are they boat loads of men? Where are the women and children?

Quoting the great replacement theory like it's fact and not debunked, far right conspiracy proganda.

The 2050 demographies projection applies to the USA population. It doesn't hold water there either because in that theory, white will still be the majority ethnicity, as the remaining population is made up of various other non-white ethnicities.

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:08

@BalladOfBarryAndFreda well I was in paris a few months ago but it defiantly didnt feel like I was in paris, same with parts of england and even here in ireland I know of a local school where in some classrooms white irish are a minoraty.

But if we are having less kids + Keep importing more people and families from other parts of the world (who have more kids on average) then it aint rocket science to say that eventually ethnic europeans will be replaced

Uricon2 · 13/09/2025 15:13

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 14:52

@noblegiraffe its a bloody bus number lol

Unless Tommy R (ex BNP and founder of the EDL) and Ant M are even harder of thinking than they appear, they will know exactly what 88 means. It's a well known neo fascist dog whistle symbolising Heil Hitler and if they were as pure of intent as they make out (they're not) they would have found another bus. There's enough of them in London.

DuncinToffee · 13/09/2025 15:14

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:08

@BalladOfBarryAndFreda well I was in paris a few months ago but it defiantly didnt feel like I was in paris, same with parts of england and even here in ireland I know of a local school where in some classrooms white irish are a minoraty.

But if we are having less kids + Keep importing more people and families from other parts of the world (who have more kids on average) then it aint rocket science to say that eventually ethnic europeans will be replaced

What is your solution, more ethnic European babies?

Reminds me of something 🤔

noblegiraffe · 13/09/2025 15:17

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 14:52

@noblegiraffe its a bloody bus number lol

To normal people who have never hung around neo-Nazis or white supremacists it's just a bus number.

Do you think that Tommy Robinson doesn't know the significance when he chose that backdrop to his 'unite the kingdom' photo?

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LlttledrummergirI · 13/09/2025 15:19

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 14:45

How is tommy robinson a nazi? Or is everyone now a nazi if your against open borders and demographic replacement?

I dont agree with everything tommy says but its 100 percent true to say that parts of the UK and europe has been completely changed due to open borders. There are over 50 islamic countries that are under sharia law but why do they pick the west?

Even my country (ireland) I have noticed a change in demographics over the past few years and I think the true racists are the ones who want open borders and to ethnically replace europeans in thier homelands.

Im all for immigration when done correctly, It has his benefits but its predicted that by 2050 native brits and irish will become minoraties in thier own nation.

Also why are they boat loads of men? Where are the women and children?

Im against open borders, disagree that demographic replacement is a thing and think that Tommy 19 names is an absolute walker. Where does that place me?

Understanding facts around immigration doesn't make me left wing. Believing that you are superior to another human being because of race does make you racist though.

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:19

@Uricon2 and I guess everyone who gets on that bus is a nazi as well lol. Ok so all the people against tommy must be pro marxists, hate people having families, want open borders, support public assasinations of people who have a different view than them and think men should use womens toilets while having they/them pronouns in thier twitter or facebook bios, Also must be anti science and think men can get pregnant

But thats obviously not true as well. I think both sides need to stop labelling each other as extremists if they disagree with one another.

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:20

@DuncinToffee so its racist for europeans to have babies then?

pointythings · 13/09/2025 15:22

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:19

@Uricon2 and I guess everyone who gets on that bus is a nazi as well lol. Ok so all the people against tommy must be pro marxists, hate people having families, want open borders, support public assasinations of people who have a different view than them and think men should use womens toilets while having they/them pronouns in thier twitter or facebook bios, Also must be anti science and think men can get pregnant

But thats obviously not true as well. I think both sides need to stop labelling each other as extremists if they disagree with one another.

You don't have to be a marxist to oppose what SYL stands for. Just not a racist.

DuncinToffee · 13/09/2025 15:25

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:20

@DuncinToffee so its racist for europeans to have babies then?

You what now?

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:25

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Wackadaywideawake · 13/09/2025 15:26

It’s infuriating to see wooden crosses - symbols of a faith that preaches love, and compassion - wielded as props. These idiots are parading Christianity as a costume to give their march a righteous and moral veneer, when in reality, their actions are about division and anger. It’s insulting to the faith, to actual Christians, and to anyone with a shred of integrity.

Weaponising symbols they don’t live by (weddings, funerals and Christenings really don’t count) is ironic. If they actually went to church and lived as Christians they wouldn’t be on the bloody march in the first place.

And yet, the most maddening part isn’t just the insult—it’s the ridiculousness of it all! Trying to mimic Jihadi theatrics as if brandishing a cross will somehow make them look scarier is just embarrassing.

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:27

@DuncinToffee do you support demographic replacement of europeans in thier own homelands? Do you think palestinians should be replaced in thier homeland?

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:29

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Piggywaspushed · 13/09/2025 15:29

These tourist areas that you 'stepped outside'. Did anything awful happen to you? What exactly does Africa 'feel like'?

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:32

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CaptainMyCaptain · 13/09/2025 15:33

OverlyFragrant · 12/09/2025 16:37

I'm absolutely not a fan of the man, and come from family that suffered alot at the hands of fascists, but even I can see the 88 bus claim is a bit of a stretch.

Column 88 - Wikipedia https://share.google/XkneysZvq5OhwulYl

See also Combat 18

Column 88 - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_88

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:33

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BalladOfBarryAndFreda · 13/09/2025 15:34

@OnePeppyMauvePoster , you're right re fertility rates falling. Our fertility rate is currently well below replacement rate and is falling (England & Wales 1.41 vs rr of 2.1).

Why do you think the birthrate is so low? What do you think would improve it? If we got rid of all the 'non-ethnic europeans', do you think that would mean white people were more likely to have children? If so, why?

Piggywaspushed · 13/09/2025 15:35

Syria isn't in Africa.

Uricon2 · 13/09/2025 15:39

CaptainMyCaptain · 13/09/2025 15:33

Column 88 - Wikipedia https://share.google/XkneysZvq5OhwulYl

See also Combat 18

This. If Auntie Doris is pictured in front of an 88 bus on a day trip to London, it's just an 88 bus. Ex BNP member and founder of the EDL, not so much.

Tommy Ten Names supporters have been pictured Sieg Heiling. I think if they dressed up as stormtroopers and goosestepped down Oxford Street singing the Horst Wessel song, there would still be people saying "but that doesn't make them neo Nazis".

OnePeppyMauvePoster · 13/09/2025 15:42

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Piggywaspushed · 13/09/2025 15:44

WTAF.

Uricon2 · 13/09/2025 15:45

@OnePeppyMauvePoster , what proportion of the female population of Western Europe do you really think are on Onlyfans? I don't think it's quite the epidemic you imagine.

BalladOfBarryAndFreda · 13/09/2025 15:50

Uricon2 · 13/09/2025 15:45

@OnePeppyMauvePoster , what proportion of the female population of Western Europe do you really think are on Onlyfans? I don't think it's quite the epidemic you imagine.

Not only that, the earnings of the average creator on there are being wildly overestimated