Tommy Robinson has for some time been lambasted by the press in the UK and here in Australia, and both Pauline Hanson and Karl Stefanovic were roundly criticised for meeting with him during their (separate) recent UK visits. Andrew Bolt of Sky News went so far as to call Tommy Robinson “a thug, a bully and a public menace”.
So, who is this fellow, who is Tommy Robinson? What has he done or is doing that has upset so many people – on both the left and right side of politics? What has he done that has given rise to all the vitriol directed at him?
In answering those questions I’m just going to reveal what he is best known for. That’s because that’s what the criticisms levelled at him relate to. Some may have delved into his past to highlight his shortcomings but only did so to justify their criticisms against him for what he is best known for.
So, what is he best known for? He is known for tenaciously alerting the public to a systemic failure by all three arms of the UK government and associated entities to investigate the rape of many thousands, some maintain well over 250,000, girls and young women around the UK by gangs of men over a decade or so.
This allegation appears to have been confirmed by Rupert Lowe, a British Member of Parliament and leader of the Restore Party, who says he crowdfunded a comprehensive report showing there to have been far more than 250,000 girls and young women raped by gangs across the UK.
If that allegation of gang rape is even remotely true, one would have thought that every respectable person, frankly every person who we should allow to live in civilised society with us, would commend him for it. He should be our hero, we should be praising him, bestowing him with medals and freedom of the city awards, and we should be erecting statues in his honour.
So, why aren’t we? Could it be that his report shows that the perpetrators, the rapists, were primarily Pakistani men of the Muslim faith and the victims were mainly white girls? Could it also be that his report shows the UK authorities would not investigate the alleged rapes and mainstream media would not report on them, because of “cultural sensitivities” and because they were concerned the Muslim community may ‘kick-off’, may protest and riot? It would appear so, what other plausible reason could there have been? None come to mind.
I don’t know because I haven’t conducted a survey, but I expect an overwhelming majority of Muslims in the UK and here in Australia would regard the rape of girls and young women to be abhorrent, regardless of whether the victims were white and regardless of whether the rapists were of the Muslim faith.
I also expect that an overwhelming majority of Muslims in the UK and here in Australia would be highly offended by the press and UK government believing that they would side with the rapists, side with evil, merely because those barbarians claim to follow the same faith. The implication for them would be clear, crystal clear, that the press and UK government regard the Muslim community to be uncivilised. Is there a greater insult? Not that I can think of.
This matter shows a systemic problem where people in positions of power and influence try not to offend a section of the community but do the exact opposite – they are highly offensive. And that’s not the least of it. Their failure is and will continue to cause far greater problems for the Muslim community and for government. The UK populus are fast losing faith in their government, the courts and the media, and hundreds of thousands of British people are now supporting a call for mass deportation of immigrants and the closure of mosques. And that’s largely because the UK’s woke government and press did not want to offend a community or step on cultural sensitivities.
The lesson we in Australia should learn from it is – we need to be very careful to consider the unintended, the second and third order, consequences of being woke.
Written by: Mark M.J. Morris (July 2026)