In case anybody else is like me and has never heard of tommy robinson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson) :
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (né Yaxley; born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British far-right, anti-Islam activist. Described as “one of [the] UK’s most prominent far-right activists”,[1] he co-founded the English Defence League (EDL), serving as its leader from 2009 to 2013.
Before the EDL, Robinson was a member of the British National Party (BNP), a British fascist political party, from 2004 to 2005. For a short time in 2012, he was joint vice-chairman of the British Freedom Party (BFP). In 2015, after leaving the EDL, he became involved with the development of Pegida UK, a now-defunct British chapter of the German Pegida. From 2017 to 2018, he wrote and appeared in videos on the Canadian website Rebel News. In 2018, he also served as a political advisor to Gerard Batten, then the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP).
Robinson is also known for creating self-produced videos presented in a documentary format, on topics including the grooming gangs scandal. Some of these videos have been found in court to include defamatory false statements about their subjects.[2][3][4]
Robinson has criminal convictions[5] for assault,[6] threats,[7] harassment,[8] and fraud,[5] as well as contempt of court rulings relating to his videos, and served five prison terms between 2005 and 2025. In June 2022, Robinson said that he lost £100,000 in gambling before declaring bankruptcy in March 2021. He also said he owed an estimated £160,000 to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). In August 2024, The Times said that he owed in the region of £2 million to his creditors, and was the subject of a HMRC investigation over unpaid taxes.
I envy people who have never heard of that turd.
You might not be into politics, but politics surely is into you
You may not fuck with politics, but politics will fuck with you!
Is this the onion? I can’t tell
Is he trying to use this opportunity to radicalize Ed? i.e. by trying to be his friend when everyone else is against him?
i mean his only choice is to try to have a magat/conservative audience now.
Hitler and Jack the Ripper have also came out in support for Ed Sheeran.
I want to understand something: was it Ed Sheeran himself, his management or the places in USA where he was to perform who kicked out Macklemore?
kraft banned him , then got all the other stadium owners to blacklist macklemore. Ed shareen had to throw up under the bus to keep good graces with kraft, whom is also in the files. also ED has remaining completely silent on the matter, not uttering a word for or against macklemore. So this tells you shareen really wants continued gigs from kraft.
Well after hearing all this, that changed my mind. Thanks for the explainers all!
had to throw up under the bus
I’m imagining him vomiting under a tour bus now.
I think it was the venues they were set to play at that refused to let Macklemore perform
I cannot honestly blame Ed Sheeran for what happened in that case. It might have been a better look for Ed if he canceled those venues himself, but then he would have pissed off the fans. No winning for him either way in this situation.
Note that these venues had no problem with Kanye’s “Heil Hitler” song.
Ed Sheeran should have taken a stand for Macklemore and let the venues cancel his performance there. He can probably sue them for damages and find other venues to perform. Instead, he bent over for fascism.
Wait, Kanye had a HH song?
He could 100% have hit a “Free Palestine” of his own, and if the venues cancel, they’re the assholes. His mealy mouthed both sides nonsense is whats fucking him up now.
Ed Sheeran: “I’m not political.”
Tommy Robinson: “You are now, mate. Hahaha.”
Tommy robinson: so you say Nazis can sit at this bar…? How lovely
Neutrality always sides with the aggressor…and the aggressors know this.
You don’t get on the Titanic after it hits the iceberg
You don’t understand, it’s unsinkable.
This is honestly a career low for tommy as well.
I feel old. I was around long enough to see Ed go from being a busker to a world famous pop star, and then back to being a busker.
I think he left Twitter because everybody used to spam him with “Ginger Busker”
This is EXACTLY what He Wants! To BRIDGE all sides!
