Seven “far-right agitators” have been banned from entering the UK to take part in a Tommy Robinson-led march in London.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood blocked the influencers from coming to the country to attend the Unite the Kingdom rally, after they had originally been given permission to do so, on May 16 after deciding their presence would not be “conducive to the public good”.
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Sir Keir Starmer said the travel ban as an example of how Labour would fight to defend Britain as a country of “decency and respect”.
He said the Government was acting to stop hate and intimidation being spread on the capital’s streets.
Who are the activists banned from attending the rally?
Valentina Gomez
US-based political commentator Valentina Gomez is a supporter of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement.
She attended last September’s Unite the Kingdom rally, estimated to have seen 150,000 people on the streets of London, where she reportedly warned that “rapist Muslims” were “taking over” the UK.
Addressing police officers at the event, she said: “I need you to stop following orders because you know you are being told to look the other way while your country is being raped into submission.”
Ms Gomez was due to speak again on Saturday before the Home Secretary blocked her from obtained a UK electronic travel authorisation (ETA) last month.
Responding to her ban, she said: “I got banned from the UK for speaking the truth, & standing up for little girls that have been r*ped out of their innocence. When a country protects cr*minals it’s because they’re complicit with them. This is exactly what’s coming to America.”
Ada Lluch
Catalan influencer and commentator Ada Lluch, 26, has been a vocal critic of immigration and drawn criticism for defending Spain’s fascist Franco regime.
In October, she was thrown off Spanish TV for claiming that more than 90 per cent of those arrested for theft in Barcelona were foreigners.
Ms Lluch also attended last September’s rally and said in a speech that western democracies had been “completely invaded and terror has already been unleashed” and called for re-migration.
She said in a post following the decision: “The UK government is using its state power to ban people with ideas opposed to theirs from the country. They haven’t had freedom for so long, but at least it used to be an illusion.
“Not anymore. They are now openly a tyrannical state.”
Joey Mannarino
American influencer Mr Mannarino is a right-wing activist who was criticised by the Hope Not Hate group last year for attending “March for Remigration” events organised by Britain First in Birmingham and Manchester.
Speaking at one of the events in front of a picture of himself and President Trump, he reportedly told the crowd: “We need to deport the parasites who are raping their way through America, Europe and the United Kingdom.”
He was also criticised for saying that he would not “believe a victim of rape again” after Trump was held civilly liable for the sexual abuse of a journalist.
In a post on X following the news of his ban, Mr Mannarino said: “Do I sometimes say things that are a bit offensive? Yes, sure, I have done that and I won’t stop. People are allowed to be offensive and have opinions of their own. Does that mean I should be banned from a country?”
He added: “I don’t like seeing women raped by migrants who don’t belong in the West. I don’t like seeing the streets of the US & Europe filled with people who HATE the culture of the US & Europe. I don’t like reading about stories where migrants are cooking domestic pets & raping cats.”
He also claimed that Islam is not compatible with western countries and that his views should not bar him from entering the UK.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
Dutch political activist and commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek has been prohibited from entering the UK since January after her visa was revoked.
The decision sparked a free speech row between the UK government and the Trump administration.
A former member of the far-right Dutch Forum for Democracy party, she also attended September’s Unite the Kingdom march.
She said in a speech at the rally: “They are demanding the sacrifice of our children on the altar of mass migration. Let’s not beat about the bush – this is the rape, replacement and murder of our people. Remigration is possible, and it’s up to us to make it happen.”
Responding to her ban on Monday, Ms Vlaardingerbroek said on social media: “Starmer has just admitted he banned me and other commentators from traveling to the UK because we would ‘set back communities.’
“Yet mass third-world migration doesn’t bother him as it only sets back the one community he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about: the White native population.”
The identity of the other three activist banned from entering the UK for Saturday’s march has not yet been disclosed.
