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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Marina Hyde

Where are the brave inciters of Britain’s race riots? From Tommy to Elon, they’re far, far away

Tommy Robinson addressing a protest in Trafalgar Square, London, 27 July 2024
Tommy Robinson addressing a protest in Trafalgar Square, London, 27 July 2024. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/PA

“My kids are crying. We come here so I could spend some quality time with them. Now they are scared people are coming here to get them.” Thus bleated Tommy Robinson from the five-star Ayia Napa all-inclusive hotel from which he is currently influencing sustained violent disorder on Britain’s streets.

And yet, multiple paparazzi photos from the resort show Daddy either floating like a lonesome turd in the pool, or splayed out on a four-poster sunlounger glued to his phone, with not even a pixelated Sproginson to be seen. Perhaps they were fomenting looting in the kids’ club? If not, Pops has certainly broken with the form book by not coopting them into his war games. Robinson’s previous stunts have included filming his disturbingly tearful children on the day he emerged from one of his prison sentences (it was the attempting-to-collapse-a-rape-trial one, I think, as opposed to the massive-mortgage-fraud one).

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