Robinson fails in bid to confront Scottish MP
RAIKES’S modern-day far-right idol Tommy Robinson was in full bleat on an unwelcome visit to Scotland yesterday.
He moaned at being denied access to a Glasgow library where he’d intended to confront MP Stewart McDonald.
Police stood outside Pollokshaws Library, telling locals it was closed to the public, while Robinson live-streamed his whining.
A source at the library said they had been made to stay inside for more than an hour as a small crowd gathered outside.
They claimed Robinson’s supporters bombarded the library with phonecalls.
McDonald was eventually escorted from the library by police. The Glasgow South MP holds a surgery at the library on the third Friday of every month.
Last year, McDonald raised a point of order in the House of Commons condemning Robinson as a “violent, racist thug and fraudster” after he was spotted having lunch at Westminster.
He told the Commons: “It’s entirely correct that members of both houses engage in robust, political debate around the parliamentary estate.
“But we have learned that the violent, racist thug and fraudster known as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, or Tommy Robinson, was invited on to the estate and wined and dined in the House of Lords yesterday.
“Sometimes we have to engage in views that one might not agree with but surely, surely the fact that a man who is as guilty as he is – of stirring up racial hatred, organising violent, thuggish crimes, setting up the EDL and everything that comes with it – crosses a line.”