Tommy Robinson libel case defeat.

[rscott]

Robinson needs to find around £170,000 to pay compensation and legal fees to Jamal Hijazi after Hijazi's libel claim against him succeeded.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/u...

The defendant failed to prove any of the 7 claims he made about the schoolboy.

[CloudStuff]

I'm sure I speak for all on NP&R that this is a very welcome verdict.

[Randy Winkman]

CloudStuff said:

I'm sure I speak for all on NP&R that this is a very welcome verdict.

Yes. TR is a tt.

[rscott]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

BBC reporting there will be additional hearings to determine his assets (and what may have happened to them, eg the house he signed over to his wife recently)

[biggbn]

I'm sure someone will be along soon to defend old 'salt of the earth, wouldn't hurt a fly, loves his old mum' Tommy....

[UnfortunateUserName]

CloudStuff said:

I'm sure I speak for all on NP&R that this is a very welcome verdict.

+ 1.

[Rick1.8t]

I hate that he is known as 'Tommy' - Its Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, good old Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is as bad in that regard (However dubious I find his character I am not making any comparison there though before anyone accuses me of that)

Typical bullst tactics to present an image of being a 'man of the people'..... works though.

[anonymous-user]

Rick1.8t said:

Typical bullst tactics to present an image of being a 'man of the people'..... works though.

he is named after a notorious football hooligan.

[Rick1.8t]

The Spruce Goose said:

he is named after a notorious football hooligan.

Did not know that, but it further strengthens my point....

[longblackcoat]

Rick1.8t said:

The Spruce Goose said:

he is named after a notorious football hooligan.

Did not know that, but it further strengthens my point....

The original Tommy Robinson was one of the Luton Men In Gear crowd.

Bellends. Both him and the original TR.

[irc]

Rick1.8t said:

I hate that he is known as 'Tommy' - Its Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, good old Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is as bad in that regard (However dubious I find his character I am not making any comparison there though before anyone accuses me of that)

Typical bullst tactics to present an image of being a 'man of the people'..... works though.

Yes. Same as Anthony Charles Lynton Blair

[Rick1.8t]

irc said:

Yes. Same as Anthony Charles Lynton Blair

Precisely - they are real people, not actors, pretty successful tactic though if your real name gives off the wrong image to the 'base'.

But yet again, lets not confuse perhaps 'bad' people with utter dregs of humanity like little Tommy, eh?

Edited by Rick1.8t on Thursday 22 July 21:38

[tight fart]

Anthony Wedgwood Benn, another great orator.

[JeffreyD]

tight fart said:

Anthony Wedgwood Benn, another great orator.

Eh???

[Rick1.8t]

tight fart said:

Anthony Wedgwood Benn, another great orator.

Ill admit I dragged this off topic but that's a clutch at straws isnt it? - I mean Anthony is fairly commonly shortened to 'Tony, and Benn is his surname, hardly the same as a completely new name bearing no single connection to your own, is it? (I dont include Boris in that, its part of his name)

[Randy Winkman]

As a 56 year old I remember him being quite commonly known by his full name in the 1970s. Pretty much everyone knew his middle name was Wedgewood.

[ClaphamGT3]

[mac96]

Randy Winkman said:

As a 56 year old I remember him being quite commonly known by his full name in the 1970s. Pretty much everyone knew his middle name was Wedgewood.

They must have- wasn't he often referred to as Wedgie Benn?

[MrJuice]

Isn't this a nice result for him? He can say what he likes, stir up tension and then plead poverty? Judge is hardly going to send him to prison if he cannot pay costs and damages?

(Don't) rinse and repeat?

[bazza white]

Was he not declared bankrupt earlier in the year.

Good news though and may the bad news keep coming for Tommy.