Tommy Robinson with supporters at the Cenotaph on Saturday.

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Tommy Robinson’s Armistice Day rally has come and gone. Fortunately, it was not as bad as I and a lot of people feared — but it was bad enough.

To recap, after a successful 100,000-person pro-Palestine protest in London in October, the organizers scheduled another, even larger protest for November 11. November 11 is Armistice Day in Britain, the anniversary of the end of the Great War (“on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent”). The Great War was a demographic catastrophe for Britain, and Armistice Day is for honoring the memory of the British who fell in that struggle.

Then, on November 5, controlled opposition Zionist shill Tommy Robinson got reinstated on Twitter/X and immediately announced a counter-protest. There were rumors that the demonstrators intended to vandalize the Cenotaph, a war memorial dedicated to the more than one million British who died in the world wars. There is some uncertainty as to where exactly the rumor came from, and it didn’t make a lot of sense considering that the Cenotaph is not anywhere near where the demonstration was to take place. Nevertheless, Tommy accepted the rumor as fact and called on all British patriots to rally to the Cenotaph’s defense on Armistice Day and protect it from the anti-Semitic, terrorist-sympathizing Islamists marching for Palestine.

The timing of Tommy’s return was suspicious, and everyone with an IQ above room temperature said his counter-protest was a trap that would be used to shift media attention away from the protesting immigrants to the safe target of the “far Right.” The event was unanimously disavowed by the entire dissident Right — but Tommy charged on.

The following are some of the headlines from major news outlets after 300,000 pro-Palestine demonstrators and maybe 200 Tommy Robinson supporters converged on London on the same day.

Politico: “Far-right thugs, football hooligans blamed for violence at London March.”

Guardian: “Hundreds of thousands rally for Gaza in London as police arrest far-right protesters”.

CNN: “300,000 join pro-Palestinian rally in London as scores of counter-protesters arrested.”

New York Times: “Right-Wing Counter-protesters Clash with Police in London.”

Robinson’s supporters who showed up amounted to less than 1% of the number of pro-Palestine demonstrators — but all the headlines were about the former.

One of the reasons I don’t like the idea of real-world events is that the margin for error is microscopic. For it to be a win, you can’t have anything go wrong, as any nationalist event will always be defined in the media by its worst moment. One can give the greatest speech of all time, but if someone pulls a gun in the parking lot, that’s going to be the headline. Planning can mitigate some of the risks, but there are always wild-card variables that you can never be sure of until you are there. What will the police do? How many antifa will show up? Or a totally random bystander could chimp out and start trouble.

On November 11 Tommy Robinson’s mob opened the day by assaulting the police. Thus, he dug himself into a hole right at the outset. Then, when Team Robinson arrived at the Cenotaph, it was being cordoned off by police — so Tommy’s crowd pushed through the officers. From there it didn’t matter what happened for the rest of the day, as the media had their story. A three-second clip of Tommy supporters attacking the police was all they needed to run the narrative they had prepared.

TOMMY ROBINSON ZIONIST ALT-RIGHT FAIL TO CAUSE DISRUPTION ATTACK POLICE INSTEAD pic.twitter.com/DugMUfLwC7

— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) November 12, 2023

Hundreds of people turned out to central London led by far-right figure Tommy Robinson claiming they wanted to ‘protect the Cenotaph’ on Armistice Day – before violence broke out and those in attendance rained down missiles on Met Police officers. pic.twitter.com/5STt2b2tLK

— Martha (@MGonigle) November 11, 2023

The organiser , Suella Braverman gone into hiding and her far right dog handler Tommy Robinson escaped a Taxi

This is British politics today

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— hazrat hussain (@hazrath57017729) November 11, 2023

While the two minutes’ silence was marked respectfully and without incident on Whitehall, officers have faced aggression from counter protestors who are in the area in significant numbers.

The counter protestors are not one cohesive group. There are different groups moving away…

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) November 11, 2023

After Tommy and his supporters managed to get into the Cenotaph, they held a respectful two minutes of silence and then things settled down, but the damage was done. Tommy did an hour of meet-and-greet before marching his followers into Chinatown and then all of a sudden escaping in a taxi. This was odd, since he ostensibly came to London to protect the Cenotaph, and yet he left the scene before the protesters had even finished assembling. In other words, Tommy called together some Islamophobic yobs and soccer hooligans under than banner of British patriotism and then let them loose in the middle of a pro-Muslim march. The excuse from the Tommy camp for his departure was that he was afraid that his presence would attract trouble and that he left to protect his supporters.

But things didn’t end there, as there were further shenanigans when Tommy’s supporters when some masked ne’er-do-wells began throwing things at the police.

Tommy Robinson runs away from the mob he incited… in a Pride taxi.

You couldn’t make it up. pic.twitter.com/zLXdUlpL1Q

— Supertanskiii (@supertanskiii) November 11, 2023

The explanation from the Tommy camp was that these masked individuals were clearly bad actors as evidenced by the fact that they were wearing masks. But earlier in the day, Tommy himself had defended those of his supporters who were wearing masks by arguing that they feared getting fired and that some live in Muslim neighborhoods. This is fair enough, but afterwards they turned around and used the same thing in order to distance themselves from them.

https://t.co/c0dElSu7QG pic.twitter.com/YuMYdXJ375

— Tommy Robinson