Daniel James

as part of fascist political parties in the UK sort of in the mid-2000s.

And then more recently, he has sort of been able to mobilise that following that's sort of been retained with the sort of the anti-migrant sentiment that sort of went with Brexit and then went with across the Western world with the election of Trump and so on.

That's been sort of parlayed into mobilising followers for riots in the UK recently.

He has been sort of a big supporter of the predecessor to what is now the Reform Party, UKIP.

People that have been involved in that party have sort of distanced themselves from him.

Sir Nigel Farage, obviously the leader of Reform, was the leader of UKIP.

He has said he would not be welcome in Reform.

And Reform is, for our Australian listeners, sort of the UK equivalent of One Nation, effectively.

This is a man who, where the Australian body politic, as we'll get into, has welcomed into its arms.

The UK conservative body politic has said, this is too much for us.

And I think there's another interesting point there about the use of the pseudonym.

There's a class element to that.

This is fundamentally not a working-class man, and he wants to style himself as a working-class man because it's politically convenient.

So what does he do?

He takes away the double barrel of Yaxley Lennon, and he styles himself as Tommy Robinson.

So there's an element of that too.

There's a reason he didn't use a big, long-winded double-barrel pseudonym.

He used something that sounded, in his mind, more working-class.

Robertson also presents himself as someone who's been punished for telling the truth.

Jailed, censored, silenced by the establishment.