Here’s to good sales in Helsinki and throughout the rest of Finland.
A juicy teaser:
Tommy Robinson, Former EDL Leader, Claims Quilliam Paid Him To Quit Far-Right Group
Tommy Robinson, Quilliam director Maajid Nawaz and Robinson’s cousin and former EDL member Kevin Carroll at the press conference
Tommy Robinson claims he was paid thousands of pounds by the Quilliam Foundation to leave the English Defence League in a deal the anti-extremism think-tank coordinated so they could take “credit” for his resignation.
Quilliam has never previously acknowledged they paid Robinson to leave the group he formed in August 2009, or to work with them, and the 32-year-old has previously remained silent on the deal that was struck with the organisation he now says has “no credibility” and is “more despised by Muslims than I was”.
UPDATE: Brian of London has a review of the book at Israellycool.
Tommy Robinson Says He’s An Enemy Of The State: Book Review
Enemy of the State by Tommy Robinson is available for pre-order on Amazon UK. Kindle version will be coming soon. It is published by Press News Ltd. in the UK.
Without winning a TV talent contest or scoring a winning goal in the World Cup, it would be hard to be as famous as Tommy Robinson in the UK. And yet he started out wearing a balaclava and leading a rag tag bag of football hooligan friends protesting against a group of Muslims shouting insults and obscenities at British soldiers. He became the figure head of the English Defence League: the EDL.
Tommy Robinson has now written a book telling his astonishing story. It is more entertaining, funny, bitterly depressing and exciting than most of the fiction I’ve read lately. It had me laughing out loud then thumping soft furnishing in frustration over the injustice of it all. It’s not about the EDL but his involvement with the EDL is clearly the main driver for most of what’s happened to him:
Don’t worry, you’re not going to need a box of Kleenex at your side as you read this. It really isn’t Tommy-does-tearjerking. It’s not a sob story. The trouble I’ve found myself in has been at times clearly self-inflicted. But only at times. You might just learn something about the workings of a British police state that I doubt you believe exists.
My over-arching crime, at least in the eyes of the British establishment, has been to be a patriot. I love my country. I think that St George’s Day, April 23rd, should be a public holiday. I resent the fact that people who hate the country they call ‘home’ are pampered and protected by a state that places their so-called rights above those of young men who risk and sacrifice their lives for British democracy.
It’s not a short book (the electronic version I had was 330 pages) but I devoured it. The style perfectly captures Tommy’s voice and background but it flows well. Some of the phraseology will upset English grammar teachers: it’s always “me and my football pals” but that’s authentic Tommy speak.
