THE FAR-RIGHT INTERNATIONAL
On a hot July day in 2018, as US President Donald Trump visited the UK, MEP Kent Ekeroth, from the far-right Sweden Democrats party, joined protesters on Whitehall in London for the Free Tommy Robinson demonstration. The former leader of the English Defence League (EDL), real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was serving time for disrupting the trial of a rape-gang in the course of his provocative ‘reporting’.
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s imprisonment for contempt of court had made him a cause célèbre across the globe. An estimated $2.5 million in donations flowed in from supporters who believed that he was the victim of a politically correct plot to silence his ‘free speech’.
‘The reason why the Tommy case has gotten so much attention,’ Ekeroth said, ‘is because this is a problem that is not isolated to England. It’s a worldwide struggle, it’s a fight between the leftwing liberals
