You seem to know a great deal about Yaxley-Lennon.
Got assigned to do some press photography at a couple of his rallies. Then did the usual cross checking of sources and facts. Never been an EDL member and would not want to be. I have been up close and personal with them and it is not a pretty sight
A lot of them like TR are very frustrated at the PC state the UK has become and there are a lot of "nice" people bending over backards to not upset the multicultural applecart and are automatically bigoted against anything that is not PC or might be right wing. In much the same was if you mention ARRSE on Mum's Net.
To many people the attitudes ot TR and ARRSe are one and the same. If you trawl ARRSE you will find far people saying much the same as RT and many a lot worse. Ask on mumsnet, Green peace or CND forums and they will assume all ARRSE are EDL members. (or worse) .
The has the effect of marinalising a lot of the white working class. They tend not to be the well educated and think they are being sold out to the Molsems [radical islam branch but this distinction gets lost inthe FUD] who seem to know how to play the game and are supported by the Police and social services and local government (the later being very PC and very anti *anything* that is further right than the limp-dems)
Trouble is get a a lot of white working class, stoked up and given alcohol they will behave like a 1970s football crowd. Which is what happens and gets superficially reported.
BTW I came across quite a few claiming to be ex-military (and RAF) at the EDL events I was at. I also note that, not that any military were going apparently, the MoD have several times issued instructions military personal can't attend in uniform. Which is odd given that allegedly none would even think of going in or out of uniform...
Can you show when he "raised the profile" of these gangs? I take your comment to indicate that his conduct brough them to the attention of the Authorities who otherwise would not have prosecuted them.
At most of his rallies and since the EDL was formed. Actually a little before that. Having a break from painting a shed at the moment so I wil dig out the referecnes later this evening
Second question - any reason why his focus is solely on Asian gangs, and no focus on the horrors perpetuated by some members of the Catholic Church?
In Luton the main problem was radical Islam way out of all proportion to the size of the Moslem population let alone the radical part. It was not just the grooming gangs but the Radicalisation and terrorism. The Sex gangs have puled more of the headlines.
So his aim was at the culture around radical Islam in Luton not sex gangs per se. The EDL took off because amy others out side Luton rallied to his call. Including a lot of neo Nazis.
However as TR has a lot of friends who are Jews and Molsems, as he says Luton is very multi cultural, he is not a racist. He did his best to root out the Neo-Nazis and resisted several attempts particularly of a German Neo-Nazi group to infiltrate the EDL. I note there are asians, blacks and LBGT at the EDL rallies I went to. I also note that on the live stream where he was arrested several asians approached him to give support.
It is worth watching the hour long presntation he gave to the Oxford Union which gives a very good isight to who he is and why he is where he is. He repeateday says "show where I have ben racist" and I have yet to see any factual evidence. A lot of emotive crap but no real evidence
BTW had he been listened to at the start there would have been a lot fewer Jhadis from the UK in Afghan and Syria. Also several terrorist attack inthe UK would not have happened. He was point put and naming people and groups who are now know terroists and terrorist groups.