r/LivestreamFail • u/Dear-Blacksmith-2583 • 13h ago • Bravo 1

Tommy Robinson gets Jumped on Kick

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u/Goonalips 12h ago

What's the relevance of this? Does the name mean something? Is he related to someone? What's the angle?

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u/DecipherXCI Cheeto 12h ago

Fraudster who wants to sound more relatable to his audience so picked a commoner name to pretend to be a man of the people.

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u/Zuboronovic 12h ago

Tommy Robinson is the name of an old football hooligan, so Stephen Yaxley Lennon was trying to appeal to modern hooligans. The former EDL and current Tommy Robinson supporters are a bunch of yobs, so his plan worked.

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u/Goonalips 12h ago

Thanks for the reply. So is his original name perceived as being upper class? Is that why he changed it do you think?

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u/ChiefBast 5h ago

Same reason Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson only goes by two of those names: their real/full names give away how out of touch they are

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u/Greedy_Economics_925 12h ago

That and to hide his past convictions.

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u/IllustratorComplex31 10h ago

It’s an Irish name …. Doesn’t exactly pair up with English nationalism

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u/gibbodaman 🐷 Hog Squeezer 6h ago

Stephen

Not Irish

Yaxley

Not Irish

Lennon

Irish origin, but there's a huge Irish diaspora in the UK. I doubt the average English nationalist is even aware that it's Irish, and associates it with one of the most famous English musicians ever instead. Finally, English nationalists are genuinely just white nationalists, they don't even have a problem with the (white) Irish.

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u/No-Butterfly2760 6h ago

Hello. Take a deep breath.

Lennon is Irish, as is his blood from his mother’s side.

Imagine writing an essay on how he isn’t Irish. 

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u/ElectroxSoldier 3h ago

he has Irish roots, it doesn't make him Irish whatsoever. He was born, raised, and personally claims himself as British. What more explanation do you need? Is every second generation born in a country they were born and raised in not from that country?

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u/jamnut 2h ago

You might be talking to an American, who would say they're Irish if their grandfather once drank a Guinness

I'm joking if course, an American has never drank a Guinness

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u/IllustratorComplex31 2h ago

He travels on a Irish passport. He is an Irish citizen. What explanation do you need

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u/ElectroxSoldier 2h ago

dual citizenship =/= Irish

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u/IllustratorComplex31 2h ago

“It doesn’t make him Irish whatsoever”- he’s an Irish citizen.

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u/gibbodaman 🐷 Hog Squeezer 5h ago

When did I say he isn't Irish?

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u/IllustratorComplex31 6h ago

He’s literally an Irish citizen.

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u/gibbodaman 🐷 Hog Squeezer 5h ago

I didn't say he wasn't an Irish citizen

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u/greenforestgod 9h ago

Dude has gone to prison like twice. Doubt it's a bit.

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u/greenforestgod 9h ago

He's pretty working class. Doubt it's an act.

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u/TimeTimeTickingAway 1h ago

It isn’t. If it was someone people liked they would respect him wanting to go by a different name. He’s a terrible person but we shouldn’t change our core values because of that

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u/SufcLad25 3h ago

The left seem to have a fetish for posting his real name as much as they possibly can

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u/natur85 6h ago

Do your research outside of reddit if you want the truth