'Tommy Robinson's Far-Right Rally Was The Worryingly Predictable Next Step For Broken Britain'

People demonstrate during the Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally, in London, Saturday Sept. 13, 2025. At the weekend, over 100,000 people filled the streets of London for the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ demonstration – a well-resourced, well-funded and strategically organised march by the likes of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson).Many people were shocked by the numbers it attracted – but for anyone paying attention to the scale of discontent in the country and the success of figures like Yaxley-Lennon, it feels a worryingly predictable next step in the campaign to twist people’s fear and anger into something darker and more dangerous.For nearly two decades, living standards in the UK have been declining. Life has got much harder for most people. Bills have spiked, rents have spiralled out of control, more people have been pushed into poverty.Wherever we live, we can all see that there is something deeply broken at the heart of this country: our high streets are derelict, our town centres are hollowed out, and our public services are crumbling thanks to lack of investment. Too many people are homeless or sleeping on the streets.But instead of taking action, governments have simply stood by while the super rich and corporations hoover up wealth, leaving ordinary people with nothing. They’ve sat on their hands while landlords put up the rent on people who can’t afford to pay a penny more. They’ve looked the other way while water companies hike prices again and again while pouring sewage into our rivers and seas. They’ve shrugged their shoulders while huge corporations pay poverty wages and then take their massive profits offshore to avoid paying tax.People are rightly feeling let down. For nearly two decades living standards in the UK have been declining This failure of political leadership from successive governments has left a massive vacuum at the heart of this country. It’s being filled by a toxic coalition of fascist agitators, and super-rich big-business-backed politicians like Reform’s Nigel Farage. They would rather deflect attention from the real causes of people’s struggles (in which they are complicit), and instead focus people’s rage at an easy target: people coming from abroad, whether that’s to flee violence, or to work in our NHS or keep our social care system functioning.But while rage and frustration are fuelling this movement, this march wasn’t a grassroots outpouring of spontaneous anger. It was strategically organised by figures like Yaxley-Lennon, with a particular agenda to channel that anger into racism, prejudice and intimidation.What is particularly troubling, though, is how the message – that immigrants are to blame for all our problems – is beginning to cut through beyond the fringes, and being echoed more widely. It is beginning to resonate among people who would never call themselves racist, who don’t identify with far-right politics, but who find themselves repeating the same lines, nodding along, and internalising the same suspicions because they are desperately looking for a solution to the decline and misery they see all around them.This is possible because as a country we have failed to properly address the prejudice that bubbles under the surface of so many conversations about migration, about crime, about foreign policy – and which erupts into open hatred at moments of extreme tension. Some public figures are explicit in endorsing racist views – some do it subtly, and some simply fail to condemn it.That’s what makes this moment so dangerous. It’s not just about organised racists on a platform – it’s about how their message is seeping into the mainstream, emboldening prejudice in spaces where it once might have been challenged. Last weekend’s march showed us that we don’t have time to waste It’s never been more important to be loud, clear and honest about the problems we’re facing and how we fix them. We have to be unafraid to say that people like Nigel Farage and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who blame migrants and minorities for the struggles people are facing, are simply providing cover for the real source of our problems: the multi-millionaires and billionaires who are profiting from exploiting workers, farmers, renters, everybody who is struggling to get by while the rich get richer.Until we stop the super-rich sucking money out of our communities and moving it into tax havens, the decline that we see all around us will continue – and the far-right will keep getting stronger, feeding off the resentment and powerlessness that is so deeply felt across the country and taking us down a dark path from which it will be difficult to return.There is an alternative – and we can all play our part in fighting for it.Taking back our wealth from multi-millionaires and billionaires to rebuild our communities with strong public services, by unionising to fight for our rights at work, by forcing the government to take action to bring down bills, by getting to know our neighbours so that we can work with them rather than fearing them.Last weekend’s march showed us that we don’t have time to waste – the future of our country is at stake and we have work to do to put us on the path to a better future.Related...'Dangerous And Inflammatory': Keir Starmer Condemns Elon Musk's Claim 'Violence Is Coming' To UKEd Davey Mocks Elon Musk After He Calls Him 'A Craven Coward'Starmer Urged To Block Tesla From Government Contracts Over Elon Musk's Far-Right Rally Rant

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