{"id":1682,"date":"2025-06-03T09:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:46:29","slug":"tommy-robinson-stephen-yaxley-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2025\/06\/03\/tommy-robinson-stephen-yaxley-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley Lennon)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His nickname is &#8220;<strong>Marmite<\/strong>&#8220;, and for good reason.<br>Over the past years I have come to love and respect this man. So much so that in 2019 I got a disciplinary at work for a Facebook post about Tommy which upset some local woke clergy that I&#8217;d never met!  And frankly I think this is why.<br>Tommy represents so much that I, as a middleclass, grammar educated man of a certain age and belief dislike about the &#8220;working class&#8221;! They&#8217;re rude, crude, unrefined and above all because they use the F word like punctuation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But isn&#8217;t that just my bigotry?<br>What do I know of growing up on council estates in deprived areas? I don&#8217;t.<br>What do I know of feeling that my daughter is unsafe? I don&#8217;t.<br>What do I know of feeling that the whole system is biased against me? I don&#8217;t.<br>What do I know of feeling that as a white person I am now a minority in my own home town? I don&#8217;t (oh O K maybe I get that)<br>All this is precisely why he has become a HERO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Mothers Last Wish - Tommy Visits Lydia For A Final Hug\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/18HCXln23gs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">P.S. rumour has it that he may have found Jesus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His nickname is &#8220;Marmite&#8220;, and for good reason.Over the past years I have come to love and respect this man. So much so that in 2019 I got a disciplinary at work for a Facebook post about Tommy which upset some local woke clergy that I&#8217;d never met! And frankly I think this is why.Tommy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2025\/06\/03\/tommy-robinson-stephen-yaxley-lennon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley Lennon)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-poverty","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}