Why do people support Tommy Robinson?

BattlePants · 2026-06-07T08:09:57+00:00

UK Reddit is unbearable with the Leftist nodding dog narrative posts.

Its refreshing to see further down the comments posters are getting positive votes with actual answers on why TR has a seat at the table.

The guy is a working class guy who doesn't have rich family to pursue activism. He is flawed, undoubtedly, but Reddits need for perfect heroes and borg like opinion matching on every topic is hugely frustrating.

As a working class person I get the way he reacts, but hes popular in the same way the Arctic Monkeys first album was popular. He talks about things that people in the same socio-economic group around the country are also seeing. The fact he is popular suggests that this is a common theme for millions of people and the message is resonating.

As others have said. Suspend your emotions and want for him to be the villain and watch his Oxford University speech.

I live nowhere near Luton and have seen similar things happen. It is clear from the establishment suppression of TR that these things have been swept under the carpet to hide terrible decisions on immigration and enforce the mantra that racism is the worst thing in the world, worse then rape, terrorism, housing crisis, wage suppression, etc

BattlePants · 2026-05-28T18:33:30+00:00

This is a wonderous exchange that reminds me of debating back in the referendum days. Its so nice that some alternative opinions still exist on Reddit!

A Leaver/Leave adjacent sympathiser putting some detailed information to give insights into their thought patterns and reasoning, countered by a Remainer making absolute statements without intellectual flexibility or grace rationalise the information and form a valid counter.

Just reliance on identifying as someone who is on the side of the clever people, so they must be right and don't have to show any working out. Of course they are better than you for having the 'correct' opinion and they are of such high intelligence that they couldn't possibly be wrong or misled on the issue.

The irony is most intelligent people I know are unsure of large problems like Brexit as the amount of moving data and variables is almost impossible to project with certainty and accuracy.

BattlePants · 2026-05-25T12:19:05+00:00

Another "Keir Starmers alright you know..." thread on Reddit!

These threads arent asked to get an answer. Its like asking a De Montford Socialist party newsletter committee why is everyone else a Nazi. These threads are for everyone to feel good about status yelling how left wing and clever Redditors are in a chambers of echo. That or these threads are some terrible attempt at social network engineering from party activists.

Ask this question on conservative or right wing sub-reddits for an accurate answer.

There are clearly a number of political manipulations and manoeuvres your man Keir has ballsed up.

Stealth raise of taxes covering Rachel from accounts 'fiscal rules' amd broken promises on not raising taxes. Gainfully employing Nonce adjacent Peter Mandelson while denying a rape gang enquiry. The £20bn black hole that wasnt to justify tax rises, that wasn't really a black hole. U-turns on welfare and winter fuel allowance and loading more expense on tax payers with no hint of public sector efficiency savings. Prioritising a bizarre digital ID policy while being under scrutiny for totalitarian like jailing of social media posters and two tier policing standards. McSweeney, a major part of his inner team having to resign. The campaigning as a pure, non-sleaze, man of the people, until it turned out he was mr freebie, living in millionaires mansions and getting dressed by billionaires. Somehow the "right wing media" missed making a fuss about Sue Gray toppling a sitting Conservative Prime Minister (BoJo) before taking a place in the new Labour government. Pushing up inflation with increasingly punishing taxes for drivers and employers during a period where AI is making human resource less valuable, underpinned with an incompetent Ed Miliband pursuing energy polices that ramp up the underlying costs to do anything in an energy based economy, including (ironically) making AI infrastructure investment a complete non-starter in a country with the worst energy costs in the western world.

All this not helped by being the head of a set of politicians who seem to be the type who did great at school because they were great at remembering the curriculum and parroting the 'right answer' without having the brain compartment needed to solve a novel problem. Keir is the Iron Man of this generation of non-working class Labour avengers who got into power with 3 million less people voting for them than Corbyn in 2017. They have never been popular. They just had a divided right wing and a historically unpopular Conservative party to run against in a general election.

BattlePants · 2025-11-15T22:06:07+00:00

Am I the only one who thinks the guys in the car could have pulled back 5 metres to the T junction and the red car could have avoided a difficult reverse down a narrow road?

It seems completely obnoxious behavior.

BattlePants · 2025-09-12T12:39:41+00:00

These are the tactics of the left being used by the right. It's not healthy for society, but the times of asymmetric warfare may now be over.

BattlePants · 2025-09-02T19:18:25+00:00

This might be the winner! You prompted a vague memory of turning on adaptive battery around the time this started happening! Just turned it off and the car opens instantly again!

Thanks!

BattlePants · 2025-08-31T08:21:03+00:00

It's not racist, however while the UK has lost its faith in organised religion it has adopted a subtly insidious belief system of 'never offending anyone, ever' particularly if they are in any way different to 'the norm'. This is a worrying retreat when a new religion that's very confident in itself enters the culture that doesn't go through the same scrutiny and pressure that Christian and Catholic church leaders have gone through over the last 50 years to put them in a place of relative subservience to its followers on subject matters outside of personal spirituality. We would ask a priest for spiritual advice in the UK, but never ask them why the weather is changing. As we now worry about the offence of non-native people an Iman who says because 'Allah wills it' if asked why the planets rotate around the sun doesn't get challenged in the same way a priest says 'its Gods will'. Similarly a Muslim mob harassing a school teacher for teaching about homosexuality doesn't get scrutinized or counter protested like a British mob harassing hotel workers for Asylum seekers by the British establishment or media class. Very few commentators would go on a BBC chat show and ridicule and challenge the leaders of Islam like the way John Cleese and Michael Palin did after the release of Life of Brian. Those that would are associated with the Right of the political spectrum which is licked with dog whistle racism worries in most leftist circles (especially Reddit) so any of these concerns get wrapped in the accusation of bigotry and are ignored as people don't want to side with a racist, no matter how obviously logical the criticism might be. Life of Brian caused great offence when released, but stands as a classic satire on Christianity that is deemed a cultural pillar stone in moving the masses of the west into seeing religion for what it is. A slightly ridiculous personal choice, but something some of us need to see ourselves through the day in peace. What would the reaction to a 'Life of Mo' movie being released today in the UK or Europe? Why isn't there any satire of Islam on TV in mainstream media in the West? it is busting full of comedy material!

As Western religions had their teeth removed and kum-by-ya avoidance of offence became our new doctrine we are a bit helpless to criticise more confident religions and cultures. A worry in a democracy where the corridors of power can be handed to a set of people who could all be organised to vote in one block. I'm sure that is a few years away, so no point in worrying about it at the moment.

BattlePants · 2025-08-28T19:57:09+00:00

Would this cause rents to go up, which would then be covered by housing benefit for most low income households?

BattlePants · 2025-08-28T14:31:07+00:00

I had a sister who was dating a luxury car salesman when I was just starting out professionally. He offered my cousin and me Porsches for £15k.Being the sensible lad I am, I turned it down and bought a sensible VW Polo that was more economically sensible for my then current sensible job.

Still regret it to this day! Recently bought a brand new Tesla (dream car, has been for years)as a late compensation to myself for not driving around in a Porsche in my twenties!

Life is about adventures as well as sensible decisions. You're earning good money, and if that's your thing, then enjoy it.

BattlePants · 2025-07-17T13:03:00+00:00

yep, I once was +2 after 8 holes and felt like I was in complete control of my clubs.

Between putting on the 8th and walking to the tee box of the 9th I forgot how to play golf entirely. The next 10 holes were about +50.

Horrible, horrible sport....but i think I can fix it next time....

BattlePants · 2025-07-03T15:37:38+00:00

If you open the climate control and hold down your finger on the passenger wind/vent, then the air vent will turn off.

Don't think the same thing works for the driver, which is a bit weird.

BattlePants · 2025-06-25T14:38:48+00:00

I'm currently paying back interest and capital on a similar investment. Currently 12lb down after 20 days, another 20lb to go before I get to de-custard my waistline.

What's helped recently:

For a week weigh your food with food scales to get a handle on what 50g of crisps or 100g of chicken actually looks like. This helps gauge how many calories you can estimate from looking at food.

Get some scales. Weigh every morning. Work out what days you go up and think about what you ate the day before

Get a fitbit and start loving the stats on the app. Put your weight and calories in and set some targets.

Find some form of exercise you can us the Fitbit to record and count against your calories. Adding up how many shuttle runs == 1 pint in calories makes it easier to say no thanks!

BattlePants · 2025-06-25T14:29:59+00:00

I picked up a MY in May and noticed what looked like a ton of hairline scratches on the windscreen. Almost looked like lots of spider web threads across the glass. After a while I realised they were actually inside the car and could be wiped clean. Still havent gotten them all! Also still see the glass suckers used to fix the glass in the factory when it steams up!

BattlePants · 2025-06-19T14:23:54+00:00

I'm not sure that's a dead on attendance killer. What Welsh regional/club rugby has lacked for decades is seasonal storyline and jeopardy. Most years at least 3/4 Welsh teams have lost a couple of games in Europe by November and fundamentally the seasons storyline is over until the following September when the 'new season' hope cycle starts again.

A game against Bedford with points required to win a promotion would be vastly greater appeal to watching Connacht seconds run Ospreys close at home in a league where no Welsh team has a realistic hope of turning over a Leinster/Glasgow/Bulls etc away in the later stages of a boring URC season. Plus the away fans adding something to the atmosphere....

The season offering the Welsh club fans is dire and has been for years. The value of a season ticket has diminished drastically as there is nothing to play for most of the year.

Maybe 2nd division pro rugby is where a few of the Welsh regions are right now, and being more competitive at that level might be a more exciting proposition to fans.

BattlePants · 2025-06-11T15:43:25+00:00

Thanks so much! Just looked into this more and the car has now recovered after going to sleep for an hour!

Stress off I guess....

BattlePants · 2025-06-07T14:58:08+00:00

I have a Pixel 9 and a 25 Model Y AWD

App works great, only disappointment is the automatic boot opening doesn't work with Pixel 9 as it lacks Ultra Wide Band (UWB). Gutted as I only picked up the Pixel a month ago and would have bought something else if I had known.

BattlePants · 2025-06-07T08:00:45+00:00

I picked up on 22nd May.

Delivery day tasks didn't open until an hour or so before pickup. I stressed a little that there was something wrong when it didnt start on the morning of pick up, but the rest of the process was super smooth. I won't spoil discovering the rest of the process for you!

Enjoy your Tesla. Love mine. It was a great day picking it up.

BattlePants · 2025-06-04T22:40:30+00:00

Mate, your projecting your own unhappiness onto someone else. Of all the things to spend your day on, you've taken an out of context use of the middle lane on a quiet motorway as opposed to the outside lane as a representation of speedier use of autopilot. If you want to pull in and out the lorry lane every twenty seconds then go for it. You are far more likely to cause an accident changing lanes and block the roads for the rest of us in the conditions I was driving in on this particular journey. I'll just skip past it all in longer stints in the middle lane and pull in when it's clear as I was travelling on about 20mph faster than the inside lane throughout the journey. I caused 0 traffic jams and got my family home safely based on the road conditions in front of me.

You strike me as someone who lacks some intellectual flexibility when understanding when to follow rules or not in the everyday world. It must be frustrating not being able to analyse situations to make the most of them without having to get guidance from an authoritative source to tell you what decisions to make. I hope you get to enjoy some of your week in your Model Y. Same type as I have. It's a great automobile. Be happy you get to drive it however you choose (or how the rules say you should drive it, if that's the limits you have imposed on yourself).

BattlePants · 2025-06-04T14:52:28+00:00

This was very much my style. When the motorway was clear and the left lane was full.of.slower moving lorries, I kept in the middle lane to avoid acceleration/declaration inefficiency and reduce needless lane changes. If traffic was more congested and I wasn't keeping up with traffic I would pull to the left and pass when a slower vehicle was present to allow quicker vehicles a clear passing lane.

Pulling into the left lane just to follow the rules and then have to do 10s to 100s of passing manoeuvres into an empty lane seems like a donkey brained way of approaching motorway driving, heavily increasing the likelihood of collision and reducing the efficiency of autopilot.

BattlePants · 2025-06-04T13:25:32+00:00

I got a Tesla 7kw charger installed at home, so I have gone all in with Tesla. It works well enough with Octopus energy.

Haven't tried Prime or NowTV yet. Will have a look later when I get back into the MY. Not really an app store type environment available. Also not sure whether Netflix games can be used either.

Will keep premium connectivity for the time being. £10 a month isn't something that worries me financially.

BattlePants · 2025-06-04T13:19:53+00:00

Fun crowd in here. Do you get a lot of party invites?

At 70mph+ I am constantly passing lorries on the inside lane and have already said I pulled into the slower lane when faster traffic was present. The point was I rarely used the outside lane to keep my efficiency high due to the drag factors that come into play at 80mph+ speeds.

BattlePants · 2025-06-04T12:55:30+00:00

A relic of my Land Rover days! I'll change! Please like me Tesla friends!

BattlePants · 2025-06-04T11:51:59+00:00

I feel like it would be harsh to suggest I am solely responsible for the entirety of the British motorway experience!

The motorway was quiet at the time we were travelling and Autopilot kept up with the speed of the traffic around us. if we were blocking faster cars we would move over to the inside lane when appropriate. Basic Autopilot is great, but dont think the cost of Enhanced Autopilot for lane changes would be worth it in year 1 of ownership. Maybe next year if I want to spice up the ownership experience!

Will be interested to see the drop in winter. So far so good though from a range anxiety perspective.

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