The Day For Freedom gathering had been prompted by far-right activists being stopped at the UK border, a border that they now seem to think is a little too strong, and the sting of a long-overdue Twitter ban for ex-English Defence League founder Robinson.

One of the people stopped at the border was Martin Sellner, an ethno-nationalist from Austria who founded the growing Generation Identity movement — a hip new way for Aryan airheads to celebrate their whiteness (more specifically, their non-Semitic whiteness).

The ideal GI activist has been sold to new recruits as the thinking man’s radical. They offer bootcamps in the European countryside to discuss philosophy, network with other young identitarians, and practice beating the living daylights out of each other. The emphasis on self-improvement and discipline is what attracts many of these eager young professionals. The toxic world-view promoted by GI is equal parts delusion and myopia, which results in disillusioned young adults trying to achieve ubermensch status by doing laps of a Bavarian lake until their feet bleed.

Sellner had been stopped at the border with his partner, American far-right personality Britanny Pettibone, after UK police had caught wind he was trying to stoke racial hatred at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park alongside Robinson.

As any good friend would, Robinson took a copy of Sellner’s speech and vowed to read aloud what the Establishment were apparently so scared of hearing.

Not scared enough, it would seem. They weren’t beaten, they weren’t silenced, they held their 10-minute rally and then hopped back into their minivan, leaving behind their loyal weekend warriors scratching their heads. HOPE not hate researcher Dr Joe Mulhall summed it up as such:

“Whilst most in attendance couldn’t hear the speech or even see Lennon, as there was no podium or amplification, copy of the speech has been subsequently released, full of Generation Identity rhetoric and terminology. That Lennon was willing to read out a speech of this nature, on behalf of Sellner, is further evidence of his increasingly close relationship with GI.”

He had read out Sellner’s speech because he wanted to defy the PC-culture wreaking havoc through his beloved country, to stand up for freedom of speech, to dare to speak the unspeakable, and so on and so on. But all this also served as a neat little conduit through which Robinson could tone up the racial aspect of his rhetoric under the guise that he was only reading another man’s words.

Previously, Robinson had steered clear of explicitly rights-for-whites matters. Instead he opted for a safer path by using every opportunity conceivable to deride Islam. Now he was indulging in Sellner’s spiel that Europeans were better off without all non-whites, regardless of religion.

All of a sudden his audience had graduated from the lowly swamplands of general bigotry to the high peaks of white-separatism. Finally Robinson’s audience were welcomed to the idea that not only could you hate Muslims for their bad religion, you could hate them simply because White people are better.

Sellner and his ilk want to keep Europe white. They oppose all non-white immigration because of something they ominously call the ‘Great Replacement’.

“We are fighting for the total closure of the border [into Europe] for non-European and Islamic immigration.”

It’s all a nicer way of saying that the white man is much better off without the swill of the non-whites. Through terms like these GI obfuscate their core values of white supremacy that Robinson has helped reach a whole new audience. This is not a liberal journalist’s perspective; Sellner’s ideology has proved extreme enough to start to attract neo-Nazis to GI’s ranks.

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It should also be pointed out that the words given by Robinson to his followers were written not only by a white-supremacist hiding under the banner of an identitarian, but an actual neo-Nazi. During his youth, Sellner was often seen with his mentor, convicted Austrian neo-Nazi Gottfried Küssel. His influence is felt throughout the ideology of GI but without the overtones of outright racism that gave Küssel his pretty dire optics.

What’s more, Sellner has taken heed of his 1980s recruitment tactics: Küssel sought football hooligans to help fill the ranks of his far-right movements. Now, Sellner is seeking the same demographic through Robinson, who started his career in the far-right mobilising anti-Islam street movements from hooligan subcultures.

Robinson’s main argument for why the press seem to hate him is that he opposes Islam — nothing more, nothing less. This is plainly untrue, now even more so. He plays dumb to the fact that he is promoting the work of fascists and continues his enemy-of-the-state shtick.

By welcoming his supporters to people like Sellner and organisations like Generation Identity, he has helped introduce a whole new swath of working class men to white supremacy in the UK.

And what bad has ever come of that?