MOSCOW TOMMY: THE KREMLIN'S MOST USEFUL "USEFUL IDIOT"

by Daniel Barge

Why is the unflushable turd Tommy "fake name" Robinson still with us? One reason is that whenever he gets caught lying, stealing, pushing half of Columbia up his nose, or whatever, his moronic fan base treats every awkward fact about him as a "smear" cooked up by "the Blob," and Tommy is magically forgiven.

Another reason is that they lack basic pattern recognition skills.

One of the most interesting of Tommy's many patterns is his connection with the Kremlin, where he is cast as a kind of heroic Navalny figure taking on the "evil elite" of his power-mad country. Except for one big difference, the UK Deep State didn't brutally murder Robinson the way the Russian Deep State brutally murdered Navalny.

The romance between Robinson and the Russians goes back at least to 2019, when Edvard Chesnokov, a correspondent working at the foreign affairs desk of the Russian pro-regime tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda— a regime tabloid — noticed Tommy's troubles with British justice and spun it as an example of the big bad UK police state crushing an innocent dissident. Chesnokov even got the Russian Foreign Ministry to issue a statement about the “persecution of citizens for their beliefs,” as if coke-head shitmagnet Yaxley-Lennon was Solzhenitsyn. Chesnokov brought in Petr Bystron of the AfD, who then called on the German government to grant "political asylum" to Robinson to amply the fake victimisation narrative.

Bystron, BTW is the German version of Reform UK's disgraced Welsh leader Nathan Gill who was convicted of taking bribes to make pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament. In 2024 Bystron was caught taking €20,000 from the pro-Kremlin Internet network "Voice of Europe" financed by oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk.

Sensing the love in the Kremlin, in February 2020, Robinson popped up in Moscow, attending a conference run by Russia's fake Libertarian Party where he was feted as a hero who was speaking in the freedom-loving utopia because he was "silenced in the UK" and needed a platform. To be fair, at that point Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat had all banned Robinson, but to put things in context nobody had put a bullet in the back of his head or fed him a Novichok sandwich as frequently happens to Russian dissidents. 

This was not some fringe event. Robinson popped up everywhere as Moscow's poster child of the big bad West. He had a major interview published in Vechernyaya Moskva ("Evening Moscow") a long-running Russian daily newspaper based in Moscow, and was also seen on Konstantin Malofeev’s Tsargrad TV, and of course RT (now known as GB News in the UK). Talking points were the standard Kremlin package: America backs Islamist terrorists, Russia probably didn’t poison the Skripals, Putin is a strong leader, the EU wrecked Ukraine and Merkel was planning a NATO invasion.

The main event was a press conference at Komsomolskaya Pravda, moderated by Alexander Malkevich — the same Malkevich the United States sanctioned in 2018 for running Prigozhin’s "USA Really" disinformation shop. In other words, Robinson was basking in the glow of being the Kremlin's most useful of useful idiots.

Then there is the money question. Andrew Edge, a former senior figure in the English Defence League, let the cat out of the bag when he said Robinson rang him after leaving prison in September 2019 to ask about Russian bank accounts, and later claimed he had opened one. Three Robinson associates told The New York Times that part of his agenda in Moscow was to seek accounts with Russian banks.

"Mr. Robinson was already facing the libel suit and wanted to hide his money, Mr. Edge said. Before Mr. Robinson went to Moscow, Mr. Edge said he met with him and Paul Golding, the Britain First leader, for a dinner in which they discussed how to move money to Russia. Mr. Edge said Mr. Golding had already opened accounts there linked to his far-right group. Mr. Robinson also paid £300 to a local accountant in Dartford, near London, who advised him on how to move assets offshore, Mr. Edge said.

'Paul then advised him to go speak to the Russians and talked about how they were helpful with bank accounts,' said Mr. Edge, who provided a photograph of the three men at the restaurant."

Chesnokov confirmed the conversation happened, then added the usual "as far as I know he didn’t actually do it." In these circles, "as far as I know" does a lot of heavy lifting.

In 2021 Robinson recorded a video for Zakhar Prilepin’s pro-regime party "For Truth." Prilepin’s finance man was Alexander Babakov, the Kremlin’s long-time talent scout for Western politicians and the man who helped Marine Le Pen’s National Front secure a €9 million loan from the First Czech-Russian Bank in 2014. Once you see the pattern, it is hard to unsee it.

After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Robinson did not keep a polite distance. Instead he became one of the sewer pipes pumping the sludge of Kremlin disinformation to the online low-IQ, amplifying among other things, the biolabs conspiracy, the "West is backing neo-Nazis" line, and the claim that Ukraine was bombing its own civilians to frame Russia.

Robinson outside the Ukrainian embassy

In December 2022 Robinson even had the chutzpah to organise a small protest outside the Ukrainian embassy in London against British support for Kyiv. As he is also of an Irish Traveller background, he may also have offered to tarmac their driveway. Sadly the record is silent in this point. 

Robinson’s seven-man protest was dutifully covered by Russian media to imply that the average Brit was "anti-Ukrainian."

Robinson, as is well known, was also very much involved in stirring up and instigating the 2024 UK riots. It was very obvious at the time that the same online influence network, made up of dissident right influencers, bots, and fleshbot accounts based in the Third World, that had been parroting the Kremlin line on the Ukrainian war suddenly switched to reinforcing Robinson's efforts.

Ironically, considering his extremely traitorous, deceitful, manipulate and subversive behaviour, Robinson proves just what a bastion of freedom and human rights the UK is. He can still freely ask for donations from his deluded followers, hen fly to Moscow, sit under the lights of state media, recycling the host country’s talking points, and inquire about bank accounts and investment opportunities. How would the Russian's deal with a dissident figure like this? We all know.