It’s official! The state is deliberately starving Stephen Lennon (alias Tommy Robinson) in his prison cell. Well, almost official. In fact, it’s the current messaging on the rabble-rouser’s Twitter / X account, so you may well be assuming that its status is testicular in nature. And you’d be right,
“URGENT UPDATE ON TOMMY’S SITUATION” begins the latest Lennonist lamentation, with volume set to Spinal Tap levels. “Tommy is in solitary confinement for a civil offence.”
This whinge has been repeated ad nauseam ever since the Luton Leprechaun was banged up, and in reality it’s a petty nitpick. ‘Tommy’ has been imprisoned for contempt of court. That he has pig-headedly defied a judge’s instructions regarding a civil case rather than a criminal one does make him technically a civil prisoner, but it makes very little difference to his status. We think that he’s allowed to chav it up in his Burberry best rather than prison fatigues, but that’s about it.
Bollocks
“Now they’re trying to STARVE HIM,” continues the narrative, slipping back into Nigel Tufnel amp settings. “The prison has banned him from ordering food for a week – his only source of nutrition, tinned tuna and mackerel…” If it were true that he has been denied food for a week, that would indeed be outrageous. But it’s bollocks.
If it were true that he has been denied food for a week, that would indeed be outrageous. But it’s bollocks
All prisoners in England, whether criminal, civil or as yet unconvicted, receive three meals per day, at least one of them hot. There is usually a choice between standard fare, Kosher, Halal, vegetarian, vegan and special dietary needs as signed off by a doctor. We’ve even heard of armed robbers on a Buddhist diet. In some prisons, the special menus are rated tasty enough that prisoners misstate their religion just to get the better grub.
Tinned tuna and mackerel are not part of this regime. They can be purchased from the prison canteen as a kind of low-level luxury, along with various other snacks, mostly of a ‘junk food’ nature – sweets, crisps and so on.
Working class yobbo
If tinned fish really is Lennon’s “only source of nutrition” that can only mean that he is turning down his three per day. OK, prison grub may well not be as appetising as the tasty tapas that the expat is used to when sunning himself on the Costa Del Trotter, but it has to meet decent nutritional standards, including sufficient daily calorific value. Turning it down as being unsuited to his refined palate would, we suggest, be very hoity-toity for a supposedly working class yobbo.
“He’s lost serious weight,” say his proxy pearl-clutchers (probably the ‘Canada Wet’, Ezra Levant). “And his mental health is deteriorating”. His what? This is a bit like hearing that the Sahara is short of rain!
The Twitter claque was back on the bleat… sorry, ‘beat’ just yesterday, complaining that the prison “are forcing him into starvation”. And that one of his visits has been cancelled. All of this stems, by the way, from the Leprechaun breaching rules during telephone calls.
Visits to the canteen and generous phone/mail allowances, are technically privileges, and can be withdrawn as a way of enforcing prison discipline. He sins, he’s punished and he goes into snowflake mode
Our guess is that, knowing he’s in a category of convict not entitled to any reduction in his sentence for good behaviour, ‘Tommy’ has decided to be a complete pain in the arse. But he has, perhaps, forgotten that some things that he considers ‘standard’, such as visits to the canteen and generous phone/mail allowances, are technically privileges, and can be withdrawn as a way of enforcing prison discipline. He sins, he’s punished and he goes into snowflake mode.
And the whole ‘being starved’ shtick is just part of his long-running paranoid fantasy that the state wants to see him dead. We’re not exaggerating here. He has actually claimed that more than once. He thinks he’s in a prison with Muslim convicts because the authorities hope they will kill him.
This suspicion is bolstered by a post published not on Lennon’s own social media accounts, but which sounds pretty well informed. Authoritative enough to have been quoted on the hysterical (in both senses) Dan Wootton Outspoken vlog – though we confess that citing Desperate Dan is not setting the bar for veracity particularly high.
Refusing to eat
Anyway, the post in question is from June Slater, and it states that “He is surviving from tinned food and crisps, because it’s likely that the prison food is tampered with.” Though Slater is not exactly a gospel source, this does seem to bear out our beliefs both that Lennon is lawfully being supplied with a normal prison diet but is refusing to eat it (and thus starving himself) and that his persecution complex is close to climbing off the charts.
Anti-immigration, anti-vaccine, anti-Starmer, anti-EU (“communists”) and anti-Boris Johnson (“socialist”) activist Slater posts both under her own name and as ‘UK Politics uncovered’. She is, of course, a 100% well-balanced person, who has done nothing whatever to deserve the nickname ‘June the Loon’.
Threat monomania
Lennon’s death threat monomania also poses a question that we don’t think he has ever addressed. If the state wants him dead so badly, how come he’s still here? He would surely never have completed his holiday in Cyprus last year. The luxury Ayia Napa resort where he was photographed on a sunbed was less than a 15-minute drive for nearby British special forces, who could have ‘disappeared’ him in an instant.
The cultural warrior is, of course, due back in court next month to answer charges under terrorism laws. So be prepared. Just because the incontinent crybaby isn’t allowed into the prison tuck shop to buy some popcorn doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t stock up on a bucket or two.
