Tommy Robinson on holiday with Southport riot instigator

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Tommy Robinson on holiday with Southport riot instigator

NOTE: This article was published on 26 June 2025Ever since we reported on Tommy Robinson’s various post-prison vacations, people have been asking who he is actually enjoying his holidays with. Well, now we know. His Tenerife holiday companion is Danny Tommo, aka Daniel Thomas, a man who more than anyone was responsible for inciting last…

26 June 2025

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NOTE: This article was published on 26 June 2025

Danny Tommo's rant — Danny Tommo’s online call for riots: “Every city has to go up”

Ever since we reported on Tommy Robinson’s various post-prison vacations, people have been asking who he is actually enjoying his holidays with. Well, now we know. His Tenerife holiday companion is Danny Tommo, aka Daniel Thomas, a man who more than anyone was responsible for inciting last August’s Southport riots.

Over the last few days Robinson’s posts on X have contained a number of clues about his companion. First there was clip of Robinson being handed an ice cream and saying ‘Thanks Danny’.

Then there was a video of Robinson asleep poolside which was apparently posted by Tommo.

But the clincher came yesterday when Robinson -real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – posted a clip of them eating together, with Tommo very briefly caught in vision.

Danny Tommo, real name Daniel Thomas, should have been arrested after the riots in August for posting one of the most inflammatory calls to violence to his 68,000 followers. In fact, it was extraordinary that he wasn’t.

As we wrote at the time:

“It was Tommo who broadcast the first call to riot online on the Monday night. It was directed to his 68,000 YouTube followers and thousands more on Twitter, many of them their mates in various hooligan gangs and football firms round the country – the dregs of the now disbanded English Defence League – and was the rallying call to which the racist hooligans and far-right thugs responded”.

Filming himself in his car he ranted that:

“Every city has to go up.

“Get prepared. Be ready. We have to.

“It has to go off in different cites.

“We have to show them we’ve had enough…

“I’m ready to go. I know that a lot of you are. I’m speaking to other people at the moment.

“We’re ready to go. We are, literally, ready to go…

“Just get ready…”

Robinson and Tommo have been close for years, and Tommo has been his right hand man in organising political events. Only a week before the riots, he and Robinson appeared together on the platform of Robinson’s rally in Whitehall.

Tommy Robinson and Danny Tommo on platform at Whitehall rally

Now claiming to be a born-again Christian (funny how fashionable that is becoming in the Tommy Robinson world) Tommo is in fact a criminal lowlife who was jailed for two years in 2015 for an attempted kidnap in a dispute over stolen drugs.

When Tommy Robinson was in Telford campaigning against grooming gangs, Tommo was accused by the father of a grooming gang survivor of plying his daughter with drink and drugs trying to get her into bed.

Tommo has denied any role in inciting the riots. But as we asked at the time, “What part of ‘Every city must go up’ is a call for peace?”

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Keywords: Daniel Thomas, Danny Tommo, Stephen Yaxley Lennon, Tommy Robinson

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