Fighting back against the label "far-right" 7 years ago - Tommy Robinson and the EDL

This is a video I published almost 2 years ago on YouTube. I'm always keen to move old content to 3speak as I never know when my YouTube Channel will be deleted.

Original description: "Going over a back and forth discussion with the Press Complaints Commission sent in by the EDL over the continued use of the term far-right."

I'm sharing this now because today word comes that Brendan O'Neill, a well renowned writer and journalist, has fought a battle with the Independent far-left, progressive blog (formerly a Newspaper) because they've decided he is now part of the far-right. He isn't. Just as Tommy Robinson and the EDL were not far-right a decade ago. And Tommy has fought the the label but once it stuck, it stuck.

I managed to get the Daily Mail to at least acknowledge that the only reason they called the EDL and Tommy "far-right" was because everyone else did. They couldn't come up with any evidence or reasoning as to why they warranted that description.

Here is the full story of how the @independent smeared Brendan O’Neill as “far right” and then refused to admit their error even when proven wrong.

This is what happens when news outlets prioritise activism over journalistic integrity. pic.twitter.com/SP7XpQqWR1

— andrewdoyle_com (@andrewdoyle_com) May 10, 2020