Sharon Osbourne has seemingly confirmed plans to attend an anti-immigration march organised by far-right commentator Tommy Robinson.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, held a similar anti-immigration rally at Trafalgar Square, called ‘Unite the Kingdom’, which drew over 100,000 participants in September. A new march under that same banner will take place on May 16.
“We have had enough of migration, enough of mass immigration, we’ve had enough of oppression from a tyrannical government,” claimed Robinson in a video uploaded to Instagram under the account GauciReports.
He said he wanted to “bring London to a standstill” adding, “They have tried to silence us for decades, but we will be silenced no more”.
“We don’t want another three years of borders open,” he claimed and later echoed a statistic quoted by Nigel Farage that people from Afghanistan are 22 times more likely than Britons to have committed a sexual offence, which has since been debunked.
Osbourne, the widow and former manager of the late Ozzy Osbourne who has lived in the US for decades before returning to the UK last year, commented on the post: “See you at the march.”
At least 25 people were arrested at the previous ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march, and 26 police officers were injured at the event.
Other far-right figures, such as Katie Hopkins and Laurence Fox, were also in attendance. Elon Musk gave a speech via video link, criticising what he called the “woke mind virus” and telling the crowd that “violence is coming” and “you either fight back or you die”.
Tim Booth, of rock band James, later hit out at Robinson and attendees of the rally, for their “cynical” use of the band’s track ‘Sit Down’.
Robinson used the song in a video posted to X, which showed the size of the crowd at the rally. Booth said he was “disgusted” by the use of the song, without the band’s permission, and called the track “the antithesis” of the far-right activist’s movement.
An estimated 5000 anti-fascist counter-protesters faced the far-right activist-led “unite the kingdom” rally. Many of these counter-protesters were trapped and surrounded by those attending the “unite the kingdom” march, who did not let them leave for over three hours, according to The Guardian.
In other news, earlier this year, Osbourne claimed she was “seriously thinking” about running to become the Mayor of Birmingham on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards.
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