Sharon Osbourne pledges to attend Tommy Robinson’s anti-immigration march in London
Sharon Osbourne has revealed her intention to attend an upcoming march by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson in London.
Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, previously held an anti-immigration rally at Trafalgar Square, called Unite the Kingdom, which was attended by more than 100,000 people in September.
On May 16th, Robinson is once again organising another rally at the central London location under the Unite the Kingdom umbrella.
In a recent social media video, uploaded to Instagram by GauciReports, Robinson said that “May 16th is the date that Britain rises” and “the date that the world hears our roar”, before adding, “We have had enough of migration, enough of mass immigration, we’ve had enough of oppression from a tyrannical government.”
Robinson then made a series of incendiary comments about foreign nationals who arrive in the UK from Afghanistan on small boats being rapists.
He also shared his plans to “bring London to a standstill” and said, “They have tried to silence us for decades, but we will be silenced no more”.
In response to the inflammatory anti-immigration speech by Robinson, Osbourne, who lived outside of the UK for decades in the US before recently returning, commented, “See you at the march”.
Osbourne said earlier this year that she was “seriously thinking about running for mayor of Birmingham” while speaking to Billboard at the red carpet of the Grammys.
It came after she previously commented on an Instagram post in February, stating that she was “gonna move to Birmingham and put my name down for the ballot to be on the council” after learning that Shahid Butt, who was convicted of a terror offence in 1999, was standing as an independent candidate.
Butt later told the BBC amid the controversy over his plans to stand, “I’ve always maintained from day one, that these were false, fabricated charges that were put against me, I was tortured into signing a confession.”
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