The Met Police social media team cleverly decided to amplify a Tommy Robinson X post

The famously smart and efficient Met Police took it on themselves to amplify a Tommy Robinson tweet for no reason anyone can discern. Far-right grifter Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) was waffling about the horrific Golders Green attack at the time.

The Met, in their infinite wisdom, decided to comment on 29 April. And in doing so they dignified Tiny Tel Aviv Tommy’s far-right rant.

The Met Police posted:

Our brave officers confronted a man they believed to be a terrorist, who refused to show his hands, who was violent, and who continued to pose a clear threat. Using only their training, courage and tasers, they detained him while he continued to try to attack and stab them. This took true courage.

Our brave officers confronted a man they believed to be a terrorist, who refused to show his hands, who was violent, and who continued to pose a clear threat. Using only their training, courage and tasers, they detained him while he continued to try to attack and stab them. This…

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) April 29, 2026

Maybe it did “take courage”, as the Met said. But the question remains… why is an arm of the British state amplifying arguably the most prominent fascist in the land?

The move left many people stumped. Some people thought it was down to a similar far-right ideological lens:

The fact that @metpoliceuk is responding to a Nazi, racist, white supremacist Tommy Robinson shows how NAZI of an organization the Met Police actually is https://t.co/43MUisxwnw

— Tired Millennial (@_me_I_am_) April 30, 2026

Academic and campaigner Phil Proudfoot was similarly flabbergasted:

Sorry why is the Met replying to, and amplifying, Tommy Robinson!? https://t.co/zLqnIQAFjn

— Philip Proudfoot (@PhilipProudfoot) April 29, 2026

Other X users reported that the Met were replying to other far-right accounts — like @inevitablewest — which had been commenting on Golders Green:

The Met Police are now replying to every extreme hard right account on Twitter X to gain support for the questionable restraint tactics of their officers on the offender in the Golders Green stabbings

They’ve also responded to Tommy Robinson

I asked them directly – no reply https://t.co/7pfF2aByJW

— Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel (@MirabelTweets1) April 29, 2026

Another speculated that there might be a Tommy supporter on the comms team:

Sorry what the fuck is happening? Some social media manager is clearly a lover of the car right and wants to give em some attention https://t.co/qpz1sEdPn3

— solman (@ChatzSol) April 29, 2026

A ‘disturbing’ decision from the Met Police

Green Party candidate Jamie Strudwick called the move “disturbing”:

Why in the fuck is the Metropolitan Police amplifying a known criminal and far-right agitator? This is insanely disturbing and needs to be looked into. https://t.co/WiU20IoIRg

— Jamie Strudwick 🏳️‍🌈💚 (@JamieStrud) April 29, 2026

One X user pointed out Tommy’s thugs regularly fight the police. Usually at protests, when the fash can’t get hold of members of, for example, the marginalised groups they loathe:

@metpoliceuk why are you replying to a repeat offender whose ‘boys’ are regularly involved in violent attacks against the police? https://t.co/gYiDTtSCnC

— Greg Herriett (@greg_herriett) April 30, 2026

For the record, Tommy Robinson’s relationship to the police goes back a long way. He seems to spend half his time in a cell… As fact-checkers from Factually put it, he has a:

long, well-documented history of criminal convictions across violent, fraud, immigration and contempt-of-court offences, and his legal troubles have repeatedly intersected with his activism and media activities; these cases have produced both criminal sentences and political controversies at home and abroad.

All in all, not a bad day’s work for the Met. They’ve managed to alienate even more people than they usually do in the day-to-day grind of protecting property, harassing innocent people and generally hanging around the city like a bad smell.

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