Thousands attend Tommy Robinson BBC demo - BBC News

An estimated 4,000 supporters of the former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson protested outside the BBC's offices in Salford over a forthcoming Panorama investigation about him.

Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also criticised reporter John Sweeney.

Earlier, hundreds of anti-fascist demonstrators staged a counter-protest nearby at MediaCityUK.

[Rucky]

I guess the BBC will say that they covered it now

[wealth]

Thousands of people opposing the disintegration of the UK.
What is wrong with that?

[ArcadeCabNBud]

i cancelled my tv license 3 years ago, the bbc will never get a single penny out of me again, ever. down with the tv license !

[AlanWattResistance]

Better to be far-right than far-wrong.

[truthnotopinion]

The BBC virtue signalling days are coming to an end!

[nikiheaney]

John been sacked yet? Or is it okay for him to talk about us 'working class' like that? And calling gays 'woofters'? Im gonna guess he wont get sacked.... another cover up.... jimmy all over again!

[greenyab]

LOL! The BBC is going down faster than the Titanic! Its quite fascinating to be here to witness it actually.

[Er]

Jimmy saville would be proud of you BBC.

[dobs]

John Sweeny clearly has a serious drink problem .

[stephenyaxley-lennon]

Was so shocked what I seen.. well done bbc for publishing this. It shows how bad you really are, how many people have cancelled the tv licence now ?

[FengLong]

I notice you showed the crowd before the event, while it was still filling up; but didn’t show the full crowd while the event was taking place.
Also, we still want answers to questions over the methods used by your media outlet regarding the commissioning of false claims of sexual misconduct, the witness coaching and culture of outrageous expense claims, etc.
Should the public really be forced to pay for all of that?

[truthnotopinion]

Millions may stop paying the licence fee now, jeez that was probably the most expensive lunch in the history of the UK!

[SR-uijy]

Having read the full article:
F for fail.
Now go and write out 1000 times.
We must not tell lies and do political hit pieces on our opposition.

[paulsmith]

I wonder how much this 29 seconds of nothing cost us?

[cloudfactory]

Reading various forums and news reports, they are all calling it a protest, and none of them are mentioning the real reason it happened, the panodrama documentry.

[areyouserious]

Was John Sweery too drunk to narrate this one then ??.

[neilproctor]

Are you kidding me BBC! Where's your lefty reporters explaining what they all watched?

[theworldisavampire]

God bless you TOMMY ROBINSON
Much love from the USA 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[VCanisMajorisY]

The funniest take I had on this was a sitting labour MP calling Tommy Robinson an anti-Semite

[nickread]

Thousands? That's surprising lol I though there was only a couple of hundred again?? Bye bye bbc end of this month when I move there will be no need to pay for your lies