"Davy Cooling [said by Searchlight to be a member of both the BNP and the MIGs (Men in Gear), a football hooligan firm from Luton which, according to Searchlight, doubled as activists for the BNP] is a nice bloke. The MIGs are a football hooligan element from Luton Town who pretty much haven't been around since the 1980s. He's in the EDL, but I know everyone in Luton and I know Davy Cooling is not in the MIGs. I know who is and isn't in the MIGs. So you have to question whether he's a BNP member or not as well. He swears he's not, but I've heard someone say he's on the leaked list. But at the same time, Davy Cooling hangs around many black lads. Even if he is a BNP member, it doesn't mean he's racist.

"I don't believe that the BNP could be a political voice for the country because they only represent the white people, and only the British whites at that. To say that their stance on not allowing non-white people to join isn't racist is ridiculous. If they change that then they'll appeal to a lot more people, but I still don't like it. From my own personal point of view, having some very good black, Indian, and Asian friends, I'd never accept them and I'd never stand with them in anything."

It takes a long time to get Robinson on to specific points like these, because what he really wants to talk about is the problem of radical Islam, the creeping Islamification of our society, and the emerging double standards, especially with regards to police treatment of protesters, that he has experienced. Once he gets started on this subject, a floodgate opens and it's almost impossible to make him stop. Most of what he says would be nothing new to Standpoint readers, but some of his views are entirely lacking in perspective. One of the things he's particularly worked up about is the threat of "Christmas being called anything other than Christmas". On the question of the intimidating paramilitary-style balaclavas that the EDL often wear, he responds, "What, more intimidating than ten burkas?"

But there are two good reasons for his obsession. The first is that he happens to live in a place where the real fascists of al-Muhajiroun have been operating with impunity for a long time. After the protest against the soldiers, Akbar Dad Khan of Luton's Building Bridges organization, said, "They are about 10-15 hotheads. The best thing to do is just to ignore them." But, sadly, both parts of this statement are incorrect. In 2004, Sayful Islam, the leader of the Luton branch of al-Muhajiroun, told the London Evening Standard: "There are more than 50 members [in Luton], and hundreds more support us." They have been ignored since then, left to grow unchecked, and have contributed to a dramatic failure of integration in a town that is home to the highest-density Muslim population in the south-east. 

"Since 2001, that group, al-Mujahideen [sic], and them extremists have been in our town centre. They've been outside Don Millers bakery in the middle of our town, and outside Luton University, handing out their propaganda. And no one's done anything about it. And to think that what they're preaching to their youth doesn't spill over and affect us, and doesn't make their youth attack our youth, is just so naïve. People say, ‘Oh well no one listens to them' — yes they bloody do!