TOMMY
Robinson is campaigning in Heywood today. Various political and regious bodies are putting on a peaceful counter
demonstration. It is not peace
group led, nor Labour, just people who are very concerned by what they regard as his racist views, etc - people who say they 'don't want the shame of seeing him
represent the north west in the European Parliament'.
Tommy Robinson, who has campaigned for Brexit, is an adviser to UKIP, but is standing as an independent candidate in the North West in the Euro elections.
His local critics are meeting at Heywood Civic Centre at 1pm. A journalist from the Guardian is expected to be present for the event.
A statement signed by Heywood and Middleton MP Liz McInnes, eight priests and vicars and seven councillors says: "We want to express our deep concern about the visit to Heywood of Tommy Robinson.
"As civic and faith leaders in Heywood, we believe that racism, intolerance and hatred are no way to build a civilised and peaceful society. Such views have no place in our political conversations."
They reminded us that:
"In the middle of the nineteenth century the Irish, escaping from famine, settled here to work in the mills; in the 1960s Heywood was enriched by the many Mancunians who settled on Darnhill."
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A statement signed by Heywood and Middleton MP Liz McInnes, eight priests and vicars and seven councillors says: "We want to express our deep concern about the visit to Heywood of Tommy Robinson.
"As civic and faith leaders in Heywood, we believe that racism, intolerance and hatred are no way to build a civilised and peaceful society. Such views have no place in our political conversations."
They reminded us that:
"In the middle of the nineteenth century the Irish, escaping from famine, settled here to work in the mills; in the 1960s Heywood was enriched by the many Mancunians who settled on Darnhill."
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