FAR-RIGHT hot-head Tommy Robinson has announced plans to tour Australia next month where he will speak alongside the founder of another right-wing group.
As the Sun Online revealed last week, the former EDL leader, 35, discussed plans to launch a worldwide tour that could net him millions during his lavish Parliament lunch.
Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon – was celebrating with Ukip bigwig Lord Pearson, Ukip leader Gerard Batten and Canadian shock-jock Ezra Levant after his contempt of court charges were sent to the Attorney General.
Now on bail, he is hoping to cash in on his new-found fame with a series of speaking tours across the globe.
He has already received one firm offer to talk in Washington DC in a fortnight.
The event has been organised by the Middle East Forum, a controversial think-tank based in Philadelphia, along with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a California-based “school for political warfare” set up to defend conservative values from “attack by leftist and Islamist enemies.”
The Middle East Forum has already given Robinson “five-figure” financial support for his legal defence, as well as organising London rallies and political lobbying.
In the invitation it says “Is Mr Robinson’s plight America’s future?”
However it does explain that Robinson will be able to speak only “assuming all the legal issues are sorted out.”
He has a string of criminal convictions and was jailed for 13 months for contempt in May for allegedly breaching reporting restrictions around a grooming gang – although this was later overturned by the court.
It is not known if the convictions will hamper his chances of getting a visa to the USA.
Tommy Robinson addresses crowds outside after he’s freed on bail as his case is referred to the attorney general
After the Washington DC event, Robinson is set to appear alongside Gavin McInnes, the Canadian founder of the alt-right group Proud Boys, at a series of speeches in Australia in December.
The pair say they will appear in Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Sydney between December 5 and December 16.
The tour, dubbed “The Deplorables”, is being organised by Penthouse magazine and follows controversial visits by right-wing figures Milo Yiannopoulos and Lauren Southern, both of which were marred by violence.
In a video he posted to Facebook on Tuesday, Robinson boasted: “Australia thinks they’ve seen scenes when they’ve had talks and guest speakers there.
“You ain’t seen nothing like the scenes you’re going to get if I’m allowed to come to your country and tell you the real score on what’s heading your way.”
He added: “Eight weeks ago I was sitting in solitary confinement in prison, and now I’m probably going to address American Congress and speak in cities across Australia.”
Almost 20,000 have signed a petition calling for the right-wing pair to be allowed into Australia.
The controversial plans have sparked concerns Down Under over the threat of violence after some members of McInnes’s Proud Boys group were filmed fighting with counter demonstrators in New York last month.
Australia’s Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dr Dvir Abramovich has urged the country’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to deny Robinson a visa, saying his “race-baiting promotes religious bigotry”.
Australia’s Labor party immigration spokesman Shayne Neumann has meanwhile written to immigration minister David Coleman asking for Robinson’s Canadian co-speaker McInnes to be barred from the country.
Facebook yesterday banned the Proud Boys group from Facebook and Instagram.
They said: “We will take action against hate speech and hate organisations to keep our community safe.”
A spokesman for British campaign group Hope Not Hate said: “Far right figures like Stephen Lennon and Gavin McInnes are building an international network.
“They’re seeking new platforms to fundraise, get media attention and recruit supporters.
“Where they go, violence isn’t far behind. Australia should keep this hate out.”
They say the speaking tours will open up new sources of funding to the 35-year-old.
A spokesperson for the Department of Home Affairs in Australia declined to say whether visas for the pair would be rejected.
They said: “The Department does not comment on individual cases.”
One ex-assistant to Robinson, who had access to his Stripe online payment processing account, claimed it contained £2million after his jailing and appeal, thanks to the donations that flooded in.
With the money pouring in, Luton-born Robinson recently moved into a £950,000 house in a Bedfordshire village.
More than 1500 people turn up in support of Tommy Robinson outside the Old Bailey where he faces his latest court battle over contempt of court charges
Heidi Beirich, deputy director of the Southern Poverty Law Centre, which monitors hate groups across the US, said the level of support for Robinson is “extraordinary”.
She said: “I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s not typical to have those kind of political officials advocating on behalf of people who take part in street fights and anti-Muslim rallies. It’s a shock.”
US president Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon – who once called Robinson the “f***ing backbone” of Britain has also proposed including him in a new far-right populist group in Europe called The Movement.
Meanwhile Candice Malcolm, a Canadian commentator, who was invited to last week’s Parliament lunch told the Sun Online there were discussions to “continue the momentum”.
She added: “If Tommy came to Canada he would get a big reception. There’s certainly a political movement that seems to be unfolding.”
IN CONTEMPT: The trial that saw Tommy Robinson jailed
THE FORMER leader of far right group the English Defence League was jailed for 13 months after he risked derailing the trials.
Tommy Robinson went on Facebook and streamed an hour-long rant in which he named the defendants and all the charges they face.
His broadcast was in flagrant breach of the contempt of court ruling issued by the trial judge – and seriously risked prejudicing the trials.
The footage of the defendants as they entered Leeds Crown Court in May was viewed 250,000 times.
Trial judge Geoffrey Marson QC said the order in place was to ensure the integrity of the case.
Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – was arrested and later jailed but released in August on appeal.
His case was referred to the attorney general last Tuesday.