“I have more in common with Tommy than most reporters,” Sweeney says. There’s also a good deal of nasty stuff about the lower classes. He jokes about shooting gay people and refers to someone as a “bloody woofter” - cockney rhyming slang for “poofter.” He informs Brown that the way “to piss off a Greek” is to “start speaking Turkish.” He says that since he has his dog with him, he can’t take a taxi home because “Asian cab drivers don’t like taking dogs.” (As Tommy points out to him: “You’re doing what your channel does, blaming an entire continent” when in fact it’s Islam that has a problem with dogs.) Sweeney confides that one of his heroes is former IRA terrorist Martin McGuinness. In the undercover footage, Sweeney comes out with all kinds of things that you know he’d never say on TV. Watching him do so is a delicious experience. Tommy pulls all this off with the skill of a master prosecutor. So it goes again and again: Tommy poses a question Sweeney answers it with a firm no Tommy then shows him an undercover clip that proves him a liar. Sweeney also asks Brown if there’s anything she doesn’t want him to ask her on-camera, and adds: “I’m not supposed to ask this.” Indeed, he pretty much writes her a script. If she covers those three points, Sweeney tells her, he guarantees they’ll be included in the final cut. Tommy then directs Sweeney’s attention to the big screen, where Sweeney can be seen in Brown’s undercover video spelling out to her in some detail the three points about Tommy that he’d like her to make during their on-camera interview. For instance, he asks Sweeney whether he’d ever tell any interviewee what to say about Tommy. Before Sweeney can start asking questions, Tommy, who has brought his own cameraman along, sets about interrogating Sweeney. After Brown has given Tommy the video, Tommy, whom Sweeney has been nagging for weeks to do an on-camera interview, agrees to sit down with him at a site of Tommy’s choosing - a room furnished, as it happens, with a big screen. What helps make Brown’s undercover footage so riveting is the way in which Panodrama presents it. Sweeney, who had promised a “definitive” takedown of Tommy, instead provided Tommy with a definitive portrait of the sleazy journalistic hack at work. In that footage, we see Brown meet Sweeney at a pub where, presumably in hopes of loosening her tongue, he plies her with various kinds of liquor, including champagne, gin, red wine, and brandy, for a total bar bill of £220, which he put on his BBC expense account. The undercover footage of Brown’s meeting with Sweeney forms the heart of Tommy’s hour-long exposé, Panodrama, which he premiered last Saturday on a huge screen to a huge crowd in front of the BBC’s Manchester headquarters. When Panorama reporter John Sweeney asked her to talk to him for what he promised would be a “definitive documentary” uncovering Tommy in all his “horribleness,” Brown got in touch with Tommy and agreed to wear a hidden camera when she met with Sweeney to discuss his plans. After their split, she was offered £5,000 by HNH to badmouth Tommy for a cover story, and had to contact a lawyer to prevent a major daily from falsely claiming she’d accused Tommy of sexual allegations. If anything the establishment is going to come back at me with all guns blazing so please sign up at for free so I can keep in contact with you when they eventually shut me down like the fascists that they are.The key to Tommy’s plan was Lucy Brown, a former employee whose job with him had ended in a shouting match. ■ Oh, and the BBC face of Panorama being casually racist and homophobic. ■ BBC Journalists giving zero shits about your hard-earned £150 licence fee and spending on midweek £220 champagne lunches. ■ BBC likening the working class to cannibals in the jungle whose vocabulary is limited to the words F*ck off. ■ BBC caught on camera suggesting they could edit and clip an argument I had with an ex-employee to portray a totally different angle and to quote John Sweeney on camera he could make it ‘a gender, a sexual thing against Tommy Robinson’. ■ BBC caught on camera telling an ex-employee the questions they would ask her in the interview and the answers that she needed to say for it to air (scripted fake interviews!) ■ (Hope not Hate) on set with the BBC, calling the shots and intimidating my ex-employees during the interview ■ Blackmailing my former employees to invent stories ■ Taxpayer-funded BBC working alongside a radical far-left organisation for Panorama to ‘take down Tommy Robinson’
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