Calvin Robinson at Christ Church, Harlesden, 2022
Calvin Robinson giving a salute, resembling a Nazi salute, at National Pro-Life summit in the U.S.
I first met Calvin Robinson when he was a by-election candidate in Kilburn back in 2016. Tall and lean, of mixed parentage and with a huge afro, he was not your typical Brent Conservative candidate. He did not win the by-election nor the Camden by-election that followed. His adherence to the Rightwing Henry Jackson Society should have been a warning.
He joined the Brent nest of rightwingers when he became a governor at Michaela School in Wembley, where Suella Braverman had been the founding Chair of Governors.
Robinson moved on from the Conservative Party to support the Brexit Party as a candidate in 2019 and in August lst year became the lead spokesperson for UKIP. He was dismissed from GB News in 2023 following his support for Dan Wootton who had been suspended over Laurence's controversial comments on Wootton's show.
Robinson was a Free Church of England deacon of Christ Church in Harlesden and then a priest in the Nordic Catholic Church. Moving to the U.S. he joined the Anglican Catholic Church until they defrocked him following the Nazi salute incident.
The Church said:
While we cannot say what was in Mr. Robinson’s heart when he did this, his action appears to have been an attempt to curry favor with certain elements of the American political right by provoking its opposition.
In a personal statement Robinson said:
My attempt at dry wit, in that typical British way, was not a joke at the expense of WWII, nor an admission of my membership in the Nationalist Socialist Party. That would be an incredibly ignorant and bad faith assumption to make. The responses are very telling, though. The people who understand, cheer – those who have eyes to see. The people who do not want to understand, reach for their pitchforks. They have found a new channel for their hated. They remain in my prayers; may the Lord soften their hearts.
Where Robinson will go now is anybody's guess but he will certainly not be avoiding the limelight. The publicity may well have brought him to the attention of one Donald Trump.
Watch this space.
