In reply to girlymonkey:
"Mr Batten has been bullish about Robinson’s appointment in television interviews, but in a Ukip Facebook video he admitted: “I do wonder if I made a wise decision, but I’ve asked him to do this for us and what he can bring to the table is access to a million Facebook followers.”"
Many of whom are Russian trolls. (If facebook is anything like twitter.)
"Separate research at the end of May from US-based Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Hamilton 68 dashboard – which tracks Russian Twitter bot trending patterns – found the hashtag #FreeTommy charting at number two, #TommyRobinson at number three and #FreeTommyRobinson at number four."
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tommy-robinson-free-tommy-twitter-data