A SPANISH influencer who once said the rule of fascist dictator General Franco was preferable to democracy has been banned from the UK ahead of a planned appearance at an event led by far-right extremist Tommy Robinson.
Ada Lluch, from Tortosa in Catalunya, is among seven ‘far-right agitators’ the UK government said it had barred from entering the country ahead of this weekend’s Unite the Kingdom rally in London.
Home secretary Shabhana Mahmood said she had cancelled or refused their electronic travel authorisations required to enter the UK because their presence would not be ‘conductive to the public good’.
At a reset speech on Monday, embattled prime minister Sir Keir Starmer slammed the rally as designed to ‘confront and intimidate this diverse city and this diverse country’.
“That is why this Labour government will block far-right agitators from travelling to Britain for that event. Because we will not allow people to come to the UK and spread hate on our streets,” he said.
Other activists banned from entering the UK for this weekend’s event including Lluch’s former partner Joey Mannarino, Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek and American far-right influencer Valentina Gomez, who threatened to defy the ban by travelling to the UK by small boat.
Robinson, a former leader of the English Defence League (EDL) whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – led last year’s nationalist rally, attended by an estimated 100,000 people.
Lluch, 26, also attended the rally, telling the crowd: “Aren’t you tired of waking up every single day with the news of yet another innocent woman or child who has been raped, assaulted, or even murdered?”
She added: “I stand before you as a daughter, a sister and, God willing, one day a mother. Please men, protect us!”
Responding to the ban on X, Lluch said: “Apparently I’m not conducive to the public good when they literally have paedophiles, rapists and murderers walking free in their country, but I am a threat to their safety.”
In December 2024, Lluch said: “Spain was better under Francisco Franco Bahamonde. And every person that lived under his leadership agrees with it.”
In other social media posts, she has called prime minister Pedro Sanchez a ‘psychopathic narcissist’ and legendary actor Javier Bardem ‘retarded’.
She was thrown off Spanish TV in October after making the false claim that 91 per cent of people arrested for theft in her native Catalunya were foreigners.
