I dare say you got that impression of him from the mainstream media, and to be fair I held a similar opinion of him until I watched a video of him at Oxford university giving his side of things.
Far from being the racist thug he has been portrayed as, he came across as an ordinary bloke who saw some very worrying things happening in his home town and tried to do something about it, he went to the council, the police, and even so far as the now P.M. who was the MP at the time and pointed out what was happening with Muslim extremists, all to no avail, but history proved him right (The 7-7 bombers and the attack in Sweden are just two linked directly to Luton mosque)
When he started the EDL it was inclusive of all creeds and colours including sikh and LGBT sections , never seen that in the papers, or that he had a constant battle to keep the far right out (They hate him as much as the lefties).
Now he works for Rebel media so whatever he does is on camera, a glaring example of what the media in this country pass off for the truth is when he covered a Britain first march, all the aggression was coming from one side yet despite him challenging the media to report it as it happened (And was on camera) the stories all ran things like "Trouble at a far right rally" with so many arrested, so many police hurt ect, without one pointing out it was the counter demonstrators attacking the police and throwing missiles.
The questions he`s asking are not being addressed by the mainstream media, why has no national paper asked why a serving councilor thought it proper to give a character reference to a child rapist ?, more important why is he still in the job ?.