How many Tory MPs have spoken out against the disgustingly Far Left 'judge' or this case? What protests, marches, crowdfunding campaigns have Tory MPs organised? None as far as I can see, they are utterly useless. Contrast their pathetic inaction (on any major issues) with Rupert Lowe raising over £500,000 to organise an inquiry into Southport. The Tory party got Britain into every mess it's now in, Dad's Army was more focused.
I wrote to my waste of space Tory MP about the political prisoners a while back. The reply was patronising and evasive, essentially excusing what the government is doing. (But apart from Rupert Lowe, the same question could be asked of Reform MPs).
No problem with the use of solitary confinement as a form of psychological torture. No problem with jail (and later suicide) for merely shouting at police. No problem with two tier justice that favours far left activists.
No problem, as in Lucy Connolly's case, with coercing prisoners into guilty pleas by denying them bail and raising false hopes of leniency. But when the regime gets them in front of a judge without a jury, the punishment is savage. This is crucial - juries can not be relied upon to enforce the ideology of the regime so ways must be found to avoid juries - guilty pleas, contempt of court rulings, etc.
Reform have spoken up about this, so it's incorrect to say they don't care about this case.
According to the Telegraph:
Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK, said: “Lucy is the victim of two-tier justice because she is white and Sir Keir Starmer ordered the judiciary to impose stiff sentences last August. It is as simple as that. She should be released. Real criminals convicted of violent crimes are being let out while she is detained.”
But the characters in these much loved old sitcoms were decent and likeable, their hearts were in the right place. This is too generous a comparison for Tory and most Reform MPs.
And why has this not been raised in Parliament under Parliamentary privilege naming and shaming all involved from the judge to her legal team who advised her to plead guilty.
Plenty of time yesterday to discuss a couple of nobody agitators wanting to make a name for themselves
Also why have the FSU and celebrity barristers not pilled in to help her ( if they have not done already)
Dan Wootton has talked about her on his Substack when he spoke with the husband on his show. It all rather sad and gives an appalling side of Judiciary that with all the reasons why not to jail her, they did. It likely she will never throw off this experience and neither will the daughter seeing the persecution of a vulnerable woman/mother/wife in a vulnerable family due to the particular happenings, and now the husband/father ill. The mother was also denied leave at Christmas, - what is it that has the prison Governor so anti then and now? The Governor and Board would do well in Russia, more their mindset than suitable in Britain.
What possible good can it do to attack the political views of a judge unless your aim is to destroy the independence of the judiciary? By all means protest the case and the sentence. But I can only assume If you want to enforce your idea of political purity on all judges, then your aim is the end of any independent judiciary. Which of course chimes very well with the people across the Atlantic, much loved by Farage, who are currently trashing the world economy .
To use an expression, "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs".
Firstly, the UK charges tariffs on US imports. So do most other countries. Why is it wrong for the Americans to reciprocate?
The minor drop in the Dow Jones is miniscule to other drops over the years. Have a look at a graph of the past 5 years. It's up, up, up then a massive correction a couple of years ago (no panic), then up, up, up followed by a teensy weensy drop after Trump's tariffs. How is that "trashing the world economy"?
So you are saying panic on world markets, yawn, so what? That is real money and the collapse in world trade has real effects. Yes you could have got the world together and Trump could have negotiated but he prefers to bully and attack and smear and also lie. However you are saying it's nothing and I hope you are right but what I cannot understand is how anyone can defend Trump's ''might is right' stuff , as in " I am powerful and I will do anything I want , even invade your country and take your resources!" The complete abandonment of all morality. If you like that stuff, you must just love Hitler I guess, no pretence just grab.
Hold on a minute, surely the judiciary’s independence is compromised by a case like this, they’ve clearly come under political pressure to ‘make an example’ of this lady to act as a ‘warning’ to others! I think Starmer even said as much at the time…
Hypocrite - too many of our judges are already politicised and openly biased. The aim of people like Starmer to bring about the end of any independent judiciary has largely been achieved.
Utter nonsense. Try living in a real politicised and openly biased judiciary, where government opponents would be charged for some trumped up corruption and a phone call would guarantee a Guilty verdict. That is reality in some countries and if you want to 'vet' judges so they agree with you, then s you who will be creating such a dystopia. Is that what you want?
Yes, but there are shades of independence: at one end there are openly authoritarian states that clearly have a politicised judiciary (if at all), and the other, a totally independent judiciary (something we might have had in the past).
I would argue that our judiciary are moving along this spectrum, AWAY from being totally independent towards enforcing the establishment/elite consensus - an ‘activist judiciary’ shouldn’t really come as a surprise given the advance of woke through our institutions!
I too was moved by Allison Pearson’s article about Lucy’s plight. I am glad her case is getting a lot of coverage and hope she will be released very soon. One of the worst examples of a very worrying trend. I saw 1984 on stage a few months ago - full of chilling parallels. Thank goodness for the Free Speech Union.
It’s quite simple really. Lucy and people like her, speaking freely, wondering what on earth is happening to this country, represent a huge threat to the regime. If what they say is allowed to stand it might start a process of other members of the British majority waking up and speaking out. Can’t have that. Better absolutely crush her and make an example. Ensure others stay silent and we keep a lid on this boiling pot. Disgusting rapists and murderers don’t threaten the regime so light sentences for them. Let em out early to make room for the real threat to the regime. People like Lucy.
I think you have nailed it here. It is all about controlling and crushing dissent to protect the regime. Their worldview is paramount and no voices can be allowed to challenge it.
Isn’t it so ironic that free speech is always diminished under Labour, the original disruptor party? Of course they are in favour of free speech just not if you happen to be part of the indigenous, white sub population. Ricky Jones who wants to slit white people’s throats has still not had his case heard and been bailed from the moment of his arrest. Two tier Keir.
Fully agree with you. The other day, Margaret Hodge, another Fabian, was endorsing all the stupid socialist financial and (even worse) liberal cultural policies of this failing regime. This despite Margaret Hodge being a practicing Jew and telling the story how due to historical persecution, she keeps a suitcase by her door in case she has to leave quickly. And yet her Fabian socialist ideology trumps her cares for her safety and common sense.
Labour are just using the mechanisms the Tories put in place. The Tories were warned that an incoming Labour government would weaponise their speech and communications laws against conservatives but they were too blind to see it, or they just didn't care.
I would say it's because the Tory leadership are no longer conservatives, and haven't been for some time. They are 100% OK with locking up anyone challenging the ideology they share with the current apology for a real Labour Party, just as they also support mass uncontrolled immigration, net zero, etc.
Adding "...for all I care" is an expression of the speaker's feelings not an endorsement of what preceded it. "... waste your money for all I care" is not advocacy but giving up on someone impervious to advice.
Mrs Connally was not advocating arson but expressing her utter dismay at what had happened believing an immigrant had killed three little girls. There was no intent merely deeply felt despair over what had happened and which she saw as being allowed to happen by goverments through mass migration from people with hostile attitudes and values.
Just as with the guy who threatened to blow up Robin Hood airport, she was innocent. At least in that case, the guy had lawyers who understand the locutionary force of English utterances and they were able to convince a judge on appeal that there was no real intent, merely an expression of exasperation.
She should not have been advised and encouraged to plead guilty. Her lawyers acted as agents of the state in so doing. They are a disgrace.
Absolutely. The role of lawyers is core to this and has not been addressed at all. Why were all advised to plead guilty? Why were so many refused bail when other notable cases on the other political side were granted it?
Am sure complicit. Why? Because within weeks of his election the Judiciary changed. So fast and collectively that a memo or verbal, so no trace, must have been sent out from him. As he prev to MP been a boss in their system, it might have not needed much said to corrupt a centuries old system, ! 😡
The other which to me implies the above is that at same time the courts started letting of deportees who give ridiculous reasons for having to remain in U.K., - son doesn’t like chicken nuggets in home country, husband would find sun and weather temps too hot in her home country, ……
So then one should ask, why are the Judiciary, who of a system taken around and still used around the world as fair, prepared to have 1/ look excessive on likes of Lucy C. case and other similar plus TR when it was a civil matter not a crime this imprisonment now. 2/ look farcical re deportee reasons allowed to remain,,….. thereby as well as the farce some mean we retaining criminals so public finance of for ever, etc ??….
It should be kept in mind that these judges by continuing to change status quo of, - times to trial, by leaving out some of the protocols, political sentencing apparent, are setting a precedent that needs challenged by Lawyers of all rank that still have honour and integrity, - for the sake of their own respect by we the population AND the world.
An extremely perspicacious point, which should be a key point used in her appeal. In fact, “for all I care” is an expression of exasperation that is used almost in apposition to the preceding phrase.
If this case doesn’t illustrate the two tier system we now have in place, I don’t know what will. As for incitement to violence? What about the way Starmer incited the police and the justice system to come down hard on certain people for ‘hurty words’ but actual violence from other groups is routinely ignored and excused. Far from being a joke, this country is rapidly becoming a frightening place in which to live where we cannot trust our police or our judicial system to be fair and impartial.
Thanks Matt. I hope something can be done to help this poor woman. But let’s not forget the countless others being silenced through fear.
Thanks for this link Terfin. Reading this made me feel even more uncomfortable than I did already about this case and others like Julie Sweeney. I’m not a lawyer so would like someone who is to explain the difference between Lucy and Julie’s alleged incitement and Sir Keir Starmer’s incitement to the police and judiciary to stamp on understandably distraught people following the Southport massacre.
Recently in Bournemouth, a woman was arrested and later found guilty of a variety of charges for standing outside an abortion clinic holding a handwritten sign that read "Here to talk if you want." I am a feminist (the old fashioned sort) and I believe that in some circumstances abortion should be legal. But I cannot for the life of me see what is wrong with a Christian woman offering her support IF SOMEONE WANTS IT. How the hell can that be a criminal offence?
Yes, I agree and apparently she had had some success. Also there are some homes which are within those zones and the people who live there have been warned about praying in their own homes! I’ve honestly never seen this country in such a dire state. It’s terrifying. Orwell was right.
Well said, Matt. Now you're getting to the crux of the matter. You omit Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, however. The man who made a film (Silenced) about the actual events around the closure of a school and was told it could not be shown. His conscience would not let him be silenced and he was imprisoned and put into solitary confinement - because the authorities are afraid the people will discover the truth about them. Please watch it and other films (because I think you probably haven't) on YouTube and X and add your support to the millions of people (including Elon Musk) who are speaking up for Stephen. Better late than never.
The reality is, we are already in a civil War in this country.
All these incidents that are commented on in this article are the initial skirmishes .
We have no faith whatsoever in our political class they have failed completely and no longer represent the people of this country .
They have no idea what to do about illegal or legal immigration .
We’ve had five years with immigration and Covid where the lies have got more blatantly obvious and even people who in the past would never have believed they were being lied to are waking up to what is going on in this country.
You can only brainwash yourself with Love Island and football for so long before reality creeps in
I said the same thing yesterday to some ex work colleagues that we’re already in a civil war. Successive governments have refused to police our borders and a country without borders isn’t a country.
I think it’s fair to say that as far as speech goes, the British state is at war with the very people it is supposed to serve. 31 months for this is wholly disproportionate, it would be like calling in the Army during a school playground bust up. While I think Connolly should have paid some price for her tweet, which did advocate violence after all, she is serving a sentence comparable to some members of the rape gangs.
This is unacceptable and her case needs to be reviewed immediately.
Yes. It is what I called the Antagonistic State which is at war with the Nation (when I was writing Politics in Venezuela: ExplainingHugoChavez). So Britain now employs 3rd-world politics.
Couldn’t agree more. People make unwise comments in the heat of the moment and are punished severely whilst rapists and child porn offenders are let off with barely a rap on the knuckles. Words, apparently, are worse than deeds. Even thoughts are dangerous now. The Starmer regime is intent on suppressing dissent to their various ideological projects by any means necessary.
Her case brings so much grief and sorrow. I don’t understand how with so much public pressure, the government was not moved by only a small bit to release her or reconsider her sentence. It is truly a major free speech crisis. The country that pioneered free speech around the world, and tolerance towards ethnic and religious diversity, is now struggling to accommodate any opposition to the government. You are right,
It’s not just about this young mother. It’s about creating an atmosphere that suppresses any kind of dissent, making an example of her to other people, that if they wish to express opposition, this is what awaits them .
I think it remarkable that during and after the unrest that followed the Southport murders, not one Muslim posted anything sufficiently contentious to earn a place in prison. How very restrained and civilised.
And yet Nick Lowles, head of Hope Not Hide, spread a rumour that Muslim women were being attacked with acid, which brought the men out onto the streets, armed & looking for a fight. Has Lowles been banged up for incitement to violence?
Before Starmer was elected I forecast that he would introduce concentration camps for his enemies and I was right. Time and again citizens from the Right have been imprisoned, while those from the Left have been let-off with a slap on the wrist. The whole rotten Westminster swamp resembles the Soviet Union and Starmer is presiding over the Politburo which imprisons and threatens and intimidates the opposition. The Soviet Union had a colossal secret police surveillance operation to ensure that citizens were kept in line, and this is true of the UK, where the police are a tool of Government repression, sending six officers to arrest and intimidate a couple for daring to question the efficacy of their child's school. We are in a dangerous place.
Basically, the Left believes that invasion, mass murder and starvation under Stalin was good, but invasion, mass murder and starvation under Hitler was bad.
Under both Stalin and Hitler, the point about criminals is that so long as they targeted all the people Stalin and Hitler hated criminality was tolerated and in some cases encouraged - rent a mob. Two-tier justice. Starmer is a former Trotskyite turned human rights lawyer. It is clear he hates certain classes of people and he is very happy for them to be targeted by the criminal classes and police negotiating their tactics and targets with community leaders, ie., imams, makes clear at least one of their favoured groups.
I'm a member of the Free Speech Union. I donate to crowdfunders for publicized cases. I tell the people that I know, who aren't aware of what's happening (i.e. watch BBC news), about the death of free speech in the UK, amongst other things.
But, as we appear to now live in a totalitarian state, where the government, the police and the law courts have the power to crush any dissent from their accepted political and social narrative, we are powerless.
Please tell me/us what can we do. And I mean that genuinely.
How many Tory MPs have spoken out against the disgustingly Far Left 'judge' or this case? What protests, marches, crowdfunding campaigns have Tory MPs organised? None as far as I can see, they are utterly useless. Contrast their pathetic inaction (on any major issues) with Rupert Lowe raising over £500,000 to organise an inquiry into Southport. The Tory party got Britain into every mess it's now in, Dad's Army was more focused.
I wrote to my waste of space Tory MP about the political prisoners a while back. The reply was patronising and evasive, essentially excusing what the government is doing. (But apart from Rupert Lowe, the same question could be asked of Reform MPs).
No problem with the use of solitary confinement as a form of psychological torture. No problem with jail (and later suicide) for merely shouting at police. No problem with two tier justice that favours far left activists.
No problem, as in Lucy Connolly's case, with coercing prisoners into guilty pleas by denying them bail and raising false hopes of leniency. But when the regime gets them in front of a judge without a jury, the punishment is savage. This is crucial - juries can not be relied upon to enforce the ideology of the regime so ways must be found to avoid juries - guilty pleas, contempt of court rulings, etc.
Reform have spoken up about this, so it's incorrect to say they don't care about this case.
According to the Telegraph:
Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK, said: “Lucy is the victim of two-tier justice because she is white and Sir Keir Starmer ordered the judiciary to impose stiff sentences last August. It is as simple as that. She should be released. Real criminals convicted of violent crimes are being let out while she is detained.”
Steve
Thank you for that
So very true Badger - if the Tories are Dad's Army here, Reform are Trotters Independent Trading.
But the characters in these much loved old sitcoms were decent and likeable, their hearts were in the right place. This is too generous a comparison for Tory and most Reform MPs.
Absolutely
And why has this not been raised in Parliament under Parliamentary privilege naming and shaming all involved from the judge to her legal team who advised her to plead guilty.
Plenty of time yesterday to discuss a couple of nobody agitators wanting to make a name for themselves
Also why have the FSU and celebrity barristers not pilled in to help her ( if they have not done already)
Dan Wootton has talked about her on his Substack when he spoke with the husband on his show. It all rather sad and gives an appalling side of Judiciary that with all the reasons why not to jail her, they did. It likely she will never throw off this experience and neither will the daughter seeing the persecution of a vulnerable woman/mother/wife in a vulnerable family due to the particular happenings, and now the husband/father ill. The mother was also denied leave at Christmas, - what is it that has the prison Governor so anti then and now? The Governor and Board would do well in Russia, more their mindset than suitable in Britain.
The FSU is supporting her appeal.
Thank you Pamela
Good to know
Excellent
What possible good can it do to attack the political views of a judge unless your aim is to destroy the independence of the judiciary? By all means protest the case and the sentence. But I can only assume If you want to enforce your idea of political purity on all judges, then your aim is the end of any independent judiciary. Which of course chimes very well with the people across the Atlantic, much loved by Farage, who are currently trashing the world economy .
To use an expression, "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs".
Firstly, the UK charges tariffs on US imports. So do most other countries. Why is it wrong for the Americans to reciprocate?
The minor drop in the Dow Jones is miniscule to other drops over the years. Have a look at a graph of the past 5 years. It's up, up, up then a massive correction a couple of years ago (no panic), then up, up, up followed by a teensy weensy drop after Trump's tariffs. How is that "trashing the world economy"?
So you are saying panic on world markets, yawn, so what? That is real money and the collapse in world trade has real effects. Yes you could have got the world together and Trump could have negotiated but he prefers to bully and attack and smear and also lie. However you are saying it's nothing and I hope you are right but what I cannot understand is how anyone can defend Trump's ''might is right' stuff , as in " I am powerful and I will do anything I want , even invade your country and take your resources!" The complete abandonment of all morality. If you like that stuff, you must just love Hitler I guess, no pretence just grab.
Look at the 5 year Dow Jones index. There was a much, much bigger correction in 2022 and no-one batted an eyelid.
Hold on a minute, surely the judiciary’s independence is compromised by a case like this, they’ve clearly come under political pressure to ‘make an example’ of this lady to act as a ‘warning’ to others! I think Starmer even said as much at the time…
Hypocrite - too many of our judges are already politicised and openly biased. The aim of people like Starmer to bring about the end of any independent judiciary has largely been achieved.
Utter nonsense. Try living in a real politicised and openly biased judiciary, where government opponents would be charged for some trumped up corruption and a phone call would guarantee a Guilty verdict. That is reality in some countries and if you want to 'vet' judges so they agree with you, then s you who will be creating such a dystopia. Is that what you want?
Yes, but there are shades of independence: at one end there are openly authoritarian states that clearly have a politicised judiciary (if at all), and the other, a totally independent judiciary (something we might have had in the past).
I would argue that our judiciary are moving along this spectrum, AWAY from being totally independent towards enforcing the establishment/elite consensus - an ‘activist judiciary’ shouldn’t really come as a surprise given the advance of woke through our institutions!
I too was moved by Allison Pearson’s article about Lucy’s plight. I am glad her case is getting a lot of coverage and hope she will be released very soon. One of the worst examples of a very worrying trend. I saw 1984 on stage a few months ago - full of chilling parallels. Thank goodness for the Free Speech Union.
It’s quite simple really. Lucy and people like her, speaking freely, wondering what on earth is happening to this country, represent a huge threat to the regime. If what they say is allowed to stand it might start a process of other members of the British majority waking up and speaking out. Can’t have that. Better absolutely crush her and make an example. Ensure others stay silent and we keep a lid on this boiling pot. Disgusting rapists and murderers don’t threaten the regime so light sentences for them. Let em out early to make room for the real threat to the regime. People like Lucy.
I think you have nailed it here. It is all about controlling and crushing dissent to protect the regime. Their worldview is paramount and no voices can be allowed to challenge it.
Isn’t it so ironic that free speech is always diminished under Labour, the original disruptor party? Of course they are in favour of free speech just not if you happen to be part of the indigenous, white sub population. Ricky Jones who wants to slit white people’s throats has still not had his case heard and been bailed from the moment of his arrest. Two tier Keir.
Starmer is a classic Fabian socialist. The symbol of the Fabian Society is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
After decades of sheepish bleating about diversity and community cohesion, the wolf is now showing its fangs openly.
Fully agree with you. The other day, Margaret Hodge, another Fabian, was endorsing all the stupid socialist financial and (even worse) liberal cultural policies of this failing regime. This despite Margaret Hodge being a practicing Jew and telling the story how due to historical persecution, she keeps a suitcase by her door in case she has to leave quickly. And yet her Fabian socialist ideology trumps her cares for her safety and common sense.
Labour are just using the mechanisms the Tories put in place. The Tories were warned that an incoming Labour government would weaponise their speech and communications laws against conservatives but they were too blind to see it, or they just didn't care.
I would say it's because the Tory leadership are no longer conservatives, and haven't been for some time. They are 100% OK with locking up anyone challenging the ideology they share with the current apology for a real Labour Party, just as they also support mass uncontrolled immigration, net zero, etc.
Adding "...for all I care" is an expression of the speaker's feelings not an endorsement of what preceded it. "... waste your money for all I care" is not advocacy but giving up on someone impervious to advice.
Mrs Connally was not advocating arson but expressing her utter dismay at what had happened believing an immigrant had killed three little girls. There was no intent merely deeply felt despair over what had happened and which she saw as being allowed to happen by goverments through mass migration from people with hostile attitudes and values.
Just as with the guy who threatened to blow up Robin Hood airport, she was innocent. At least in that case, the guy had lawyers who understand the locutionary force of English utterances and they were able to convince a judge on appeal that there was no real intent, merely an expression of exasperation.
She should not have been advised and encouraged to plead guilty. Her lawyers acted as agents of the state in so doing. They are a disgrace.
Absolutely. The role of lawyers is core to this and has not been addressed at all. Why were all advised to plead guilty? Why were so many refused bail when other notable cases on the other political side were granted it?
Only one defendant refused to plead guilty. He was found not guilty.
And interestingly he was a (former?) prison officer and so perhaps had a better informed view of how the system is abused to harm innocent people.
Good points Stout, useless lawyers.
Useless or complicit?
Am sure complicit. Why? Because within weeks of his election the Judiciary changed. So fast and collectively that a memo or verbal, so no trace, must have been sent out from him. As he prev to MP been a boss in their system, it might have not needed much said to corrupt a centuries old system, ! 😡
The other which to me implies the above is that at same time the courts started letting of deportees who give ridiculous reasons for having to remain in U.K., - son doesn’t like chicken nuggets in home country, husband would find sun and weather temps too hot in her home country, ……
So then one should ask, why are the Judiciary, who of a system taken around and still used around the world as fair, prepared to have 1/ look excessive on likes of Lucy C. case and other similar plus TR when it was a civil matter not a crime this imprisonment now. 2/ look farcical re deportee reasons allowed to remain,,….. thereby as well as the farce some mean we retaining criminals so public finance of for ever, etc ??….
It should be kept in mind that these judges by continuing to change status quo of, - times to trial, by leaving out some of the protocols, political sentencing apparent, are setting a precedent that needs challenged by Lawyers of all rank that still have honour and integrity, - for the sake of their own respect by we the population AND the world.
An extremely perspicacious point, which should be a key point used in her appeal. In fact, “for all I care” is an expression of exasperation that is used almost in apposition to the preceding phrase.
If this case doesn’t illustrate the two tier system we now have in place, I don’t know what will. As for incitement to violence? What about the way Starmer incited the police and the justice system to come down hard on certain people for ‘hurty words’ but actual violence from other groups is routinely ignored and excused. Far from being a joke, this country is rapidly becoming a frightening place in which to live where we cannot trust our police or our judicial system to be fair and impartial.
Thanks Matt. I hope something can be done to help this poor woman. But let’s not forget the countless others being silenced through fear.
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/free-speech-the-story-of-lucy-connolly
Here’s the full article about her case plus further interesting information and discussion.
Thanks for this link Terfin. Reading this made me feel even more uncomfortable than I did already about this case and others like Julie Sweeney. I’m not a lawyer so would like someone who is to explain the difference between Lucy and Julie’s alleged incitement and Sir Keir Starmer’s incitement to the police and judiciary to stamp on understandably distraught people following the Southport massacre.
Sweeney is also a disturbing case
Exactly.
Great background detail, hard to read without becoming upset and angry.
Recently in Bournemouth, a woman was arrested and later found guilty of a variety of charges for standing outside an abortion clinic holding a handwritten sign that read "Here to talk if you want." I am a feminist (the old fashioned sort) and I believe that in some circumstances abortion should be legal. But I cannot for the life of me see what is wrong with a Christian woman offering her support IF SOMEONE WANTS IT. How the hell can that be a criminal offence?
Yes, I agree and apparently she had had some success. Also there are some homes which are within those zones and the people who live there have been warned about praying in their own homes! I’ve honestly never seen this country in such a dire state. It’s terrifying. Orwell was right.
We all know that our government is not there to serve we the people.
Well said, Matt. Now you're getting to the crux of the matter. You omit Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, however. The man who made a film (Silenced) about the actual events around the closure of a school and was told it could not be shown. His conscience would not let him be silenced and he was imprisoned and put into solitary confinement - because the authorities are afraid the people will discover the truth about them. Please watch it and other films (because I think you probably haven't) on YouTube and X and add your support to the millions of people (including Elon Musk) who are speaking up for Stephen. Better late than never.
The reality is, we are already in a civil War in this country.
All these incidents that are commented on in this article are the initial skirmishes .
We have no faith whatsoever in our political class they have failed completely and no longer represent the people of this country .
They have no idea what to do about illegal or legal immigration .
We’ve had five years with immigration and Covid where the lies have got more blatantly obvious and even people who in the past would never have believed they were being lied to are waking up to what is going on in this country.
You can only brainwash yourself with Love Island and football for so long before reality creeps in
I said the same thing yesterday to some ex work colleagues that we’re already in a civil war. Successive governments have refused to police our borders and a country without borders isn’t a country.
Spot on John
I think it’s fair to say that as far as speech goes, the British state is at war with the very people it is supposed to serve. 31 months for this is wholly disproportionate, it would be like calling in the Army during a school playground bust up. While I think Connolly should have paid some price for her tweet, which did advocate violence after all, she is serving a sentence comparable to some members of the rape gangs.
This is unacceptable and her case needs to be reviewed immediately.
Yes. It is what I called the Antagonistic State which is at war with the Nation (when I was writing Politics in Venezuela: ExplainingHugoChavez). So Britain now employs 3rd-world politics.
Couldn’t agree more. People make unwise comments in the heat of the moment and are punished severely whilst rapists and child porn offenders are let off with barely a rap on the knuckles. Words, apparently, are worse than deeds. Even thoughts are dangerous now. The Starmer regime is intent on suppressing dissent to their various ideological projects by any means necessary.
Her case brings so much grief and sorrow. I don’t understand how with so much public pressure, the government was not moved by only a small bit to release her or reconsider her sentence. It is truly a major free speech crisis. The country that pioneered free speech around the world, and tolerance towards ethnic and religious diversity, is now struggling to accommodate any opposition to the government. You are right,
It’s not just about this young mother. It’s about creating an atmosphere that suppresses any kind of dissent, making an example of her to other people, that if they wish to express opposition, this is what awaits them .
The government totally ignores the people which is why it hasn't reconsidered. It thinks it rules us, forgetting it only represents us.
I think it remarkable that during and after the unrest that followed the Southport murders, not one Muslim posted anything sufficiently contentious to earn a place in prison. How very restrained and civilised.
And yet Nick Lowles, head of Hope Not Hide, spread a rumour that Muslim women were being attacked with acid, which brought the men out onto the streets, armed & looking for a fight. Has Lowles been banged up for incitement to violence?
Before Starmer was elected I forecast that he would introduce concentration camps for his enemies and I was right. Time and again citizens from the Right have been imprisoned, while those from the Left have been let-off with a slap on the wrist. The whole rotten Westminster swamp resembles the Soviet Union and Starmer is presiding over the Politburo which imprisons and threatens and intimidates the opposition. The Soviet Union had a colossal secret police surveillance operation to ensure that citizens were kept in line, and this is true of the UK, where the police are a tool of Government repression, sending six officers to arrest and intimidate a couple for daring to question the efficacy of their child's school. We are in a dangerous place.
Starmer is a classic Fabian socialist. The symbol of the Fabian Society is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
After decades of sheepish bleating about diversity and community cohesion, the wolf is now showing its fangs openly.
If he is a Fabian, under the skin he is still a Trotskyite.
Basically, the Left believes that invasion, mass murder and starvation under Stalin was good, but invasion, mass murder and starvation under Hitler was bad.
Under both Stalin and Hitler, the point about criminals is that so long as they targeted all the people Stalin and Hitler hated criminality was tolerated and in some cases encouraged - rent a mob. Two-tier justice. Starmer is a former Trotskyite turned human rights lawyer. It is clear he hates certain classes of people and he is very happy for them to be targeted by the criminal classes and police negotiating their tactics and targets with community leaders, ie., imams, makes clear at least one of their favoured groups.
I'm a member of the Free Speech Union. I donate to crowdfunders for publicized cases. I tell the people that I know, who aren't aware of what's happening (i.e. watch BBC news), about the death of free speech in the UK, amongst other things.
But, as we appear to now live in a totalitarian state, where the government, the police and the law courts have the power to crush any dissent from their accepted political and social narrative, we are powerless.
Please tell me/us what can we do. And I mean that genuinely.
We must continue to speak out.
We live under a anti White regime now.