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Lucy Connolly
“The heartbroken husband of Lucy Connolly who was jailed for posting an online rant over the Southport murders has condemned her appeal being dismissed today as ‘shocking and unfair’ – saying his wife is ‘not a right-wing thug’.
Ray Connolly said: ‘My wife Lucy is a good person and not a racist’, adding: ‘Lucy got more time in jail for one tweet than some paedophiles and domestic abusers get.’
Connolly, who is locked up at HMP Drake Hall, Staffordshire, had claimed to the Appeal Court last week that she had no idea what she was admitting to when she pleading guilty to a charge of inciting racial hatred.“
“In a written judgment, Lord Justice Holroyde, said: ‘There is no arguable basis on which it could be said that the sentence imposed by the judge was manifestly excessive.”
[Daily Mail]
Pity that the husband plays the System/msm game by adopting their language, though.
I had thought that the Court of Appeal would probably cut the sentence, allowing for the release of the appellant not immediately, but within a few weeks.
I admit I was mistaken. I had underestimated the pressure on the Court (however obliquely, so be it) from the evil Labour Friends of Israel government of Starmer-stein, Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves etc.
As for the ridiculous dictum of Holroyde L.J., quoted above, what can one say? Imagine a Lord Justice of Appeal thinking that a sentence of over 2.5 years for having posted a brief comment on social media is just about right… Ludicrous.
It is too late now, of course, but I think that Lucy Connolly should not have pleaded guilty in the first place.
Looking at the words she used in her social media comment, and at the construction of the sentences, it certainly would have been arguable that the words used, and in the way they were used, and in the context of where they were posted, did not in fact amount to incitement at all.
I think that Lucy Connolly could certainly have taken her chances before a jury, particularly if most of the jury had been echt-English. Also, even had she been convicted after a jury trial, the hysteria of the summer of 2024 would by then have abated, and the sentence would probably have been far less harsh, in my view.
This case and sentence were surely both nakedly political. The unfortunate lady has been used as a kind of scapegoat and example by Starmer-stein and fake Labour. The aim was wider than merely to discourage “rioters” (protesters) in the long hot summer of 2024; it was to discourage social media and other online dissent generally, and into the future.
Politically, though, Starmer-stein has misread the room (again). The Lucy Connolly case will backfire on him.
Exactly (that last point), but of course Lucy Connolly pleaded guilty at first instance (for whatever reason), and so this appeal has been on sentence alone.
In fact, the Crown case was never tested at trial, because the defendant pleaded guilty.
Exactly. Which is one reason why Lucy Connolly should have pleaded Not Guilty. She might then have had, even had she been convicted, a good arguable appeal point.
I have to say that, if her original solicitor advised a guilty plea on the basis that she had no defence, she was probably badly advised.
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Ha. That is a very topical way of putting it…
No-one now is going to vote Con Party, for several reasons. First of all because it is now led, if such is the bon mot, by a Nigerian woman who has in the past called British workers “idlers“, and who, though born in London (her parents having come to London precisely for that purpose, to get her a British passport), was brought up in the alien surroundings of Nigeria and the USA. She only came back to her place of birth aged 16 or 17.
One might add that she is one more System MP whose CV looks better from a distance than it does close-up [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch].
Secondly, the Conservative Party is partly, one might argue mainly, to blame for the terrible state the UK is in, and is going towards. 14 years of Con Party misgovernment. As I predicted, of course, the fake Labour government of Starmer-stein is as bad, or worse (many think worse), but that does not mean that many voters want to turn back the clock to 2010, 2015, 2017, or 2019.
The only people likely to vote Con now are elderly people who have always voted Con and who do not really keep up with events political or societal; those, and/or the affluent and wealthy who think that they would pay less tax under a Con government. Starmer-Labour, though, is almost indistinguishable from the Con Party in that respect.
There is a floor to Con Party support. I myself would estimate that floor as being somewhere around 15% but, having said that, if it were to look that the Cons had very little support and were therefore in perceivedly “wasted vote” territory, then even that floor might fall through.
On the basis of the latest opinion poll, the Commons might consist of 346 Reform members, 145 Labour, 73 LibDem, 39 SNP, and 17 Cons.
Matt Goodwin is therefore not right to say that the Conservative Party is now in 4th place. In terms of likely Commons seats, they are in 5th place; the 2% UK vote of the SNP is concentrated in Scottish seats, i.e. only about an eighth of all UK seats. You see the result predicted: SNP 39, Cons 17. Terminal for the Con Party…
Further to the case of Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor
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So what about the Jewish/Zionist “5th column” in countries such as the UK, USA, France etc? Facilitators and defenders of war crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Flynn.
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Ian Robert Millard 
I want to drive a water truck.
https://x.com/DudespostingWs/status/1924657580691095711
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It is only one poll and within the margin of error but hopefully that poll will be the beginning of a trend. Who but an ultra-rich footballer, someone else with deep pockets or a old, rich granny with advanced senile dementia living in Christchurch
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who thinks Churchill is still Tory leader or who has not yet recognised their useless party stabbed their last semi-decent leader, Mrs Thatcher,
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Maggie was the last Tory leader who people could take seriously even if they violently disagreed with her. No party that thought Boris The Buffoon was a serious politician or was able to be PM and passed over the credible (if liberal globalist Jeremy Hunt) can be taken to be a serious party.
They should have chosen Robert Jenrick who does have something in the way of a coherent political philosophy which Kemi lacks. He is far from ideal but you can treat him far more seriously than her. So far all I have seen her talk about is ‘gender ideology’ and transexuals who form just 0.6% of the population. Gender ideology was effectively non-existent in this country until 2013 when Cameron stubbornly introduced gay ‘marriage’ which was the law in effect saying to society biological sex/gender was totally irrelevant hence doing that boosted gender ideology yet Kemi backs same-sex marriage wholeheartedly.
If the Conservative Party had not systematically dumped any real form of social conservatism overboard during Cameron’s term as leader they would not be in this mess.
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The Tory Party mishandled Brexit and gave us a botched globalist ‘Global Britain’ Brexit. The vote for Brexit was misinterpreted by them which, for many, was a vote AGAINST globalist values and open borders NOT for them.
I would not be surprised if the Liberal Democrats improve their share of the vote and perhaps move into second place. Put simply if you support Brexit you either vote for ‘Mr Brexit’s’ party ie Reform UK or a smaller pro-Brexit ‘Right-wing’ party or you vote for the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats or Greens.
Unlike with the ‘backdoor rejoiners’ of Labour one at least knows where one stands with the consistently anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats or Greens.
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John:
Yes. Brexit was never clearly defined. Most voters wanted, really, a closed border near-ethnostate, but the movers and shakers in and around the Con Party wanted, as you say, some kind of fantasy “libertarian” globalism.
That confusion has ruined what in essence was a good move, or could have been, i.e. to leave the EU *political* straitjacket. The other aspect of the EU, a kind of convenient economic/travel “Zollverein”, was liked by most people but had become a monster, allowing millions of non-Europeans to travel on to the UK and invade/settle here.
I see the only way forward for this country as being a loose alliance with the Russian Federation. Cheap or no-cost energy, and a guaranteed market for our goods and services, in return for British neutrality, withdrawal from NATO, and withdrawal from EU scheming.
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An EU, thanks to cretinous TRAITOR, Starmer, that will soon drag us into an unwinnable nuclear conflict with Russia thanks to EU expansionism to Eastern Europe and we will pay a heavy monetary cost for it as well as a human one.
What part of the simple phrase ‘Leave MEANS Leave’ does totally DISHONEST Starmer not understand? We do not want his so-called EU ‘reset’.
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Hopefully, and very soon, the patently DISHONEST Labour Party will pay a heavy political price for cosying-up to embittered Tory remainers/rejoiners such as Michael Heseltine and the European Movement with their so-called EU ‘reset’.
Far better to be honest Rejoiners like the Greens or Liberal Democrats as at least one can hold a debate with them over the merits of rejoining or not rather than this DISHONEST half-in/half-out lying agenda of tying us within the EU’s orbit and pretending we are still a sovereign, independent nation state that left the EU.
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Yes, about 15% of the vote is the Tory floor of support. I have seen only one poll putting them lower than that which was one of 14% during the illustrious term in office of a certain Liz Truss!
Now, we need to work on Labour and get them lower. 22% is still far too high for a party that is still crying over the result of 23rd June 2016 but which will not make an HONEST application to rejoin the EU so, instead, is intent on making sure all those lowly, naughty plebs who voted for it get punished with a botched, globalist, nonsensical ‘Brexit’ that only works for foreigners and not us.
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The Conservative Party needs to understand that being a liberal globalist party for the very wealthy is NOT the route to electoral success. To be frank though even if they were to wake-up to this fact and get rid of the legions of posh Lib Dems in their ranks eg Heseltine ect it is now probably too late to avert the end of the party.
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Would I be so unwise to suggest we may see a Reform UK versus Lib Dem fight at the next election, especially if the Lib Dems can manage to get a few decent by-election wins under their belt? Is Farage as PM and Ed Davey as Leader of the Opposition really as fanciful as it might seem to be?
That being said, one Lib Dem problem is the Greens are fishing in their voter pool to a certain extent.
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John:
The LibDems are the dustbin party, the easy “alternative”, which stands for nothing very much except re-entry to the EU.I cannot see them getting more than, at peak, 100 MPs. That, however, would have them on the cusp of being the second-largest party in the Commons. I doubt they will get across the line, though.
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For all of their faults at least they and the Greens are HONEST about their pro-EU rejoin convictions unlike Labour with their half-arsed, so-called EU ‘reset’ putting us back within the EU’s orbit where the EU gains at our expense.
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Starmer is an utterly vile and abhorrent, virulently anti-British, patently DISHONEST, gaslighting, TRAITOR with a personality by-pass who should be dealt with in the time honoured British fashion of being [REDACTED]. Until 1998, that was a possibility and the [REDACTED] penalty needs to be restored for that purpose if nothing else.
There is absolutely no reason he should not be [REDACTED].
https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Texas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Percival
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John:
Regret that, in the present circumstances of repression of free speech in the UK, I have seen fit to redact a few words from that comment.
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Who is going to be Home Secretary/Minister for mass repatriation of illegal migrants in PM Farage’s Cabinet? Lee ‘Hang Em High’ Anderson or Ann Widdecombe who is one of the very few Tories/former Tories I have any respect for.
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John:
I see no real chance that Reform will repatriate or remove most of the invaders. That refusal or inability may pave the way for social nationalism.
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There is no reason the legions of illegals can not be put on a plane and deported back to whence they came. That is moral and just they are clearly law breakers. Reform UK is mostly voted for with regard to the vital immigration question. They need to have a tougher immigration policy like that of the AfD party in Germany.
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Reform UK is quite weak on immigration. They need to be firmer like the AfD is. Farage also doesn’t say much if anything about the rising danger of Islamism in this country. One of the least discussed results of last year’s ‘election’ was that a couple of blatantly Islamist candidates won election as ‘Independents’. Our archaic rubbush of First Past The Post voting is a particularly dangerous electoral system to misuse in this way.
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If only ‘Sir’ (knighthoods should be scrapped since they give them out to any old undeserving stray nowadays) Keir Starmer of ‘Two Tier’ fame ( boy, has that nickname stuck!😂🤣🤣😂😃👍) had expired instead of Patrick O Flynn!
Then one could celebrate the termination of the viruently anti-British, globalist, personality free, treasonous bastard with no real mandate to be in power (66% of a pathetic 59% turnout voted AGAINST Labour) with a bottle or several of some decent English “Champagne’:
https://www.nyetimber.com
https://www.ridgeview.co.uk
https://www.gusbourne.com
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Or not caring about the execution of a particularly vile person on death row in the USA.
One such person was executed tonight in Texas. His crime was truly abhorrent, vile, wantonly vicious, extremely cruel and morally depraved in that he murdered a 76 year old grandmother by walking into a convenience store in order to steal some items and then proceeded to pour charcoal lighter fluid onto her and set her alight with a cigarette lighter.
She sadly died in hospital from extensive burns five days later.
The death penalty is supposed to be reserved for the ‘worst of the worst’ in Texas and the USA and it is hard to imagine that case does not fill the bill entirely.
The real obscenity of the death penalty in America is that the wheels of justice turn far too slowly in that convicted murderers are not executed far sooner. There should NOT be a field day for lawyers to play the system with endless appeals on behalf of their clients or a ‘death row phenomenom’. If you are going to have capital punishment then get it over with QUICKLY instead of keeping people on death row for decades. That is unnecessarily cruel to the condemmed and is physchologically tortuous for them. It also reduces any deterrent value from death penalty use.
As they say in the great state of Texas, ‘Do NOT Mess With Texas’:
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/20/texas-execution-2025-matthew-johnson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_people_executed_in_Texas
I agree wholeheartedly with the judicial committee of the Privy Council when they said a time limit of a maximum five years should not be exceeded before a condemmed person needs to be executed. If a death sentence can not be performed within that period you should commute the sentence to lifetime imprisonment. You do not mentally torture a death sentenced prisoner by having a death sentence hanging over them for endless years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection
https://tdcj.texas.gov/death_row
https://tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html
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When Farage becomes PM in 2029 and we have a proper government once again I hope Foreign Secretary Lee Anderson or Ann Widdecombe systematically dumps all of Starmer’s treasonous and pathatically cowardly and patently dishonest sell-outs to the EU. Any deals he has struck with them will become null and void once Farage is in No.10.
Why does Starmer not have the courage of his obvious pro rejoin convictions and apply for EU membership instead of giving us this crap, DISHONEST, half-in/half-out, so-called ‘reset’ of our relations?
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Under Starmer and Kemi, we get the worst of all worlds ie a half-arsed, botched, globalist, nonsensical ‘Global Britain’ bollocks ‘Brexit’ (STILL uncompleted thanks to NI being effectively in the EU still via the NI Protocol/Windsor Agreement).
The choice therefore is between a FULL Brexit overseen by a person who always believed in it ie Farage or a FULL Rejoin overseen by consistent anti-Brexit Ed Davey and the Liberal Democrats.
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PM Farage or PM Davey? What is it going to be?
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I see that the vile, semile dementia suffering, Michael Heseltine was in a good mood yesterday gloating about Starmer Stein’s disgusting, sneaky surrender to the EU.
Is he not dead yet? If only the anti-British weirdo would just kindly expire. He is a waste of oxygen. He has always been a vile, anti-British traitor and globalist cuckoo in the nest of the Conservative Party. After all, the snobby, poncy scumbag thought he was an intellectual superior to Enoch Powell. Someone with far more brains and certainly REAL patriotism than fake Lib Dem Heseltine. Also, he stabbed Thatcher in the back but his deviousness and low cunning in doing that was NOT rewarded with the Crown!
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Heseltine is a ancient political has been and it really is time he expired instead of wasting good oxygen on this earth. 90 plus years of wasting oxygen is enough. He should have been expelled from the Conservative Party decades ago along with all their other Liberal Party/Lib Dem entryists. Perhaps if they had been the party would not be at 16% in the opinion polls now.
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I am assuredly not a fan of Adolf. I prefer people like real Tory MP Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay of ‘Right Club’ fame (they do not make ‘Old Etonians’ like that anymore) and SIR (a well-deserved knighthood in his case as opposed to treacherous slimeball Starmer) Oswald Mosley but I have to say that quote from Hitler is a reasonable one which surely few could fundamentally disagree with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Maule_Ramsay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley
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The problem the Conservative Party has along with its policy free ‘leader’ at the moment is that it cannot get behind a new leader or present a coherent philosophy because half the party should not be members in the first place. Many and certainly a large number of their MPs are closet, dishonest, globalist Liberal Democrats who have been allowed to infiltrate the party.
Anti-British traitor, Heseltine, for example, should have been firmly told to sling his hook as long way back as the 1970’s and advised to join the Liberal Party where he belongs.
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Quite simply, the party is too much of a ‘broad church’. Jenrick was trying to put forward some basic principles the party could unite around. Those that disagree would have been politely told to join another party.
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To be a member of the Conservative Party it is surely not unreasonable to require the prospective member to have some basic notion of what conservatism is? Liberal Party/Liberal Dem infiltrators like Heseltine need not apply!
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I give them more credit than that. Whilst many Lib Dem ideals are wrong not all of them are. At least the Liberal Democrats do have some basic understanding of democratic values and a few civil liberties which is more than can be said for the Labour Party. Labour has always had the utmost contempt for democracy especially as far as we British are concerned. Starmer, in a long tradition of Labour leaders, crushes it internally within his own party so what chance do we mere mortals have?
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