Page 10 | To think Lucy Connolly has been made an example of?

User32459 · 07/04/2025 09:02

KimberleyClark · 07/04/2025 08:57

Who’s for paying more tax to fund these things?

Thought not.

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We can pay 5 billion a year to keep illegal migrants in hotels.

Hobnobswantshernameback · 07/04/2025 09:02

Ooh look a one post wonder goady fucker OP
now there's a surprise

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 07/04/2025 09:03

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 06/04/2025 23:18

Oh okay, then i don't have any sympathy for her tbh but agree that the sentence is harsh

I'm unsure of the relationship between the pm and the sentencing guidelines for the riots, so I won't say more but when he was in charge of the cps during the 2011 riots, those sentences were silly

I feel like i read that he wants to introduce stronger punishments for peaceful protesting

He's the authoritarian that people claimed Jeremy corbyn was tbh

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He's a disgrace

FinishLast · 07/04/2025 09:04

MyZippyLemonBiscuit · 07/04/2025 08:39

it’s a shame that more people aren’t as outraged as she was, while I do agree the tweet was too far it’s not worth a jail sentence and she’s right about mass deportation. It would have prevented the likes of the Southport stabbings had that boy and his parents been deported at the first sign of trouble (the government knew he was looking into terrorism and so did his parents)

So much lack of understanding…deported to where?

Where do we deport our convicted British citizens to?

Is that all of our British criminals…or just some of them?

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 07/04/2025 09:11

SouthernFashionista · 06/04/2025 22:43

Have any of you read this article about Lucy Connolly who tweeted inflammatory comments following the Southport murders? I have to admit that at the time I was fully supportive of having her locked up, with the key thrown away. But reading this article made me view it all a little differently. Surely she has done her time?
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/04/lucy-connolly-southport-riots-axel-rudakubana-taylor-swift/

Oh dear, you’re quoting the Telegraph and Liz Truss 🤦‍♀️

Did you read what she tweeted? She was encouraging people to set fire to immigration hostels, she wanted to burn them to death. What is wrong with you that you think she shouldn’t face a hefty prison sentence for that?

TheCountofMountingCrispBags · 07/04/2025 09:12

It's incredible that people who think migrants are being waited on hand and foot in such hotels, and that they are lazing around in the 5* spa and swimming pools.
How thick do you have to be to think this is the case?

whippy1981 · 07/04/2025 09:14

Boredofbeinganadult · 07/04/2025 03:05

Let’s hope you never experience ptsd or trauma from your child dying that might trigger you to make an irrational and stupid mistake that you later regret.
Real criminals are being treated better than her, you’ve got some issues if you believe she deserves 30 months for a tweet.

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She was in full control. People do not lose control.

There are only real criminals of which she is one.

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 07/04/2025 09:14

maddening · 06/04/2025 23:03

I don't think anyone should go to prison for tweets.

She was inciting racial hatred and suggesting people should be burned to death in immigration hostels, that’s ok to you is it?

Hairyesterdaygonetoday · 07/04/2025 09:15

maddening · 06/04/2025 23:29

This is a discussion inviting opinions - I was not under any impression that what I think was becoming law. I do think that the punishment does not fit the crime.

Saying you don't care if they burn the hotels down is abhorrent - but relative to the punishments we see for crimes committed, i don't think this is proportionate.

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I agree. She posted a disgusting tweet, but that’s not what caused the anger and violence.

Also, thugs who commit real physical crimes, rape and other violence, especially against women, often get away with trivial sentences.

Men have got away with killing women by claiming it was just rough sex that went wrong. Stupid offensive words should not carry a heavier penalty.

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 07/04/2025 09:16

randomchap · 06/04/2025 23:21

So the Torygraph has come out in defence of the wife of a Tory councillor. That's in no way surprising.

“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f hotels full of the b* for all I care... If that makes me racist, so be it.”

There's no defence of that vile racist scum. She, and her supporters, can fuck right off.

Absolutely this. FAFO

whippy1981 · 07/04/2025 09:19

xanthomelana · 07/04/2025 07:53

So did the rapists and child abusers but yet they either don’t go to prison or get a lesser sentence. Surely you can see the problem here with our justice system.

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The reason is the quota. By all means link your campaign I'd be happy to sign it.

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 07/04/2025 09:20

Boredofbeinganadult · 07/04/2025 02:11

Don’t make me laugh 😂 Do you genuinely believe this woman deserves to go to prison for 30 months for a tweet she made and then deleted? Prisons are full, take Huw Edwards for example, he had 41 images at least of child rape on his phone of children aged between 7-9 and yet he got to walk away whilst this woman is actually serving a sentence. There isn’t room in prisons to lock people up over a tweet. I know who I would rather have in prison. If you think this woman should be in prison then you have issues.

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If you think what she said was ok then you have issues.

She was inciting racial hatred during riots and suggesting people be burned to death, what the heck is wrong with your morality?! You can bet all those scum who were jailed for this will be a bit more careful about the hatred they put out in the future.

Everysand · 07/04/2025 09:20

TENSsion · 07/04/2025 07:37

I’m waiting patiently for Ricky Jones’ trial.

So am I.

Gloriia · 07/04/2025 09:20

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 07/04/2025 09:14

She was inciting racial hatred and suggesting people should be burned to death in immigration hostels, that’s ok to you is it?

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No-one has said it was ok. The sentence was absolutely disproportionate.

CurlewKate · 07/04/2025 09:23

PeekabooRoots · 07/04/2025 08:49

Agreed. I wonder if any of Lucy’s critics have listened to the increasing number of Muslims with extreme views in this country who are calling for us all to be killed, humiliated, forcibly converted and our women raped? They have not been imprisoned.

Apparently the UK recently welcomed a hate preacher who has been banned from a huge number of countries for his jihadi activism. He was to carry out a speaking tour.

Speeches made to supportive groups and have the means and desire to act.

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Could you link to this guy, please?

Hoppinggreen · 07/04/2025 09:23

She hasn't "served her time" has she?
When her sentence is done then she will have
No sympathy whatsoever, there is freedom of speech and then there is hate speech/incitement

Alltheprettyseahorses · 07/04/2025 09:25

Mylegishangingoff · 07/04/2025 08:56

I agree. Are people forgetting how absolutely feral some people were at the time? People were terrified to go outside. I remember one poor woman filming herself for some kind of safety crying, scared for her life walking home from work. Mumsnet was unusable due to the sheer volume of racist posts that kept cropping up. As soon as a thread was deleted another would pop up. The sheer hatred that was spewing out of the racists across the UK was disgusting. I have no sympathy for 'middle class' racist white women who think they can get away with inciting hatred by 'playing the mental health card'.

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Just because a woman filmed herself crying doesn't mean she was actually in any danger. I had to be in Blackpool when there was a riot meant to be going on and it was fine - I saw the crowds from rather less of a distance than I'd have liked if things did kick off but nothing really happened and I felt totally safe.

I'd be more worried about the counter-protesters running round with machetes. Far less attention was paid to them or the mob that beat up a man. That councillor isn't very safe either imo.

Maitri108 · 07/04/2025 09:25

Gloriia · 07/04/2025 09:20

No-one has said it was ok. The sentence was absolutely disproportionate.

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She was sentenced according to the guidelines for the crime she pled guilty to. It should be 2-3 years. She only got to serve 40%.

WhenYouSayNothingAtAll · 07/04/2025 09:27

DancingLions · 07/04/2025 08:54

To be fair, a lot of the article was about her not getting HDC, released on a tag.
Having assessed many cases for HDC, I would say she is eligible. Regardless of how people feel about the initial sentence, she should receive the same treatment as everyone else. Refusing something she's eligible for, because of "public perception" or whatever words they want to use, is wrong. The decision to release her should be based on the same factors used in anyone else's case. That is the element that is "unfair".

That’s something I can agree with.

AnticleaAndLaertes · 07/04/2025 09:30

maddening · 06/04/2025 23:20

Did she tweet an address and did people actually follow her direction? As I understand it she deleted it pretty quickly and it wasn't viewed by loads of people and no evidence that anyone was actually incited to violence by her tweet.

There is a difference between what she did and directly arranging an attack imo

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If she tweeted an address and incitement, then she deserves exactly what she got

nomas · 07/04/2025 09:31

DancingLions · 07/04/2025 08:54

To be fair, a lot of the article was about her not getting HDC, released on a tag.
Having assessed many cases for HDC, I would say she is eligible. Regardless of how people feel about the initial sentence, she should receive the same treatment as everyone else. Refusing something she's eligible for, because of "public perception" or whatever words they want to use, is wrong. The decision to release her should be based on the same factors used in anyone else's case. That is the element that is "unfair".

But you haven’t assessed this case so you don’t all the details. And what she said was so heinous that she should be made an example of. She’s not alone in that.

Mylegishangingoff · 07/04/2025 09:34

Alltheprettyseahorses · 07/04/2025 09:25

Just because a woman filmed herself crying doesn't mean she was actually in any danger. I had to be in Blackpool when there was a riot meant to be going on and it was fine - I saw the crowds from rather less of a distance than I'd have liked if things did kick off but nothing really happened and I felt totally safe.

I'd be more worried about the counter-protesters running round with machetes. Far less attention was paid to them or the mob that beat up a man. That councillor isn't very safe either imo.

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Yeah, what a silly woman being scared. It's not like feral racists were roaming the streets trying to set fire to asylum centres with 100s of people inside or anything.

WhenYouSayNothingAtAll · 07/04/2025 09:35

nomas · 07/04/2025 09:31

But you haven’t assessed this case so you don’t all the details. And what she said was so heinous that she should be made an example of. She’s not alone in that.

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Actually no. The law shouldn’t be used that way. You don’t pick and choose which people should be made an example out of and arbitrarily deprive them of their rights (if they’re entitled to them) just because it serves an agenda and it appeases the “mob” (regardless of which side the mob is on).

Boredofbeinganadult · 07/04/2025 09:36

Walkden · 07/04/2025 06:52

"Let’s hope you never experience ptsd or trauma from your child dying that might trigger you to make an irrational and stupid mistake that you later regret.
Real criminals are being treated better than her,"

What is it with people excusing cuntish behaviour on mental illness? She saw a psychologist, and she is in prison not a mental health facility.

I've no doubt she sees the tweet as a mistake. She probably realised this the same evening which is why she deleted it.

But she is an adult and Is accountable for her "mistake". In this case, letting the mask slip and publicising her abhorrent views.

By the way she is also a "real criminal". She broke the laws of the land. Some of us may not agree with this law but must respect the will of the people who voted for the parties who introduced it and the Tories who could have repealed it but didn't.

So you think she should be taking up a prison space over an abuser or a paedophile or anyone else who commits serious crimes? what’s wrong with community service or a fine? Prison isn’t appropriate for a tweet

TENSsion · 07/04/2025 09:36

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/18803980.no-jail-rawtenstall-man-shouted-who-wants-die-waving-machete-kids/

He might have gone to prison if he’d tweeted it.

Man who shouted 'who wants to die' while brandishing machete at kids has avoided jail

A man who was filmed wielding a machete at a group of children while screaming 'who wants to die' has managed to avoid a spell in prison by 'the…

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/18803980.no-jail-rawtenstall-man-shouted-who-wants-die-waving-machete-kids/