What is the world coming to when you can’t even make up rumours about asylum seekers on Twitter and spark weeks of nationwide rioting?
It’s a Police State!
Lucy Connolly, from Northampton, was jailed for 31 months in October after calling for “mass deportation now” and urging her followers on X to “set fire” to hotels housing asylum seekers.
Sounds like she was inciting violence. Fuck her all the way to her jail cell.
“My wife has paid a very high price for making a mistake and today the court has shown her no mercy,” he added.
He went on to say that “the 284 days of separation” had been “very hard, particularly on our 12-year-old girl”.
Let’s weaponize our child for sympathy. Herp derp.
“My wife Lucy is a good person and not a racist. As a childminder she took care of small children of African and Asian heritage; they loved Lucy as she loved them.”
Oh, that’s awesome. But wait… Earlier in the article:
While calling for “mass deportations now”, the 41-year-old childminder wrote: “If that makes me racist, so be it.”
So which is it? These people are shitbags.
They are just entitled idiots who don’t live in the real world. She literally just tried to use the “but I’ve got black friends” defence.
It’s just baseline casual racism combined with the belief that things said online don’t really count. I doubt she would dare be that racist in person, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t racist, it just means she’s in denial. Maybe some court mandated counselling would have been in order.
Connolly’s husband lost his seat
Oh good
as Reform UK took control
Oh no
It is inevitable the conservators will lose seats to reform. The conservatives were seen as having failed to achieve the goal that the people who elected them wanted and reform were offering a new option.
In about 5 years though Reform will have also been seen to have failed, after all they have control of a few councils now so if they’re going to achieve anything it should be pretty apparent, I suspect that their votes share will go down.
While calling for “mass deportations now”, the 41-year-old childminder wrote: “If that makes me racist, so be it.”
- my totally not racist wife
Not even going for the plausible deniability lmao
Don’t worry she’ll have a lucrative career on the white supremacist lecture circuit when she’s released.
If anyone gets the chance to hear her Tory councillor husband speak, like if he’s on the news trying to defend her, I urge you to take it.
Last time he popped up on Sky I was shocked he could cope with basic tasks like staying upright and blinking his eyes, let alone representing his local area. It was like watching some mould give an interview. 😅
EDIT: Found him
Well that was a train wreck.
Interviewer: is your wife racist? Did she accept that that was a racist tweet?
Him: … … … … … Er… … … I’m not really sure
Fantastic orator.
I think I might have psychic powers because I could picture him exactly before opening the link
No tweed though 🤔
Good.
Inciting violence is a crime?? Literally 1984
Edit: Couldn’t they have taken into account that her husband is a VIP and given her a lesser sentence?
Edit 2: Has anyone thought about the poor children who won’t be being minded by this role model??
They did give her a lesser sentence.
Most people don’t have those thoughts in their head in the first place, and thus don’t have to control themselves from posting them at an emotional time.
Calling specific people to commit specific violent actions against specific targets is very much a crime. If it was just a vague “this thing was bad, I am sad” post, there wouldn’t have been a problem, even if one of her followers took it upon themselves to do something. But with her specifically saying exactly which buildings her followers should burn down, it’s a problem even if they don’t then do so.
With all that, I don’t know if your post was serious or sarcastic, so hopefully I’m not getting whooshed. But very much, this is not a role model. Her serving a short prison sentence for what she did will be a better behaviour model to her kids than her getting away with that would have been. And hopefully it will help her work towards being a role model in the future.
I was being sarcastic. I hope there is no one out there actually thinking those thoughts.
Was about to add Edit 3 where I worried about the “poor little white faces” of the kids she would have been minding but given how the rest of the joke has gone probably would have ended up being banned from lemmy.
Didn’t think I needed to add a /s to this but here you go
For what it’s worth, I upvoted you.
You da man
Nobody knows who you are. And nobody can read the words the way they sound in your head. So if you type exactly what someone that is wrong would type, with no indication that you are doing so ironically, how exactly are people to know that -you- would never say that unironically. There are people that would, and their post would look the exact same.
But the whole thing is totally absurd. If she’s a criminal then she can’t be a role model, who her husband is should have no bearing on sentencing, inciting violence is obviously a crime…
Lemmy is also one of the most progressive popular forums in political terms. How often do you see genuine gammons in the comments here?
If you want to play a person that would get downvoted, without indicating that you are doing so, you are then not in a position to be upset that you got downvoted. Acting irrational and defending the indefensible is a normal thing to encounter on the internet, unironically.
I guess I just don’t take social media very seriously. Sorry for polluting your feed with shitposting.
Have a nice day!
Oh, I wasn’t like being mad or anything. I was just trying to explain what was happening. I’m autistic, so not only have I already learned all these lessons the hard way, but I’m very familiar with being misunderstood and having to make extra effort to explain my jokes.
Edit: And with the most common way of browsing lemmy, especially as a new user, being to have it set to /all, there are actually alot of instances of a random person showing up with a super unpopular hot take on something they don’t know about.
Oh look, a lady nazi
Apologies for my would-be “appearancism” but have you seen the before and after photos of her? A bit of prison time and she now looks the part of a foaming-at-the-mouth gammon xenophobe doing time at Cell Block H.
