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Lucy Connolly appeal dismissal is a 'travesty', Harry Miller claims
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May 20, 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been branded "disingenuous" by FairCop founder Harry Miller, following the Labour leader's response to Lucy Connolly's appeal dismissal.The wife of former Tory Councillor Raymond Connolly had her 31-month sentence upheld by the court after being jailed in late 2024 over a social media post.FULL STORY HERE.
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Well, in the past hour, the Prime Minister has given his thoughts on the Lucy Connolly case
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Let me give you the principles that I would apply. Firstly, I'm strongly in favour of free speech
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We've had free speech in this country for a very, very long time and we protect it fiercely
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I'm equally, though, against incitement to violence against other people. That has long been an offence in our country and rightly so
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And so I say, don't know the details of this case, but free speech, yes. incitement to violence? No
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I'm sorry, how can the Prime Minister not know the details of this case
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He's the Prime Minister. Let's get the thoughts now of the founder of Faircop, Harry Miller
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Harry, you no doubt listened in there to the Prime Minister, not aware of the details of this case
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and I'm fiercely in favour of free speech, the Prime Minister said
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Well, if it wasn't so serious, it would be utterly laughable, wouldn't it, Martin? Of course he's aware of this case
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He's the guy that instigated this case when he demonised everybody who had the temerity to be shocked and horrified by the murder of three young Taylor Swift fan children last summer
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So that is entirely disingenuous. It's entirely dishonest. But this is what happens when you put a little man into a big job, and particularly a little man who simply does not have the pips to go into Europe and fight for the British people, as we've seen this week
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And like all the little men what he does he turns his attention and his anger and his lack of self and ability onto his own domestic people In this case a woman the wife of a Tory councillor who simply expressed outrage
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the outrage that was being expressed in every pub in the country
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the outrage that was being expressed over every single dinner table. And what he did was he incited the police and he cited the judiciary to go after such people for having the temerity for speaking their mind
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We do not have, at the moment, a judiciary. What we have is a judicial chumocracy led by Keir Starmer
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who is leading his old buddies in the CPS and who are wearing the wig
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and he is waging a war against ordinary men and women. This is absolutely despicable
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OK, now, Harry Miller, of course, the Prime Minister would say that the judiciary is not political
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He would say he had no direct oversight of the outcome of this particular case
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You wouldn't even comment on the particular case here in the interest of balance here
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But let's get back to the specifics about the appeal being rejected today
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Raymond Connolly, of course, the husband of Lucy Connolly, said this. You cannot ignore the fact Lucy got more time in jail for one tweet than some paedophiles and domestic abusers get
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He went on to say, I think the system wanted to make an example of Lucy
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so other people would be scared to say things about immigration Has he got a point Yeah absolutely That entirely what it about You can groom children you can rob you can do all sorts of things
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and get off with a slap wrist and a warning. But the second that you make a political statement
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even a quite extreme political statement like she did, like Lucy did
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Then you incite the ire of this judicial chumocracy that we've got and Keir Starmer and the police
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Now, what is the purpose of a custodial sentence? Well, the first purpose is to protect the public from the person
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Well, do any of us really think that Lucy Connolly poses a danger to any of us
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The second thing is so that they can learn and reflect. Well, Lucy learnt and reflected within four hours
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She put up the post in a heated moment in anger, and before the sun had set, she'd taken the post down
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So I ask you again, what is the purpose of this custodial sentence
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Well, it only has one purpose, and that is to demonstrate to the British public that they better not cross Keir Starmer
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They better not cross the politics of this current Labour government. Because if you do, and if you go against the things which they love, which is Islam, mass immigration and all the rest of it, then you can expect to be investigated
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You can expect to be shown no mercy, no leniency, no common sense whatsoever
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And you can expect to serve your time in jail. That is an absolute travesty Martin Harry let just call if we can the tweet in question on screen to properly scrutinise what was said here because the Prime Minister we just heard then said in no uncertain terms
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he's fiercely in favour of free speech. You obviously disagree with that
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but he said he's also not in favour of incitement. Do you think that this tweet here matches that burden of proof of incitement
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Do you think it crosses that legal threshold? Well, let's ask this question
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Was anybody incited by this tweet? I don't think they were. They've not made any connection at all
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They can't show that anybody was incited to do anything by this particular tweet
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The second thing is that Lucy took it down. She was angry, rightfully so
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and given that the government refuses to point the blame where all of us know the blame shouldn't be pointed
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she simply sounded off. She went for a walk, came back and thought
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you know what, that probably wasn't the smartest thing I've ever said, and she took it down
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It's as simple as that. Nobody was incited, she reflected, she took it down, and that should have
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been the end of the matter. Now, had the police simply gone round there and knocked on the door
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and said, Lucy, come on, we can't be saying that kind of thing, I would have had no argument with
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it whatsoever. But when they go round, arrest her, put her in front of a jury, or what have you
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send her to jail for, what was it, 31 months, and then reject an appeal
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She's a political prisoner, a straight-up political prisoner. And you can't believe anything that Keir Starmer says
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When he says, I don't know anything about the details of this case, well, is he the only person in Britain who doesn't
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Really? Of course he does. He's lying. It's as simple as that. Of course he knows
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