31 months.
Imagine being in prison for just one night—or eleven hours, as my previous guest, Maxie Allen, and his wife endured for sending private WhatsApp messages that mildly criticised his daughter's school.
How long could you last? Or let me reframe that - what would you pay; what would you do to avoid spending hours in a cell?
Let's get to the crime. Lucy - whose child died in horrific circumstances, who cares for a sick husband and who looks after children from a variety of backgrounds - became emotional following the news that Axel Rudakubana had stabbed multiple children, murdering three.
She tweeted:
Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f---ing hotels full of the b-----ds for all I care, while you're at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist, so be it.
Impulsive; emotional. Not very nice.
But does it make her a racist?
She doesn't appear to be one, given she has minded Nigerian, Somalian, Jamaican and Bangladeshi children, often joking that "it's like the blimmin' United Nations in here".
It is simply true today that immigration is the primary concern for many who considered themselves liberals in the 1990s. That includes many among us who initially signed up for the Diversity is Our Strength mantra while Tommy Robinson, Christopher Hitchens, et al. warned us of the perils of multiculturalism.
Recently released stats show that we weren't just imagining things.
We were - annoying term but appropriate - gaslit into believing that even raising concerns was racist. In today's society, racist is the worst thing a person can be called apart from a paedophile - although the fact that the former receive harsher sentences makes me question that assumption.
In the days following the chilling attack, Starmer and the elites hastened to quieten the dissent of those who suspected the murderer didn't fit the image evoked by their label of "Welsh choirboy". This only fuelled the fire - yet again, people felt like pawns in a game to increase political control over social media.
It's no coincidence that - just months later - Starmer twice referred to the fictional series Adolescence as a documentary that we should have an inquiry into - while failing to do so about the very real Muslim grooming gang scandal. It has not escaped attention that Adolescence replaced the black boy on whom it was based with a good-looking, intelligent white boy from a loving two-parent family.
To many, this feels like a direct attack on Western and British values and the nuclear family. Yes, it is a fiction, but the fact that politicians take it for a documentary shows how little they seem to know about the conditions that make criminals.
All of this predictably led to rage among the majority white population of the UK. Even so - even after all that Lucy Connolly had been through with the death of her child and how she might feel in the face of the stabbing of other kids - following a quick dog walk, she deleted her post.
Next came the chilling knock on the door. Police, prosecution and Judge Melbourne Inman - aware of Lucy's tragic past, her need to care for her husband and her work looking after children of diverse backgrounds - decided for political reasons to treat her particularly harshly.
Not only was she sentenced to 31 months, but she was denied bail before sentencing (absurd given she was a threat to nobody and had deleted her tweet before cops involved themselves) and refused the right to visit her home once a month (a right taken up by many criminals who commit far more egregious crimes).
This is grotesque.
But where is the Left?
This screenshot from Ground News shows which stories the Left and Right cover. For transparency, Ground News sponsors me with one-off payments on YouTube but does not commission me to mention them on Substack or a per-sign-up basis.
However, I use their website and this is relevant.
Look at those empty columns on the Left. Silence.
This led me to the single worst - the most selfish and typical of today's solipsistic Left - take on the Lucy Connolly saga. But be warned, this will make you angry:
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