This week I went on the BBC and argued that Lucy Connolly is a political prisoner. I must confess I was somewhat surprised to be asked to discuss this most hot button of issues on the Beeb, never known for giving airtime to narratives prominent on the populist Right. The programme was Anti-Social, an hour-long Radio 4 show which bills itself as “peace talks for the culture wars”, hosted by Adam Fleming. After Allison Pearson’s heartbreaking Telegraph exposé on Connolly’s plight went viral last week (the mother and childminder was imprisoned for 31 months for a tweet on the night of the Southport massacre) I was there to argue that she had been treated unfairly in yet another example of two-tier justice. Putting the opposing view was Chantelle Lunt, a criminologist, Labour councillor and founder of the Merseyside Alliance for Racial Equality. Two neutral professors of criminology also made some pre-recorded remarks about sentencing.
One of the interesting things about this debate is the fact it was happening on the BBC at all. After all, ever since Southport establishment voices have been insisting that the very idea of two-tier justice is a ‘myth’. Think of prickly Sir Mark Rowley, the Met commissioner, slapping away a reporter’s microphone when pressed on it during the unrest, or Sir Keir Starmer declaring that it is a “non-issue”. Yet clearly, even for our often head-in-the-sand media-political establishment, public anger about this issue is becoming difficult to ignore. In an internal Home Office report leaked earlier this year, officials felt moved to denounce “claims of ‘two-tier’ policing” as a “Right-wing extremist narrative” – while also lamenting it is now “leaking into mainstream debates”. Last month, Sir Andy Marsh, Chief Executive of the College of Policing, admitted that accusations of two-tier policing have become “almost impossible to defend against”. Just this week, a report by the Home Affairs Select Committee – seven out of 11 of whose members are Labour MPs, as I pointed out on the programme – had furiously denied that there was any two-tier policing in relation to the Southport riots. (A myth I hope I put to rest by noting that while the police rightly came out in force against mob violence outside asylum hotels and elsewhere, Muslim sectarian mobs were allowed to run around unpoliced in places like Birmingham, attacking pubs and passersby.)
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Well done Laurie Wastell for venturing into the Commentariat’s lair.
Coercive use of remand, online comment not causation beyond all reasonable doubt, inequality under rule of law – all nailed. State-sponsored perversion of the course of justice abounds.
Sir Two-Tier is a legal-weasel. The Kommissars Must Fall.
Well done Wastell (sorry don’t know your sex – please supply pronouns next time :)).
Sums up how they BBC view the world if they offered you “help” for hurty words afterwards.
Perhaps a rare example of someone at the BBC taking “balance” seriously – or perhaps a sign that they are trying to put this “two tier” thing to bed because they are worried.
If you watch any of excellent ‘The Sceptic’ podcasts you’ll have your answer on Laurie!
I have always assumed he was a she. Just checked and I was a little out. About a 100% actually.
Noted!
You’ve got your mother in a whirl
She’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl
Laurie was originally a male name, from “Lawrence”, Laurentius, Laurentum and the laurels of Victory.
It was only used as a female name more recently.
Ah thanks for that – this place is an education!
Yes, we all learn from each other, every day.
Laurie was originally a MALE NAME, derived from Lawrence, from Laurentius, which means “from Laurentum” in Italy, associated with “laurel” signifying “Victory”.
The use of the name for females came later.
“A laurel wreath, a round or horseshoe-shaped wreath made of connected laurel branches and leaves, is an ancient symbol of triumph in classical Western culture originating in Greek mythology, and is associated in some countries with academic or literary achievement.”
The introduction of the claim that people find Ms Letby ‘an unlikely villain’ because she is white isn’t supported by the identity of the serious professionals who gave their assessment of the evidence in the recent presentation arranged by David Davis, MP, and others.
It wouldn’t be at least as likely that people find Ms Letby an ‘unlikely villain’ because she was a nurse? Note that Chantelle didn’t say that people think that Ms Letby is innocent because she is white. The guilt of the Ms Letby is at issue. There is no dispute about the guilt of Ms Connolly. It is the sentencing that is at issue.
To introduce this assertion of the race of one woman as a determining factor in itself is to insinuate into the audience’s mind that the claims made concerning the sentencing of Ms Connolly are based on the same prejudice (rather than the differences in sentencing being a symptom of the administration of the system of governance of diversity that Ben Cobley describes).
I spent a lengthy online exchange with a woman of colour who was trying to insinuate that any sympathy for Ms Letby came from the fact that she is white. The lady considered that the arrest of the former nurse was polite. That is, she wasn’t thrust to the ground, foot on neck. Never mind that the police very publicly dug up her garden and arrested her three times. But to this lady of colour, the arrest as shown on the body camera footage was all demonstrative of white privilege.
“There is no dispute about the guilt of Ms Connolly.”
Oh yes there is. Guilty of what exactly? Exercising the supposed right to free speech ?
Lucy Connolly isn’t just a political prisoner.
She’s the Establishment’s Poster Child to the white working class what will happen to them if they dare protest about the policy of race replacement.
I predict she will be made to serve the entirety of her 31 month sentence.
As for Two-Tier-Keir ……. he’s routinely referred to just as Two-Tier: everyone knows who is being talked about.
He won’t be the Labour Leader when the next General Election is called. Labour is already weaponising the NHS against Reform …. and Streeting will be in No.10.
Well done to Laurie Wastell for defending Lucy Connolly!
His opponent was Marxist Harpy Chantelle (where do they get these made-up names?) Lunt, formerly of the Merseyside Black Lives Matter Alliance, which she then set up as the “Merseyside Alliance for Racial Equality”, known as “MARE”.
She is yet another Hypocritical Ethnic African guilty of racism by refusing to marry a fellow Ethnic African, holding out for a White Spouse and mixed race children, as a catapult to political power in the West, while continuing to whine about “racism”.
It is remarkable how many Third World Ethnics follow this pattern of scorning to marry their own, seeking an Ethnic European spouse to help them gain political power in the white countries where they choose to reside. There is a long list of them in the government.
As someone once said,
“They come here with one goal: to instal themselves and their offspring into the Ruling Class.”
In contrast, the great fighter Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) had this to say:
Muhammad Ali – Racial Integration
Priceless. Parky (who I quite admire) is floundering.
Yes, it was the most amazing interview, wasn’t it? There was Parky, smooth and confident of dominating the supposedly thick Ethnic African American fighter and showing off his Leftie credentials, suddenly thrown off-balance by the innate wisdom, courage and good-humoured honesty of Cassius Clay, who absolutely wiped the floor with Parkinson! Astonishing.
Hmm, double standards, much?
”Why is Lucy Connolly in prison when this grown man can walk around with this sign?”
https://x.com/NoShirleyNo/status/1913850762360242237
Says it all Mogs.
And to my limited knowledge no one has raised a placard threatening any mentally ill transgender person with such a fate.
And meanwhile, this:
EU to provide $11 million to highlight the contribution of the Qur’an and Islam to European civilization
“The study will cover the period between 1150 and 1850, when Islam had no influence on European civilization except as A CONSTANT EXISTENTIAL THREAT.”
“This is wasted money that will be spent on fantasy and provide evidence of nothing more than modern Europe’s capitulation.”
(article by Robert Spencer, founder of JihadWatch)
There is no doubt Lucy Conolly is a political prisoner and the judge in that case is controlled by Starmer’s political demands to punish people who speak out against such terrible crimes should be punished disproportionately as it might highlight the incompetence of our police and social services. Its unfortunate that Lucy Letby is mentioned in the context of that situation, although I believe she is innocent and paying a ridiculous price for being the scapegoat for the incompetence of senior doctors and hospital management who have not highlighted sufficiently or dealt with adequately the anti health and survival issues at that terribly managed hospital which at least one genuine expert (not the twat who gave evidence in court) on baby care said it should have been shut down.