I know I write a lot of posts about the United Kingdom, but it's just because I'm so disappointed to see what it's become, with its crackdown on free speech. You know, obviously, that the Democrats have January 6 in their deck of cards, and they play it often. They've forgotten about all of the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, in which cities were burned to the extent that Gov. Tim Walz's crazy wife said she left the windows open at home so she could smell the burning tires.
Well, the British government has its own January 6: the Southport riots. These riots stand out from all of the others because it was native white Britons burning the cars. These riots were in response to the stabbing deaths of three girls under the age of 10 and the wounding of several others at a Taylor Swift dance camp. The "far-right" spread the news that the attacker was a Muslim immigrant, which turned out to be false; he was a 17-year-old British citizen born to Rwandan parents.
The British government has used the riots to crack down on social media. London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatened to extradite and arrest Americans, in particular Elon Musk, who posted about the stabbing attack on social media. A judge went so far as to say that even curious observers of riots standing on the sidelines could be arrested and imprisoned.
Even though the killer wasn't a Muslim immigrant, native Britons have had enough of the unfettered migration of men from Muslim countries who have no intention of assimilating into the culture. As our own Grateful Calvin reported a couple of days ago, a 23-year-old father was arrested by police in the U.K. for singing, "I love bacon," outside the site of a proposed mosque. As Calvin reported, there's been an unofficial "Operation Raise the Colours" in which Britons are flying the Union Jack and the Cross of St. George, which a black studies professor said were racist and needed to be replaced with a new one that is more multicultural.
Also popping up around Britain are protests outside migrant hotels, like the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.
The reason I bring all of this up today is that a woman who was sentenced to 31 months in prison for a social media post that allegedly incited racial hatred. Lucy Connolly was released on Thursday after serving 40 percent of her sentence. The 42-year-old wife of a Tory councillor had called for people to "set fire" to hotels housing asylum seekers in the wake of the Southport attack in July 2024.
Keep in mind this was happening as the U.K. government was covering up rapes and grooming gangs, most composed of Pakistani migrants. The Times of London reported in January that council areas where British-Pakistani men raped young white girls had endorsed an Islamophobia definition that views the phrase “Asian grooming gangs” as racist and Islamophobic. Once again, Musk was chastised for posting about the grooming gangs, including by CNN, whose Jake Tapper reported, "Musk is taking aim at a staunch U.S. ally." Parliament voted against a national inquiry into grooming gangs in a 364-111 vote.
OK, that's a lot. What got me going was the early release of Connolly, who says she was a political prisoner of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. That inspired member of Parliament Torsten Bell to comment:
Utter garbage. She was a prisoner, nothing political about it. Reasonable people can disagree on any given sentence but the facts are clear:
— Torsten Bell (@TorstenBell) August 23, 2025
- she incited serious violence
- PM did exactly nothing
- she went to jail because of what SHE did: committing a crime + pleading guilty pic.twitter.com/H4U6bjVr3T
“PM did exactly nothing”
— Object Zero (@Object_Zero_) August 23, 2025
Here he is making a Prime Time TV appearance, the day of her arrest, to instruct police, CPS and courts to hold her on remand and speedrun her court date.
“nothing” !! pic.twitter.com/5tJrlxaN5u
She wrote a tweet out of anger that children were being killed by third world migrants. It was only seen by a handful of people and deleted it minutes later. Get a grip. https://t.co/YwHR2BOtRZ
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 23, 2025
You’re a certified 🤡
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) August 23, 2025
“For all I care” is not an incitement to violence.
— Mr Pål Christiansen (@TheNorskaPaul) August 23, 2025
You can do one - for all I care. . .😏 pic.twitter.com/d4ONCCWxgL
It's funny isn't it? Labour never listens to women, we know this from the issue of "transwomen" promoted by the party.
— Jacky Holyoake (@HolyoakeJ14576) August 23, 2025
Yet, all of a sudden, everyone apparently listened to this one woman and acted on her words.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
She was not convicted of inciting violence. She was conviction of inciting racial hatred.
— Left of Centre Brexit (@LeftBrexit) August 23, 2025
Convicted of "inciting racial hatred." As I said above, the Southport riots are the U.K.'s January 6, giving an excuse to arrest anyone on the "far-right." The one time a conservative rally gets out of hand, and it's worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined.
As I reported in a VIP post in July, The Telegraph reported that England was putting together "an elite team of police officers" to monitor social media for "anti-migrant sentiment" and "flag early signs of potential civil unrest."
I'm glad Connoly was released early, and yes, I agree that she was a political prisoner and an example to anyone else who might post anti-migrant sentiment online. Bell is an idiot.
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