An update on this post from mid-May.

An analysis of racial hatred charges under the the Public Order Act (1986) shows that the attorney-general must personally approve any prosecutions under the charges. That means that Hermer personally greenlit the prosecution of Lucy Connolly for one tweet which led to a 31-month prison sentence… This was at the same time as the AGO refused to approve reviews of sentences handed out to a rapist, a paedophile, and terrorist fundraiser. They all received shorter sentences than Connolly.

I’m now going to add the following term as a tag to these posts as it seems we’re dealing with something in the State far beyond mere double standards, threats to civil liberties or a police state.

“Anarcho-tyranny” refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law, or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law.

Some hope for her, given this demonstration.

You can read the full story here and although it’s of a piece with the stories of many others arrested for what they said online the circumstances of this one are worse than most, The Punishment of Lucy Connolly:

Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care …. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it.’ After this rash and ugly tweet, she took the dog out for a walk, mulled it over and later deleted her message. But the post had been screenshotted, and soon she had been arrested for stirring up racial hatred.
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In October, the Northampton childminder and wife of a Tory councillor received 31 months behind bars

This at a time when violent criminals get a few months behind bars. And it’s not just the sentence but the followup by the authorities:

Connolly is being denied release on temporary licence, even while it’s granted to fellow inmates convicted of more serious crimes. A low risk to the community and a primary carer to her child, Lucy ought to be a prime candidate for this normal step in the rehabilitation process. But Lucy claims that a prison official told her probation officer she wouldn’t get let out with a tag ‘because of press and public perception’. 

That press coverage and “public perception” was down to the Police claims, the Labour government and especially the PM, Sir Keir Starmer, that a message had to be sent in the midst of the Southport riots following the stabbing of three little girls, by an Islamist – and that message was shut up, of which being denied bail was a crucial component:

After all, this was anything but normal practice. Lucy was not a danger to the community. She was certainly not going to offend again, utterly shocked by the experience and having in any case deleted her Twitter account. And this was a first offence by a respected childminder of good character.

But judges were refusing almost all bail applications connected to Southport, following explicit political direction from the top. Early in the disorder, a flinty-faced Sir Keir Starmer had told the nation: ‘The police will be making arrests. Individuals will be held on remand. Charges will follow. And convictions will follow.’
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Behind bars, struggling to speak to a solicitor and with a trial date potentially months away, Lucy became panicked and demoralised. ‘A guilty plea looked like the fastest way to put this nightmare behind her’, explains Pearson. She pleaded guilty in the knowledge she would get a discount on her sentence, expecting to be out by Christmas….he received only a perfunctory psychiatric evaluation, where she was not even asked about the loss of her child. After she expressed reasonable concerns about illegal immigration in a police interview, the CPS issued a misleading statement that Lucy ‘told officers she did not like immigrants’.

In fact no jury would have convicted Lucy for a single horrible tweet, as the article points out has happened with other cases. In one case the jury showed what they thought of such things by dismissing the charges after just 17 minutes of deliberation.

As always, read the whole thing.

Between such dismissals and small protests like the one above, plus the recent success of the Reform Party, primarily on the issue of immigration, leading to Starmer back-peddling a lot, to the point of parroting the concerns of those British people he’d condemned, there may be some hope for Britain to escape the fate of Nazi Germany and communist nations.

But there’s a long way to go yet.

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See also

Airstrip One Policing
Who’s More Stasi: Britain or Germany?
The Sound of Silence
The London Times Looks at Totalitarianism
Britain really is Airstrip One
Should The Government Issue a Travel Advisory for New Zealanders Travelling to Britain?
One Prime Minister. Two Standards. No Nation
America and Britain Joined by a Common Word: Stasi
Airstrip One Must Have Its NKVD