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Comment by gzread

20 hours ago

What were the tweets?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po

> Lucy Connolly, 42, whose husband serves on Northampton Town Council, pleaded guilty in September after posting the expletive-ridden message on X the day three girls were stabbed to death in July 2024.

> She was released from HMP Peterborough earlier after she was handed a 31-month prison sentence in October at Birmingham Crown Court.

Like this one? I mean this is not some hard to find secret.

  • Missing a piece of that?

    >Connolly, from Northampton, called for "mass deportation now" and urged her followers on X to "set fire" to hotels housing asylum seekers.

    This is probably not considered protected speech in the US either

    • Lol there would be 40 million Americans in jail if this wasn't protected speech. Either way, doesn't matter I made this claim two ways:

      > the UK will put you in jail for tweets > people in the UK in jail for tweets deemed to be incitement to violence

      and there is no question whatsoever that what I said was true. Like it or hate it, I don't care, these are true statements.

I don't have examples of tweets handy, but here are stickers that get you 2 years in UK jail: They reportedly contained slogans such as “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066”, “Mass immigration is white genocide”, “intolerance is a virtue” and “they seek conquest not asylum.”

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-68448867 (does not quote a single sticker that he was jailed for)

https://www.gbnews.com/news/sam-melia-free-speech-activists-...