Lucy Connolly spent a year in prison for making an intemperate tweet.
Over 12,000 Britons a year are arrested for their social media posts. The police visit countless more and warn them of their "non-crime hate speech."
Yet...the only people who get punished for their speech are, SURPRISE!, conservatives.
Kent Police have decided that no crime has been committed after Charlotte Hayes called for conservatives to be murdered: “Why is anyone condemning that. Kill them all. Kill them all.”
— Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 (@TPointUK) September 18, 2025
This is two-tier policing - leftists can now publicly call for our deaths with no… https://t.co/lMvTk4oyK7 pic.twitter.com/6KgrYfdBWm
This is two-tier policing - leftists can now publicly call for our deaths with no repercussions.
It started with Ricky Jones and now it’s spreading across the country.
Meanwhile Lucy Connolly was jailed for a tweet.
By now, it is a commonplace to point out that Great Britain has a two-tier legal system, both on violent crime and the execrable hate speech regime. Or, for that matter, on whether you can protest or even merely say things that can offend people.
Ricky Jones was filmed calling post-Southport protestors “disgusting Nazi fascists”, and told a mob of socialist demonstrators to cut all their throats and get rid of them all.”
— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) August 15, 2025
Somehow, a jury reached a not guilty verdict in under an hour.
Blatant two-tier justice.
The system… pic.twitter.com/YWpJdCVSE6
Migrants, and Labor Party members for that matter, can say anything they want without consequence. Migrant rapists are let off for sexual crimes because their culture permits or encourages them. Judges express sympathy for perpetrators of heinous crimes, including rape, because, after all, they can do such things in Pakistan.
Police officers in the UK force a volunteer to leave a public street for praying and holding a sign reading "Pregnant? Need help?"
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 18, 2023
She was standing OUTSIDE the "buffer zone" and was not within view of the abortion clinic.
The UK is lost. pic.twitter.com/IJptlZPaFz
Let's not even get into the "grooming gangs," where police essentially aided and abetted the serial rapists.
A Christian can be arrested for silently praying or reading the Bible on Speaker's Corner, but a leftist Member of Parliament or podcaster can literally incite people to murder, and the government shrugs. Diversity is our strength or something.
Islamic Republic of #UK:
— Aby 💎 (@Abyy_085) December 13, 2023
Man arrested for reading from the Bible. But Muslims are allowed to block high profile areas and pray en masse like outside Downing St.pic.twitter.com/aeYmrTau9D
It must be that they accept that murderous inclinations are part of their culture. Conservatives, after all, must be upright and civilized, but lefties are expected to be raving lunatics.
Isabel has been arrested again for praying silently outside an abortion clinic.
— Dane (@UltraDane) March 8, 2023
Listen to the words used:
"You've said you're engaging in prayer, which is the offense."
"Silent prayer."
"You were still engaging in prayer, which is the offense." pic.twitter.com/Sn2qzoHOBn
Police will escort people away for "offending" somebody, or even show up at their house and arrest them. But apparently they don't think that explicit calls to murder are "offensive."
Former University of Leeds student, @_ConnieShaw, wasn’t just removed from her committee position at Leeds Student Radio. She was faced with potential expulsion from the University of Leeds itself after she interviewed Graham Linehan.
— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) September 16, 2025
The Free Speech Union, with the help of an… pic.twitter.com/wnld9Q8joZ
It's bizarre. Both because in a rational world, offending somebody should not be a crime, and because the only people "protected" by such laws are Muslims and liberals.
This police inspector is painfully out of his depth. He cites legislation banning photographs of public buildings but doesn’t know what it is.
— Allison Pearson (@AllisonPearson) September 8, 2025
He says, “I find that hateful, offensive” when the man says he prefers the Union Jack to a Pride flag.
It’s just pitiful slogans. https://t.co/YFEWsB4bZY
These laws are all about shutting down the disfavored opinions, and everybody knows it. It's just that the political and social elite in Great Britain almost all agree that shutting down the speech of conservatives is good.
Don’t even bother with the story BBC, never mind calling it ‘petrifying’
— SEEN in Journalism (@JournalismSEEN) September 18, 2025
And hate crime is not in quotes - you’ve described this as a hate crime yourselves @BBCLeicester
‘Leicester salon's Pride flag torn down in 'petrifying' hate crime’ https://t.co/KgM3UB1pTw
Censorship culture is sweeping the West. There are Approved™ opinions and disapproved opinions. And woe be to you if you get on the wrong side of the political or cultural elite.
UPDATE:
Hard to believe:
I urge the US Secretary of State @SecRubio to intervene over this outrageous action by British police and hold Keir Starmer's socialist government to account over the shameful treatment of a US citizen. This is completely unacceptable in a nation that is America's closest ally. https://t.co/iGhfZ3i87m
— Nile Gardiner (@NileGardiner) September 18, 2025
Deborah Anderson, a mother of two, was visited at her home in June by an officer from Thames Valley Police. He told her someone had lodged a complaint about her social media posts. She told him she was an American citizen and a member of the Free Speech Union and he should be investigating burglaries and rapes, not hurty words on social media.
Chillingly, he told her he was there to get her to apologise to the person who was offended by her posts. If she refused, she’d be questioned down at the station.
What was Deborah’s supposed crime? The policeman didn’t tell her. Was it her passionate support of President Trump and the MAGA movement on her Facebook and X pages?
To make it worse, Deborah is in the midst of cancer treatment, including chemotherapy. She ought to be have been convalescing. Instead, she was harassed for her tweets.
The FSU took on her case and, as a result, the police have now dropped their investigation. But they still haven’t told Deborah which of her posts got her into trouble, claiming they’ve accidentally deleted the record of the complaint.
Thames Valley Police are responsible for guarding President Trump this week. What would he make of the fact that those same officers are visiting the homes of his supporters – including US citizens – and threatening them with arrest.
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