Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been branded "disingenuous" by FairCop founder Harry Miller, following the Labour leader's response to Lucy Connolly's appeal dismissal.The wife of former Tory Councillor Raymond Connolly had her 31-month sentence upheld by the court after being jailed in late 2024 over a social media post.FULL STORY HERE.
00:00Well, in the past hour, the Prime Minister has given his thoughts on the Lucy Connolly case.
00:05Let me give you the principles that I would apply.
00:08Firstly, I'm strongly in favour of free speech.
00:10We've had free speech in this country for a very, very long time, and we protect it fiercely.
00:16I'm equally, though, against incitement to violence against other people.
00:20That has long been an offence in our country, and rightly so.
00:25And so I say, I don't know the details of this case, but free speech, yes.
00:29Incitement to violence, no.
00:33I'm sorry, how can the Prime Minister not know the details of this case?
00:37He's the Prime Minister.
00:39Let's get the thoughts now with the founder of Faircop, Harry Miller.
00:42Harry, you no doubt listened in there to the Prime Minister, not aware of the details of this case.
00:47And I'm fiercely in favour of free speech, the Prime Minister said.
00:52Well, if it wasn't so serious, it'd be utterly laughable, wouldn't it, Martin?
00:55Of course he's aware of this case.
00:57He's the guy that instigated this case when he demonised everybody who had the temerity to be shocked and horrified by the murder of three young Taylor Swift fan children last summer.
01:12So that is entirely disingenuous.
01:14It's entirely dishonest.
01:15But this is what happens when you put a little man into a big job.
01:20And particularly a little man who simply does not have the pips to go into Europe and fight for the British people, as we've seen this week.
01:29And like all the little men, what he does, he turns his attention and his anger and his lack of self-worth and ability onto his own domestic people.
01:39In this case, a woman, the wife of a Tory councillor who simply expressed outrage, the outrage that was being expressed in every pub in the country,
01:50the outrage that was being expressed over every single dinner table.
01:54And what he did was he incited the police and he cited the judiciary to go after such people for having the temerity for speaking their mind.
02:09We do not have at the moment a judiciary.
02:12What we have is a judicial chumocracy led by Keir Starmer, who is leading his old buddies in the CPS and who are wearing the wig.
02:22And he is waging a war against ordinary men and women.
02:25This is absolutely despicable.
02:28Again, Harry Miller, of course, the prime minister would say that the judiciary is not political.
02:34He would say he had no direct oversight of the outcome of this particular case.
02:38He wouldn't even comment on the particular case here in the interest of balance here.
02:42But let's get back to the specifics about the appeal being rejected today.
02:49Raymond Connolly, of course, the husband of Lucy Connolly, said this.
02:53You cannot ignore the fact Lucy got more time in jail for one tweet than some paedophiles and domestic abusers get.
03:03He went on to say, I think the system wanted to make an example of Lucy.
03:06So other people would be scared to say things about immigration.
03:11Has he got a point?
03:13Yeah, absolutely. That's entirely what it's about.
03:15You can groom children.
03:17You can rob.
03:18You can do all sorts of things and get off with a slap wrist and a warning.
03:21But the second that you make a political statement, even if even a, you know, a quite extreme political statement like she did, like Lucy did, then you then then you incite the ire of this judicial chumocracy that we've got and Keir Starmer and the police.
03:39Now, what is the purpose of a custodial sentence?
03:42Well, the first purpose is to protect the public from the person.
03:46Well, do any of us really think that Lucy Connolly poses a danger to any of us?
03:52The second thing is so that they can learn and reflect.
03:56Well, Lucy learnt and reflected within four hours.
03:58She put up the post in a heated moment in anger and before the sun had set, she'd taken the post down.
04:05So I ask you again, what is the purpose of this custodial sentence?
04:10Well, it only has one purpose, and that is to demonstrate to the British public that they better not cross Keir Starmer.
04:17They better not cross the politics of this current Labour government, because if you do and if you go against the things which they love, which is Islam, mass immigration and all the rest of it, then you can expect to be investigated.
04:32You can expect to be shown no mercy, no leniency, no common sense whatsoever, and you can expect to serve your time in jail.
04:41That is an absolute travesty, Martin.
04:44Harry, let's just call, if we can, the tweet in question on screen to properly scrutinise what was said here, because the Prime Minister we just heard then said in no uncertain terms, he's fiercely in favour of free speech.
05:00You obviously disagree with that, but he said he's also not in favour of incitement.
05:05Do you think that this tweet here matches that burden of proof of incitement?
05:11Do you think it crosses that legal threshold?
05:15Well, let's ask this question. Was anybody incited by this tweet? I don't think they were.
05:19They've not made any connection at all. They can't show that anybody was incited to do anything by this particular tweet.
05:26The second thing is that Lucy took it down. She was angry, rightfully so, and given that the government refuses to point the blame where all of us know the blame shouldn't be pointed,
05:35she simply sounded off. She went for a walk, came back and thought, you know what, that probably wasn't the smartest thing I've ever said, and she took it down.
05:45It's as simple as that. Nobody was incited. She reflected. She took it down, and that should have been the end of the matter.
05:52Now, had the police simply gone round there and knocked on the door and said, Lucy, come on, we can't be saying that kind of thing,
05:57I would have had no argument with it whatsoever, but when they go round, arrest her, put her in front of a jury, or what have you,
06:05send her to jail for, what was it, 31 months, and then reject an appeal.
06:09She's a political prisoner, a straight-up political prisoner, and you can't believe anything that Keir Starmer says.
06:14When he says, I don't know anything about the details of this case, well, is he the only person in Britain who doesn't?
06:20Really? Of course he does. He's lying. It's as simple as that. Of course he knows.
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