Who Is Lucy Connolly?

You will recall that our erstwhile European allies went into the highest dudgeon when Vice President Vence called them out for  becoming more illiberal, that is, for sacrificing free speech on the altar of Islamophilia. These wondrously free countries were in the process of creating a two-tiered system of justice, where Muslim migrants were allowed to get away with whatever while white Europeans were prosecuted for the least harsh word about Islam.

Case in point, Lucy Connolly, currently incarcerated in once-Great Britain for having said something unnice about Muslims in the aftermath of a crime committed by a member of a Muslim migrant family. 

Matt Goodwin has the story on his Substack:

Who is Lucy Connolly, you might ask? She’s a young mother, she’s the wife of a sick husband, and she is, by all accounts, a respected and well-liked childminder.

But she is also a woman who, after the senseless murder of three little girls by the son of Rwandan migrants in Southport last summer, when emotions were running very high in the country, tweeted something very inflammatory.

As for the text itself, you can judge. She wrote this:

“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f---ing hotels full of the b-----ds for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it.”

Is it hard to read? Yes. Offensive? Sure. But does it justify what was then handed out to Lucy Connolly by our country’s justice system —a prison sentence of two years and seven months?

Yes, you read that right. Despite having never physically touched, abused, or hurt a single person, despite having never started a fire or thrown anything at a hotel housing asylum-seekers, Lucy Connolly, because of that tweet, was jailed for nearly three years. She was denied bail. She was urged to plead guilty. And she was sent to jail.

What does it mean? It makes clear what J. D. Vance was saying about the degradation of Europe. This is most especially true in once-Great Britain, ruled by the Labour Party.

This is what the Lucy Connolly case is really about. It’s not just about the absurd and frankly outrageous plight of one poor mother who said the wrong thing at the wrong time before almost instantly trying to take it back; it’s about how this case symbolises a much broader deterioration of free speech and liberty in this country.

A country that was once the home of free speech, free expression, and individual freedom is now rapidly morphing, before our very eyes, into a much more dogmatic, openly biased and controlling regime that is mainstreaming a stifling censorship, an increasingly activist and politicised two-tier justice system, and a society in which rising numbers of citizens, understandably, are concluding they should no longer speak freely and at ease around others. And I don’t know about you but this kind of country, where people feel their freedoms are steadily being stripped away, feels like a very fragile and dangerous place indeed.

Strangely enough, Goodwin does not mention that the Labour Party is in charge of this mess. Nor does he note that said Labour government has just dropped plans to investigate and prosecute grooming gangs of Pakistani men who have been preying on British high school girls.