This felt inevitable: an interview with Allison Pearson given top billing in the Telegraph. Connolly suggests Starmer should relearn what freedom of speech means and "what the laws are in this country". I think he knows but Connolly/Pearson clearly don't. No lessons have been learned in prison.
What about another Leveson Enquiry that gets fulfilled and puts these nasty so called Journo's back in their box. They now think they can, do or say what they like even if not researched or fact checked. No wonder UK is such a mess!!
These days it has become acceptable to conduct interviews with people with criminal convictions, ignoring judicial verdicts.
It's only a matter of time before she stands as a Reform candidate
It sounds like JD Vance wrote her script for her. 🤮
Exactly that His version of freedom of speech comes with no responsibility
Is she advocating what she said is not a criminal offence?
She broke a law from 1986 and pleaded guilty. How is the PM involved?
They really dropped the ball with failing to act on Leveson. We now have 'journalists' who can say and spread whatever lies they want and face no consequences.
Yeap.
This 👍
Thought this would happen. Probably a full diary now?
I wonder why she pleaded guilty if she thought she was completely innocent 🤔
At this point I wouldn't line the bottom of a parakeet cage with the Telegraph.
Can you imagine what she says to the kids she childminds? I think she should be taken off the childminders register, she's a convicted criminal
Pretty sure she will be. However, she can now make a living selling her "story" to the right wing media.
She'll be standing as a Reform candidate at the earliest opportunity.
Think your right but she is utterly thick, being schooled in what to say?
You have to have a DBS and be inspected by Ofsted to be a childminder. She can't be one any more.
We all know this is tripe. The media should stop rallying to the right wing cause & trying to make out she's some kind of martyr. Ridiculous.
It might have broken your child, though.
Lucy Connolly is right. Her political crime was to advocate for human beings to be burnt to death.
She'll be on Strictly next year...
The GB News version of Masterchef
Newsnight too!
Question Time
yeah sat between Nige and Lionel Shriver
Don't give them ideas
Ask them if paedophiles should be able to roam around school gates expressing their 'freedom of speech' and they would rightly reel back in horror. It's never been about freedom of speech per se, rather, legitimising their racism, Islamophobia etc. They want to spout racism without accountability.
Bet she'll be popping up as a Reform plc candidate before long.
Attacks on the independence of the judiciary are one of the warning signs of growing fascism.
bsky.app/profile/dana...
Respectfully, I don't agree. The lesson that has been learnt is that #Connolly can now use her celebrity status to grift columns in the Daily Mail, Telegraph etc as to how she was a political prisoner. There'll probably be a book with a co-author such as an assistant editor at the Times.
She'll probably stand for Reform as well to make more money out of being a convicted criminal
I think Connolly has not learned her lesson if anything she feels victimised and is using this fatuous free speech argument to justify her actions. There is a huge difference between free speech and incitement to riot and incitement to Murder. She needs to learn the difference and quickly.
(She still has 60% of her sentence hanging over her!)
All the people saying she should not have been send to jail for "hurty words" are now upset because a labour councillor has not been sent to jail for using "hurty words" But then again when have the fash ever been consistent
Consistently fine tailoring. That’s what they do well. They might be fantasising about genocide or actually carrying it out *but*they do look damned smart doing it. Stylish cunts.
With this attitude I just hope her family have not given her her phone back.
She won't be working as a childminder again but a living now awaits her spouting her BS in the right wing media. This was inevitable.
If there is one thing Starmer is an expert on, it is the law. Connolly will get burned by all this attention eventually. Zero sympathy from me.
Rather inappropriate use of the word burned I feel, in this circumstance, though I understand your intended meaning of course. Not literal burning.
Connolly will be used by those RW voices for their own gain and won't care for her long term. Once she is no longer useful to them, she will be dropped and forgotten about.
RW only care about themselves and anyone rich willing to fund them. Poor crowd funders are just gullible.
Why on earth did she plead guilty then? If she was *found* guilty in a court of law she might have a reason to claim she's a victim of a miscarriage of justice.
She faced maximum 7 years for the (very serious) offence she was charged with. You get a discount for a guilty plea. I imagine her lawyers will have told her also that the evidence was overwhelming. I think she got off lightly, vile, disgusting person that she is.
Far worse is the American government is meeting with her, indicating that they approve of her incitement of violence. Dangerous violent times. Right wingers are not good for our safety.
Can we proscribe the right-wing media as terrorists because that's what they are these days?
On licence? 🤔
Back to jail for breach of her parole then.
Alison Pearson. I would never have guessed.
She said "break" instead of "rehabilitate".
She literally admitted guilt and considered playing the mental health card.
The court presumably knew and understood the laws of the country when they passed sentence.
"Connolly said she would be meeting members of Donald Trump's administration on Saturday."
Definitely feels like breaching parole terms right there.
"Journalism" of the worst sort. bsky.app/profile/snig...
Alison Pearson is a vile racist troll. Was she not arrested for inciting racial hatred?
Welcome to Fascist UK. Appalling waste of Police time. Those who oppose genocide are arrested. Corrupt politicians bought by Israel no action. Membership of Labour Friends of Israel no action #Israel #Gaza #WarCrimes #genocide #PalestineAction #Corruption
Woman recently convicted for breaking law, and her lackey journo 'pal', insist the ex-chief of public prosecutions and experienced lawyer, "doesn't know the laws of this country" If this isn't the perfect time for a 'legal fight to the death in a ring', there never will be one.
Connelly & Pearson seem to have overlooked the inconvenience of the former being freed "on licence" They're likely also pushing at the envelope of contempt of court but not being a lawyer etc...
It's not contempt of Court. The part of Connolly's legal process that led to her being tried and convicted is over and no-longer active. Therefore; she can whine to her heart's content about how unfair it all was, it's just not Contempt of Court.
You can always count on pearson to be on the wrong side of literally everything.
Telegraph- horrible ring wing drama rag mag..
We have an unbalanced press, owned and conducted by the establishment. Top billing in the Reformagraph - remind me what the size of their readership is? Why do the BBC, ITV, Sky News etc still go to the newspapers in search of their headlines?
Beacause the tv & radio journalists are too lazy to do any real work, its all about opinions and click bait dressed up as news.
Never forget what she wrote on X: "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the bastards for all I care ... if that makes me racist so be it."
Someone who pleaded guilty to an offence and ended up in prison lecturing the ex-DPP on “what the law is”. That newspaper, Pearson and anyone who buys into this nonsense, is mental
They are complicit in stoking fear and hatred. They are not journalists but hate mongers. How these so called journalists can look at themselves in the mirror is beyond me. You must be a Special type of ignorant or nasty to be able a to sprout stuff like it.
The Daily Telegraph ceased being a newspaper, many years ago. I'd cite Brexit 2016. This is further reinforced by the fact that they have the likes of Daniel Hannan, Allister Heath, David Frost and Camilla Tominey write for them. The Daily Telegraph is now a Reform adjacent clown show 🤡
‘Starmer should ‘relearn’ what the laws are in this country’ .. seriously 🤦🏻♂️ .. yeh maybe he should have a rethink and put her back in prison … she’s out on licence after all Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner not this despicable racist specimen who’s gonna profit for her crime Disgusting
TBF Mandela also pled guilty
Presumably, if Nelson Mandela had come here and claimed asylum she would have called for the place he was saying to be burned down.
Why is she so cross with Starmer when she chose to plead guilty to an offence created in Thatchers time knowing what the sentence, set under Johnson, could be. What a strange person. Still, she should be able to monetise her guilt so maybe it was worth it for her.
As I said in another related post, these right whingers blame Starmer because it's convenient for them. They don't let facts get in the way of their narrative.
“You can’t say anything these days - not even simple things like calling for people to be rounded up or burnt to death. Honestly, it’s political correctness gone mad…”
Pearson likely fantasises about doing a bit of bird, but squealed like a pig when the police actually came to her door.
At what point is freedom of speech ok for incitement of hatred? thus moving towards nationalistic fascism?! Funny how freedom of speech is used by these utter parasites to drive their dark narratives & ideologies. Real problems In the UK are not migrants but the same AHs being corrupt & fraudulent!
People hoped you'd learn something, you malicious c**t. Quite the contrary.
Grifter meets grifter. Always money to be made from criminal behaviour in the UK, it seems.
If she's confident she didn't break the law, maybe she should repeat what she tweeted and see if she gets recalled to jail to serve the remaining 60% of her sentence...
When these people get the fascism they crave, inciting riots will be a lot more severely punished even if inspired by the racist ideology of the regime.
She's just amplifying her awful bigotry. It'll always appeal to some but i don't think she'll come out of it very well. She's vile and people see that.
She plead guilty and I’m pretty sure she was convicted using legislation passed by the Thatcher government.
She’s going to milk this for all it is worth.
Nasty racist who admitted to being a nasty racist now complaining that nasty racists aren't, on the whole, tolerated. Inciting racial hatred is against the law, but she was a 'political prisoner'. Didn't learn any self awareness in prison.
She seems like such a nice lady 😂
STARMER WAS NEITHER PART OF THE POLICE TEAM THAT ARRESTED HER ON THE CPS THAT DECIDED TO PROSECUTE NOR THE JUDGETHAT SENTENCED HER. and if she believed she hadn't broken any law why did she plead guilty?
I wonder how this interview sits with the terms of her licence.
oh very good point I suspect they won't recall her over it though for fear of it being deemed ' political'. BUT what she now writes on social media might
Well she seems determined to be in the limelight.
like Yaxley Ten Names if she gets recalled to prison she will get more publicity and more money from selling her ' story'.
Yes, a sad state of affairs.
No dear you're a nasty cunt. You called for people to set hotels alight. You showed no empathy for the families of the murdered children, just like the rest of the scum rat people who wrecked southport, whilst it was left to the local people and other areas to clean it up.
Let’s be honest. This is what happens when you allow our mainstream media to be owned by overseas bad faith actors acting against the interests of our country. As far as I can tell, Starmer is doing NOTHING to protect our country from these influences. So on the Government’s head be it.
Well our PM plays his cards close to his chest. I'm inclined to keep the faith but feel anger at the psychological warfare waged upon us daily by the "overseas bad faith actors". But rage toward the Tories who sold the Country out for money & power & walked into top jobs. No accountability.
"What freedom is speech means". Speech comes out of your mouth. She didn't SAY anything. She published it online. It makes a difference. Speech is (usually) ephemeral. Published text is not. People have time to consider it and act upon it.
She's learnt nothing. Part of her license conditions should be a reeducation programme. If she refuses, she should serve the rest of her term inside.
Legally people can protest outside her house over this with placards saying Send Her Back. Problem is where she lives it is likely they supported what she said.
It isn't surprising that Pearson 'campaigned for her release'. Since she was visited by Essex Police last year she's got a bee in her bonnet about free speech and that's Starmer's fault as well according to her.
She is NOT a childminder. She is an EX childminder. It is unlikely she will ever be registered as a childminder ever again. That is of her own making.
She's likely to talk herself back into prison at this rate.
I mean I hoped prison might lead her to reflect on her actions given that she chose to plead guilty (presumably her choice not Starmer's), rather than break her. Seems not though.
At any point did anyone ask her in what way she felt that Starmer was involved in her case? Did he pass the law she was prosecuted under? No. Did he make her plead guilty? No. Did he set the sentencing guidelines? No. I honestly fail to see how he’s supposed to be implicated in this conspiracy.
Allison Pearson shames the profession of Journalism.
Fucking chuck her back in
The interview, and it's publication in the Telegraph, has also made it onto the BBC.
She should be very careful what she says according to @nazirafzal.bsky.social.
Can I just check when she served as DPP?
Every five year old knows the law on free speech it doesn’t include hate or incitement to violence Karen
I mean, post jail grifting; wife of t*ry councillor
Both deserve nothing other than scorn.
Alison Pearson writing bile inducing unsubstantiated prejudiced ‘opinions’ again.
Recall her back to prison now to complete the other 60% of her sentence!
Yes, you really Fucking are, Nigel.
Bigoted trash given a platform and allowed to paint herself as a victim. All of which has been enabled by an enthuaiastic media. Simply vile. This makes me frankly ashamed to be British. If Nasty Nige gets into Number 10, will the last person out of Britain turn out the lights, please.
Jesus will that floating piece of turd just bugger off and ...! What a horrible, horrible man. Meanwhile, that woman can easily be sent back into prison. And she should be. Been out 2 days and instantly slagging off the government for holding her to account.
Nobody should ever be sent to prison for slagging off the government. It's practically our duty as citizens to do so.
She's come out of prison having learned nothing about her incitement to hate behaviour during the riots. And she's started up again with the same thing, just termed slightly differently so she doesn't get banged up again. That's not right. She was not a political prisoner, she behaved appallingly.
She's a common criminal, most definitely not a political prisoner. Sending her to gaol for slagging off the government would make her one.
Is she his constituent?
If there's a bandwagon, Farage is never far behind. A supreme grifter; all front, no behind
It is absolutely no business of the US. We have the balance more or less right, I feel. The US is in no position to lecture us or anyone else on this issue!
Hopefully a journalist is doing some work to absolutely fucking ruin this racist bitch
They always were the #FarageRiots
Lucy Connolly really should reflect on her words.
I've been thinking that we too easily glossed over her inclusion of "the treacherous government and politicians" in her offending post.
Isn't it about time Farage was proscribed. William Joyce has competition.
Oh dear god. Monetised fake pseudo American victimhood.
Imagine what we will become if his lot are elected.
A colony of the US.
Yep
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As sure as shite follows pay.
Typical, he would rather talk about what she said in abstract than what she said *literally* and the context she said it in. Its a common trick at this point.
Didn't see that coming...said no one, ever.
It is either wrong to overtly incite murder, or it is not. The world is a nasty place, especially social media. Who is the audience? What kind of people read this stuff and think "oh yuss, what a good idea, me burn down hotel!"?
And TikTok yesterday announced they were getting rid of a load of moderators do things are going to be worse.
No, Lucy. People hoped prison would make you have a good hard look at yourself, to see how radicalised you’d become. Instead, you’ve learned nothing and, with help from your cynical right wing friends, you’re now grifting from your utterly bogus victimhood. That makes what you did even worse.
When a convict leaves prison early in #England are there strings attached? Or, rather, are there long pieces of elastic? 🇪🇺
Personally I think the next time she appears she’ll have gigantic plastic boobs. Those RW podcasts are *very* lucrative & she’ll be a millionaire soon (if she’s not already)
And a golden cross on chain around her neck.
100%
Let's hope the criminal record in and of itself will haunt her and prevent her from getting a decent job in her chosen career or any other for the rest of her life. PNC checks are a cheap and cheerful employment tool.
Judicial notes on the police investigation also reveal that she found the impact of her tweet funny (9) and understood the potential seriousness of it as she considered faking mental illness to evade punishment (10). She's no fucking accidental victim.
Is there any evidence that her sentence was disproportionate? Not asking for opinion here but was the sentence standard for this crime?
No, and yes.
Thank you
For those at the back: She pleaded guilty in a court of law. The Prime Minister has nothing to do with her poor choices in life. But the courts do and as such they acted. Could we now focus on genuine victims and not those whose wounds are self-inflicted?
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Top Legal Tip, pro bono: To avoid being imprisoned for inciting racial hatred, don't call for the burning down of asylum seekers hotels on a public platform.
Farage has now said that he would send asylum seekers back to their own countries no matter where they come from. Afghanistan? Sure, he will do a deal with the Talibans. And what will the Talibans do to asylum seekers who fled? Kill them. In a way, she has “won”
Depressing as it is, I agree. The argument used to be that the far right should be allowed to air their views so that they could be publicly challenged. As I suspected, there is zero challenge.
I heard she's due to have a meeting with some of Trump's administration, too. Such dark, sick times we live in.
I thought early release from prison was contingent on remorse.
No doubt being lined up for a position in Reform UK where she can continue to play the victim card
The next by-election!
And a gig on Kgbnews
The next Deform leader🤮
That ☝️
In other words say what you like so long as there’s money in it! What a despicable human being she is, eaten up inside by both hate and desire for £££.
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None of this fits well with her "red mist" claim. She's a nailed on racist. #FarageRiots
Her expressions of remorse at her trial appear not to have been genuine. Were there no conditions attached to her early release?
This 👆🏽
She’ll be bigger than Yaxley-Lennon. Britain’s answer to Laura Loomer.
Nelson Mandela she ain’t.
Connolly needs to learn that freedom of speech comes with responsibilities as well as rights & she went to prison for ignoring that basic reality. No-one has the right to reccomend thugs to go & burn people to death in their temporary home, Connolly included. A shameful episode being whitewashed.
Allison Pearson, eh? It’s great that they found somebody both objective and forensic in her approach.
The unbearable interviewing … err … the unbearable.
How did you plead Lucy? Sorry, what was that? Guilty?
I suspect this piece of shit racist got LOADS of confirmatory support all thru her time inside from the likes of Pearson .... possibly even filled her time negotiating a fee for her first interview post-release, the advance on her coming book..... a slot on GB News maybe
She will have been protected in jail like Little Tommy was.
The clear issue with her ridiculous assertion that she was a political prisoner is - courts are not run by the Govt. We have separate courts + judicial system and the Govt has NO influence over judges. She was imprisoned legitimately by the courts.She should visit real political prisoners in the US!
Ha Ha Ha
Freedom of Speech or admitting that you committed an incitement to violence by wanting people to be burnt to death? A real tough choice ? It never used to be.
Members of the Trump administration want to talk to her … Well imagine my surprise!
Deport her
Not a childminder and never will be again. How about "Northamptonshire racist".
I've just ready the Telegraph comments below this confected outrage. Makes me despair for my homeland that so many see this person's awful tweets as laudable and want that duplicitous charlatan Farage as potential PM.
Did she not plead guilty? 🤦♀️
Yes but it's Keir Starmer's fault that a Tory government passed a law in 1986 that stops her posting shit online. He arrested her, personally, and nobbled the judge. Obviously.
Pearson couldn’t lead a Labrador to a plate of sausages
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I haven’t yet heard anyone claiming yet that the lady didn’t *literally* mean ‘burn to death’ and you’d have to be a fool or a lefty to be so daft as to think that. Someone will.
She should be recalled to prison, until such time as she learns some fucking humility, the ridiculous imbecile that she is and as for Pearson, a ghoul of the highest order…
Humility? From a Tory? Good luck with that.
Rightwing martyrdom is like red cordial to 3-year-olds.
So well put 😂
No lessons learned at all. Send her back.
She pled Guilty, the mince-thick flap.
Once upon a time the Telegraph disdained the way liberal papers supported Clive Ponting for his imprisonment after he leaked civil service papers. I'm curious about whether this line is actually all that popular even with their remaining readership.
They don’t really have readers. The point of the paper is to create content for social media and the various ‘what the papers say’ programmes on mainstream media. This also drives the agenda/editorial of BBC news programmes. This is why although losing money huge sums are spent on ownership.👆👆👆
Also: can we check if there are any sympathisers who have simply got this Lucy mixed up with the other one, the nurse who went to prison? Never underestimate how blurry details can get amongst low-information consumers.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is push for a campaign "Lucy Letby is the innocent scapegoat for NHS incompetence" endorsed by at least one big name.
Letby has sort of been dragged into the race issue, it was pointed out to people protesting to save the kids didn't do anything when Letby was jailed and could not explain why. Suddenly then this magic new evidence appeared for David Davis MP and now people want her out.
All the Letby Truthers are also right-wing nut-jobs.
Hmm... Private Eye seemed inclined that way tho. If the expression wasn't irredeemably poisoned, you could say some people have "legitimate concerns" about the case.
Since when did Private Eye show any competence in handling complex medical stories? Maltin PR are presenting Letby's defence case, and people seem to love an evil doctor conspiracy yarn.
David Davis & Nadine Dorries are already behind that campaign. Both are notable for their level of intelligence and their diligence and learning.
"Childminder advises ex Director of Public Prosecutions on the law"! Dunning-Kruger could not envisage this level of ignorance!
Wasn't she imprisoned under a law introduced by Margaret Thatcher for an offence to which she pleaded guilty?
They say “led the campaign for her release” like Pearson actually has any effect on the release date. Which she didn’t. Connolly is a racist and a liar. Jailing her was unnecessary but it happened because of her own actions. She’s lying about it. Pearson is just the worst type of scum.
"Connolly is a racist and a liar." "Pearson is just the worst type of scum." So, a pretty much standard Telegraph interviewee / interviewer set-up then.
Soon she will be the " Mother Theresa " of Reform UK !
