All of these cases stink. Why would any Duty Solicitor advise their client to plead guilty knowing full well this was freedom of speech! Influence from the highest office absolutely. Hermer, Starmer most definitely, one phone call and it was set in stone. Those Duty Solicitors need naming and shaming and reporting to the Law Society for misconduct but first and foremost Hermer and Starmer need to go! Corruption at its best by two 'dangerous little weasels'!
Damn right Paul. This is the jackboot of Naziism or the knock on the door at 3am of the Stasi, exact same thing: the vicious, totalitarian actions of illegitimate governments. Illegitimate in the UK because recent governments have been elected on provable lies and laughable manifestos. The Tories were booted out for Boris's lies (Take Back Control of our Borders etc) and if there was an election tomorrow, Starmer and Labour would be in the dustbin of history; their agenda has been riddled with class hate, more unvetted immigration and destruction of the economy.
Spot on. I cannot believe Dunn especially went to jail. His pictures were 100% accurate. What is wrong with a picture of migrants on a beach and saying "coming to a town near you". It is the truth. How is that any different to saying immigration is bad because Asian immigrants (and in fact all immigrants overall) commit higher rates of crime than Brits. This is the truth and FOI requests have shown the evidence for this. Hotels all over the place are being filled with these people. So why can't we say it. Even if Reform wins the next election, how on earth do we purge the woke infected judiciary?! Hopefully the message at least will get out to everyone to plead not guilty and face a jury. Given that we even have a deluded mentally ill male judge who thinks he's a woman and is therefore unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, it's a safer bet facing a jury. What hellish times we live in.
You are so right Paul. None of the examples you cite merited a custodial sentence. Given however the comments by Sir Keir Starmer immediately following the Southport riots about ‘far right thugs’ and ‘the full force of the law’, it was inevitable that the judiciary would fall into line.
The subsequent Police report into the riots stated that there had been no coordinated ‘far right’ involvement at all. It was simply local people reacting to the horrific slaughter of innocent children. On that basis, perhaps Mr.Starmer should be serving time in prison for stoking division and hate speech?
Jamie Michaels, former Marine pleads ‘not guilty’ and cleared in 17 minutes. Remember this? Great example of not going with initial legal advice and waiting for ‘Free Speech Nation’ to advise.
But as a punishment for his impertinence in declining to plead guilty, they kept him jailed on remand, denied bail, for months - for which he, a proven innocent man, will receive not one penny in compensation nor even an apology. The Yookay State and its corrupt inJustice system stink.
One of the unforeseen outcomes of these cases is that each thought they would receive a lesser sentence and therefore pleaded guilty. No one will again plead guilty and will instead take their chances with a jury.
If a high-profile politician had posted what Mr Dunn had posted, they wouldn’t dare touch him. The Yookay law has become little more than a stick for the ruling left-neoliberal elite to beat and intimidate the native public with. This post-democratic post-Britain corporate-globalist anarcho-tyranny makes me sick. The CPS and much of the Judiciary needs flushing down the same giant toilet as the rest of our rotten, toxic institutions.
Gee, I wonder if they’ll come and arrest me now...?
And by the way, if anyone were to look up the relevant records from Hansard, I bet they’d find the responsible (sic) Minister for the legislation used to persecute these people firmly and repeatedly insisting that it would not ever never be used in THIS way, to stifle free expression, no, no, that would be the FURTHEST thing from their minds.
The social fabric of the Nation, evolved for centuries since the Civil Wars is being disintegrated for Authoritarian utopian experimentation. The only organising principle is hatred and contempt for the indigenous working class and the Nations traditions in general.
Re Lucy connelly, she should not even have been arrested, charged , nor advised to plead guilty .
We have been locking up people for hurty words for over a decade , I did tweet you a piece about a case involving someone who wore a t-shirt after two police officers were murdered (it was from a decade ago ) .
We do need a first amendment free speech protection, I remember one tory government promising a "British bill of rights " .
We must also be careful about how laws are interpreted when they are written by idiots , especially in the wake of assisted eugenics bill , the road to hell .......
The problem is both sides (politically) only support speech they agree with , if you do speak in dissent you are liable to be called disparaging names (as you know Paul) .
The houses of Parliament is the most powerful kindergarten on the planet.
So angry at reading this. That these people were sentenced to a total of roughly 6-1/2 years for words unwisely put out there is appalling. The cost! Our "too full" prisons?
I'm not surprised though. When the establishment, especially the judiciary seem only too ready to believe that there is a festering "Nazi' subculture among ordinary centrist and right wing, often working class people, you have to hang your head in despair. These people are the truly dangerous ones.
Exactly. I mean under ridiculous human rights legislation you could argue that going to jail affects your right to family life. Great, let's release everyone from jail. The sooner we ditch this legislation the better. And if we can have a few more net contributors to the EU doing a *exit , maybe they can finally ditch their woke agenda.
Another good piece, Paul. I would question the legal advice that these people received. Was it from 'duty' solicitors provided by the police? We're they impartial? I'm no legal eagle, but I could easily argue ambiguity in the wording of Mrs Connolly's post, more than enough to persuade a jury that it wasn't a clearcut statement. Had the lawyers been 'persuaded' (instructed?) to advise their appointed clients to plead guilty?
All of these cases stink. Why would any Duty Solicitor advise their client to plead guilty knowing full well this was freedom of speech! Influence from the highest office absolutely. Hermer, Starmer most definitely, one phone call and it was set in stone. Those Duty Solicitors need naming and shaming and reporting to the Law Society for misconduct but first and foremost Hermer and Starmer need to go! Corruption at its best by two 'dangerous little weasels'!
Apologies, I read your comment after posting mine, with very similar sentiment.
Damn right Paul. This is the jackboot of Naziism or the knock on the door at 3am of the Stasi, exact same thing: the vicious, totalitarian actions of illegitimate governments. Illegitimate in the UK because recent governments have been elected on provable lies and laughable manifestos. The Tories were booted out for Boris's lies (Take Back Control of our Borders etc) and if there was an election tomorrow, Starmer and Labour would be in the dustbin of history; their agenda has been riddled with class hate, more unvetted immigration and destruction of the economy.
Spot on. I cannot believe Dunn especially went to jail. His pictures were 100% accurate. What is wrong with a picture of migrants on a beach and saying "coming to a town near you". It is the truth. How is that any different to saying immigration is bad because Asian immigrants (and in fact all immigrants overall) commit higher rates of crime than Brits. This is the truth and FOI requests have shown the evidence for this. Hotels all over the place are being filled with these people. So why can't we say it. Even if Reform wins the next election, how on earth do we purge the woke infected judiciary?! Hopefully the message at least will get out to everyone to plead not guilty and face a jury. Given that we even have a deluded mentally ill male judge who thinks he's a woman and is therefore unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, it's a safer bet facing a jury. What hellish times we live in.
Did they all plead guilty? Surely if they had challenged these charges they would never have been locked up?
Good question. Surely there are some decent lawyers out there who don't still have wet dreams about socialism from their student days?
You are so right Paul. None of the examples you cite merited a custodial sentence. Given however the comments by Sir Keir Starmer immediately following the Southport riots about ‘far right thugs’ and ‘the full force of the law’, it was inevitable that the judiciary would fall into line.
The subsequent Police report into the riots stated that there had been no coordinated ‘far right’ involvement at all. It was simply local people reacting to the horrific slaughter of innocent children. On that basis, perhaps Mr.Starmer should be serving time in prison for stoking division and hate speech?
Jamie Michaels, former Marine pleads ‘not guilty’ and cleared in 17 minutes. Remember this? Great example of not going with initial legal advice and waiting for ‘Free Speech Nation’ to advise.
But as a punishment for his impertinence in declining to plead guilty, they kept him jailed on remand, denied bail, for months - for which he, a proven innocent man, will receive not one penny in compensation nor even an apology. The Yookay State and its corrupt inJustice system stink.
One of the unforeseen outcomes of these cases is that each thought they would receive a lesser sentence and therefore pleaded guilty. No one will again plead guilty and will instead take their chances with a jury.
Until they get rid of juries in these cases!
If a high-profile politician had posted what Mr Dunn had posted, they wouldn’t dare touch him. The Yookay law has become little more than a stick for the ruling left-neoliberal elite to beat and intimidate the native public with. This post-democratic post-Britain corporate-globalist anarcho-tyranny makes me sick. The CPS and much of the Judiciary needs flushing down the same giant toilet as the rest of our rotten, toxic institutions.
Gee, I wonder if they’ll come and arrest me now...?
And by the way, if anyone were to look up the relevant records from Hansard, I bet they’d find the responsible (sic) Minister for the legislation used to persecute these people firmly and repeatedly insisting that it would not ever never be used in THIS way, to stifle free expression, no, no, that would be the FURTHEST thing from their minds.
The social fabric of the Nation, evolved for centuries since the Civil Wars is being disintegrated for Authoritarian utopian experimentation. The only organising principle is hatred and contempt for the indigenous working class and the Nations traditions in general.
Hi 👋 Paul.
Well written as normal 👏 👍 👌
Re Lucy connelly, she should not even have been arrested, charged , nor advised to plead guilty .
We have been locking up people for hurty words for over a decade , I did tweet you a piece about a case involving someone who wore a t-shirt after two police officers were murdered (it was from a decade ago ) .
We do need a first amendment free speech protection, I remember one tory government promising a "British bill of rights " .
We must also be careful about how laws are interpreted when they are written by idiots , especially in the wake of assisted eugenics bill , the road to hell .......
The problem is both sides (politically) only support speech they agree with , if you do speak in dissent you are liable to be called disparaging names (as you know Paul) .
The houses of Parliament is the most powerful kindergarten on the planet.
All the best Paul and other readers 👍
Have a lovely day 😀
Arbitrary and arguably cruel and unusual so we are now clearly officially a tin pot banana non-republic…
So angry at reading this. That these people were sentenced to a total of roughly 6-1/2 years for words unwisely put out there is appalling. The cost! Our "too full" prisons?
I'm not surprised though. When the establishment, especially the judiciary seem only too ready to believe that there is a festering "Nazi' subculture among ordinary centrist and right wing, often working class people, you have to hang your head in despair. These people are the truly dangerous ones.
Great job Paul.
Perhaps if she had used a human rights lawyer she'd be out now or not in at all.
Exactly. I mean under ridiculous human rights legislation you could argue that going to jail affects your right to family life. Great, let's release everyone from jail. The sooner we ditch this legislation the better. And if we can have a few more net contributors to the EU doing a *exit , maybe they can finally ditch their woke agenda.
Another good piece, Paul. I would question the legal advice that these people received. Was it from 'duty' solicitors provided by the police? We're they impartial? I'm no legal eagle, but I could easily argue ambiguity in the wording of Mrs Connolly's post, more than enough to persuade a jury that it wasn't a clearcut statement. Had the lawyers been 'persuaded' (instructed?) to advise their appointed clients to plead guilty?
Union, silly me.