FR"Sometimes you need to speak up for people you don’t necessarily like, even despise, in order to stop them becoming the key that allows the wolf to enter your house further down the road."
— Gareth Icke (@garethicke) May 21, 2025
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Hello and welcome to Gareth Icke Tonight. In the UK, this week, Lucy Connolly, the wife of a former Conservative Party councillor and the mother of young children, has lost her appeal against the two-and-a-half-year prison sentence she received... for a tweet! Lucy tweeted in the aftermath of the unspeakable horrors committed in Southport, where three young girls were murdered, and many others injured, by a demonic psychopath, at a kid's dance studio.
The fallout of the Southport attack led to riots on the streets of the UK, as mass unfiltered immigration, and the consecutive government's refusal to do anything about it, was blamed for the murderous actions of killer, Axel Rudakubana. Several arrests and absurdly long prison sentences were handed out in what felt like minutes. One of those sentenced has already taken his life in prison, by the way.
But Lucy Connolly was perhaps the most high-profiled of those locked up by the state. Her crime was a social media post that read as follows:
Mass deportations NOW! Set fire to all the effing hotels with all the bastards inside, for all I care. And while you're at it, take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will have to endure. If that makes me a racist, so be it.
Lucy Connolly
Now, Lucy states she knows what the families will now have to endure, having lost a child herself, fourteen years ago. She will certainly have more understanding of the grief than most people.
Now, was it a clever tweet? No.
Was it a nice compassionate and level-headed thing to post? No, of course not. It was unpleasant. It was ill-thought-out. But if you can sit there and say you've never said anything unpleasant and ill-thought-out, then I can sit here with absolute confidence and call you a liar.
It was deleted within three hours and a public apology issued, but no one wants apologies. They're not worth anything anymore because no one ever accepts them. The woke left saw to that years ago. And the woke right just, you know, followed suit.
But the main issue here isn't whether it's a nice thing to say or whether Lucy is indeed a nice person tweeting out of character. I don't know the lady. She could be a right nasty piece of work for all I know, but that sort of isn't the point.
If we're throwing nasty people in prison, the only people left free to walk the corridors of the Houses of Parliament, the Royal Palaces and, let's have it right, the Royal Courts of Justice, would be the cleaners!
Two and a half years in prison. Two and a half years away from her family for a social media post. A child without a mother for two and a half years for a social media post.
Now, you don't have to like Lucy or her opinions to find this yet another step on a very short and dangerous ladder towards tyranny.
If you can be imprisoned for tweeting something publicly, how long until you can be imprisoned for saying something privately or even imprisoned for thinking something that's deemed inappropriate?
The normalisation of prison for emotion-driven and later retracted words, and the precedent set by this kind of sentence ‒ and indeed imprisonment in general for what you write on social media, even if you delete and apologise for it ‒ has very dark implications for free speech and freedom of expression. Because it's Lucy Connolly now, but it might be you further down the line, because no one aligns with the state on everything. You simply don't.
Now, maybe your side is winning currently, which is why a Labour councillor, that urged for the throats to be cut of those protesting in the wake of the Southport murders, and was caught on video doing it, still isn't in prison while Lucy is. But winning sides can change and they can change in a heartbeat. So be careful what you wish for.
Sometimes,you need to speak up for people you don't necessarily like, even despise, in order to stop them being the key that allows the wolf to enter your house further down the road. Now Lucy is far from the only person being sent to jail for words, in the United Kingdom, and the court's refusal to reduce her sentence has again led to many accusing the Starmer government of ruling over a two-tiered justice system.
It's hard to argue with, when the judge who refused Lucy's appeal, Lord Justice Holroyde – another fellow in a fancy dress and a silly wig – does have form for reducing sentences. Now he deemed Lucy's appeal to have no arguable basis. However, he didn't seem to think that when he halved the sentence of a paedophile, in 2023.
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, a former Labour peer, was jailed for five years for trying to rape a young girl and sexually assaulting a boy under 11. Yet his sentence was halved by the same judge that thinks hurty words are worthy of an equal sentence to child abuse.
Now the fact it's Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, a grooming gang epicenter, is not lost on me. So whether you like Lucy or not, you can understand why people are finding this just a little bit off. Because who's the bigger danger to the people of Britain? Who would you rather have as a next-door neighbour? Someone that says bad things? Or someone that does bad things? I know whom I'd rather not have knocking on my door to borrow a pint of milk.
Many are of the opinion that Lucy's sentence is disproportionate so as to set an example to others, and there may well be some truth in that. But what if it's also about achieving the very opposite? What if it's about making people so angry and disillusioned with the state and the lack of justice that they take matters into their own hands in the future?
I've said repeatedly that they're more than happy to have people sat at home, watching their televisions, frightened to say a word or lift a finger. And they are more than happy to have people on the streets throwing rocks at coppers because, on one hand, they've already nullified the threat, and on the other, they can use that violence as an excuse to come down even harder on dissidents of the state.
We're in chaos season and it's time to be streetwise.
Transcribed by EY@EL
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