By Ray Connolly, former Conservative councillor and without a doubt future Reform candidate
YOU know what it’s like, with the women. Raising children’s a full-time job but they need something to keep their little hands busy. For my wife it was inciting racial hatred.
Because childcare is hard, and you need something for yourself to keep your mind alive. Some women crochet. For others it’s making jewellery. But Lucy’s always been one to go her own way.
That’s why, when she was upset and angry about the tragedy in Southport, she indulged in what’s been a great comfort to her and fired off a tweet calling for mass deportation, the burning of migrant hotels and their occupants, and volunteering that she was a racist.
Did she regret the tweet? Yes. Did she delete the tweet? Yes. Had it been seen by 320,000 people as racist riots were sweeping the UK doing exactly as Lucy requested? Also, unfortunately, yes.
But, much as these are Lucy’s views, she fully supports them and she believes everyone in the whole nation agrees with her, she doesn’t really mean them. It was just something to do with her hands and her bigotry during an idle moment.
When the police arrived naturally she submitted to arrest without fuss. Surely they could see from our lovely home and skin hue that we’re decent, law-abiding people, with the minor exception of laws governing incitement to racial hatred.
Even when she was charged she only pleaded guilty to be polite much as one would take a canapé you find distasteful so as not to offend a host. We agreed she’d accept a suspended sentence as a badge of pride.
And now she’s in jail unfairly simply for having a little hobby. What next? Will Starmer lock up innocent women who make golliwogs and post them to black neighbours? To community organisations who set cheerful blazing crosses on lawns?
Lucy must be freed. To be back at home with her children, her family, and her prejudices. Where a woman should be.
