They tried to break Lucy Connolly, but the decent people of Britain will never desert her

Telegraph

7 days ago

Yesterday, I spoke to Orla Minihane, mother of three teenagers and a Reform UK council candidate, who gave a magnificent, impromptu speech in Epping saying that the protesters were not 'far-Right', as the media and the authorities like to allege. It was a peaceful demonstration by normal British people who had had enough and were going to protect their kids come what may.
Addressing the issue at a press conference in London, Nigel Farage took the bold step of saying that immigration was to blame for the sharp rise in rapes and sexual assaults in the UK.
Orla, who has been trolled online as a 'Nazi Barbie' and a 'moronic fascist', was disgusted with Essex Police for escorting counter-protesters from Stand Up to Racism (far-Left agitators with placards apparently paid for by the Socialist Workers Party, as the media and authorities don't like to allege) to clash with concerned locals like her. 'If you were in Dover in these numbers, stopping hundreds breaking into our country every day, we wouldn't have this problem,' Orla told officers. One Epping single mother reported an incident involving a migrant to the police and an officer replied: 'Be careful what you say, you know what happened to Lucy Connolly.'
'Outrageous,' says my senior source in Essex Police, 'but a true reflection of the woke culture the chief constable (Ben-Julian Harrington) has spent so much time and money on. Officers aren't taught about free speech in relation to cases like Lucy Connolly's – all they know is hurt feelings.'
The tide is turning fast on that deluded, self-loathing culture, in no small part due to the scandal of Lucy Connolly. Just consider how things have changed:
'If that makes me racist so be it'
Lucy's defiant assertion of her right to criticise the UK's immigration policy is now echoed up and down the land, from pubs to dinner parties. Starmer's Stasi could silence people with the stigma of being racist or 'far-Right' a year ago, but the people have wised up to their tricks. The British will no longer be demonised for defending their women, their children and their culture against illegal migrants. Call us what you like, we are right and they are wrong.
Two-tier Keir
The UK has become a free-speech pariah with Lucy jailed for two-and-a-half years for a thought crime no one has ever linked to actual violence while a (now former) Labour MP Mike Amesbury, who admitted punching a constituent repeatedly, had his laughable 10-week prison sentence suspended within a few short days. Meanwhile, suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones, captured on video apparently calling for far-Right protesters to have their throats 'cut', only a few days after Lucy's tweet, has been out on bail; his case will not even be heard until later this month. What the hell? Little wonder the Connolly case has made astounded headlines around the world. Last week, Le Monde quoted me on the scandal, saying it had 'brought shame on the UK'. See also the Prime Minister's embarrassment as President Trump schooled him on the way to deal with illegal migrants. An ashen Starmer looks as itchily uncomfortable as a seven-year-old boy with worms. 'You better get your act together or you're not going to have Europe anymore,' Trump warned on his arrival. 'But you're allowing it to happen to your countries and you got to stop this horrible invasion that's happening to Europe. Immigration is killing Europe.' And so say all of Epping!
Misinformation
While ordinary protesters are accused of acting on and spreading 'misinformation', the state is already using (and abusing) the new Online Safety Act to censor public discontent with immigration while denying that posts have wrongly been taken down from X. In fact, since the new rules came into force last week, the platform has blocked users from viewing a clip of MP Katie Lam speaking about grooming gangs in the House of Commons until X has verified their age. So the state is not prepared to protect children against rape, but instead 'protects' adults from hearing about it.
At the weekend, The Telegraph revealed that an elite police unit will monitor social media for signs of 'anti-migrant sentiment'. That's the same state which used a superinjunction to hide from the British people the fact that it had smuggled in thousands of Afghans at a total cost believed to be around £7bn to the taxpayer. And some of those Afghans were Taliban who had fought against British troops, and are now occupying Army quarters next to squaddies' wives and kids. Surely, the most outrageous piece of 'misinformation' in our history. But apparently the real problem is with mothers and fathers who don't want their daughters hissed at and molested on the way to school.
'Take the treacherous government and politicians with them'
Lucy's contempt for politics is nigh on universal now. Successive governments are increasingly viewed as traitors to this country, having ushered in more immigration since 1997 than in all preceding centuries in our history combined. 'Diversity is our strength' rings hollow when foreign-born men are responsible for some 40 per cent of sexual crime against women in London. Opposition to immigration now stands at 75 per cent, which is why Reform UK, the party that is the most trusted opponent of immigration, is at 34 per cent in the polls.
I could go on, and on. It was truly appalling for Lucy Connolly to call for people to set fire to migrant hotels; even if it was a throwaway remark in the heat of the moment, no one could condone it. The burden of her tweet, however, has only gained salience over the past year. As Nigel Farage said, when he insisted that Lucy did not belong in jail: 'Millions of mothers at that moment in time were feeling exactly the same.' They were, and fathers too, and they will no longer keep quiet. The safety of their children may depend on it.
'Lucy will be a national hero when she gets out,' Orla Minihane told me, and that is why our Government fears her. One ordinary woman, a bereaved mother herself, enraged by the massacre of little girls, has acquired a talismanic force because she articulated the furious anguish of millions, and had to be punished for it.
What if Lucy Connolly were to run against Yvette Cooper at the next general election and the patriotic people of West Yorkshire chose to vote to protect British children and showed what they think of a Labour government that is allowing our country to be invaded so there is no Britain anymore? Don't rule it out. We know it now, don't we? This is our last stand.