On 2025-09-15 3:27 p.m., The Horny Goat wrote:

On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:51:22 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

And a LOT of people said Keir Starmer's comments influenced the
judge's unexpectedly harsh sentence.

Is there any equivalent to the pardon power in Britain? Because that's a case
where I'd give her a full pardon and send her home.

I assume so - the Canadian and British criminal justice systems are
pretty much identical though Starmer is pretty much going to throw the
book at anything he considers anti-immigrant and in particular
anti-Muslim since he needs their votes to get re-elected.

He's even considering dropping the voting age from 18 -> 16 as he
figures he's likely to win the youth vote.

Given the above Lucy Connolly (the woman who was jailed for nearly a
year for a nasty tweet she removed within 3 hrs) is unlikely to be
expecting a pardon from Starmer though both the Conservatives and
Reform have said her case was a prosecutorial travesty.

I saw a segment about her just yesterday which shows that they are still restricting her freedoms and will for a while yet. Nigel Farage wanted
to bring her to the US to speak at a conference but she's still "on
licence" - which I believe is similar to parole - so she can't leave the
UK without special permission from the government; the government has
made it clear she will *not* get that permission.

Essentially, she got sentenced to five years for her "crime", served
part of it in custody, then was released "on licence" for the rest of
her sentence. She can't leave the UK until her full sentence has been
served unless she gets that special permission. (I suppose permission
*might* be forthcoming if she had a dire medical need that could not be
met in the UK or something of that kind but the Labour government is not
going to let her travel to trash them in America.)

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On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:58:24 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

I saw a segment about her just yesterday which shows that they are still >restricting her freedoms and will for a while yet. Nigel Farage wanted
to bring her to the US to speak at a conference but she's still "on
licence" - which I believe is similar to parole - so she can't leave the
UK without special permission from the government; the government has
made it clear she will *not* get that permission.

Essentially, she got sentenced to five years for her "crime", served
part of it in custody, then was released "on licence" for the rest of
her sentence. She can't leave the UK until her full sentence has been
served unless she gets that special permission. (I suppose permission >*might* be forthcoming if she had a dire medical need that could not be
met in the UK or something of that kind but the Labour government is not >going to let her travel to trash them in America.)

What I don't understand about her case is that her husband is (or at
least was until recently) a Conservative MP.

Parties in power don't normally go all out against opposition MPs and
their families since they know that what goes round comes round on
them later.

Maybe she should start a suit against the British National Health
Service for her son's untimely death which nearly everybody says was a
result of medical negligence - I don't know what British damages would
be but if in the US would be multi-millions.

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