OK I get that, saying, "sorry I didn't mean to chant vile racist abuse, set a police car on fire and punch a policeman in the face", should give them a lesser sentence? should be taken with a pinch of salt, as it's bullshit.
I had no sympathy with Just Stop Oil (although I agree with their broad message) for the way they caused chaos. To think they got basically double the sentences of these fucking morons beggars belief.
How much of that has happened in the last month of a Labour Government and how much in the previous fourteen years of a Conservative Government? I'm partisan, a lifelong Labour member, but fuck that is simplifying stuff to the nth degree.
Yeah and no. Think the sentences are a little lenient.
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Three jailed today. 20 months, two and a half years and three years. Scum.
https://news.sky.com/story/three-men-jailed-in-first-crown-court-sentences-over-rioting-after-southport-attack-13192357
I see where you're coming from but it doesn't make me uncomfortable that she could go down. Words have consequences.
Advocating burning hotels with people inside isn't a slap on the wrist and "don't do it again" offence.
No sympathy for her. Feel for her daughter though. I wonder if she's old...
I think the "burst of anger" defence is blown out of the water by the "if that makes me a racist then so be it" punchline.
She'll go down for that. She has a daughter too, FFS.
People are so fucking stupid.