‘If That Makes Me Racist, So be It!’: Unremorseful White Woman Learns the Hard After Bigoted Tirade on Social Media Lands Her In Jail

The wife of a conservative British politician has been sentenced to one year behind bars for inciting racial hatred on social media. Lucy Connolly, a 41-year-old nanny from West Northhampshire, called for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire and for mass deportation in a July 29 post on X. Connolly’s offensive statements were posted on the same day as the Southport Stabbings, when three young girls were killed and many others injured in a knife attack during a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga event in the northwest town of Southport. Lucy Connolly (Photo: Northamptonshire Police) The perpetrator, a teenage boy whose parents hailed from Rwanda, was falsely thought to be an illegal immigrant, and riots by far-right groups erupted across the country. In one instance, conservative protestors violently clashed with police near a mosque in Southport, setting vehicles aflame, throwing bottles at authorities, and injuring police dogs, reported CNN. Connolly’s tweet, according to the sentencing remarks, read, “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f—ing hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re at it, take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now...