Throw Away the Key

In yet another sign of our morally destabilised times, the spouse and helpmeat of a recently-ejected Conservative councillor has protested that a legal prison sentence is too harsh; although there is some reassuring residual consistency in the fact that the sentence happens to be her own. Having reacted to the Southport child murders in accordance with civilised Western values (viz. by calling for large numbers of unrelated persons to be deported or burned alive), the unfortunate lady faces incarceration for two years and seven months and has now been refused leave to appeal against the sentence, even though she pledged to play the mental health card that has gained so many genuine criminals their luxury flatscreen not-guilty verdicts.

Of course the sentence is unjustifiable. However legal it may be, a prison term for putting words on social media is ridiculous, and the presence of such a penalty on the statute books almost certainly owes less to His Majesty's Government's urge to protect minorities than to His Majesty's Government's habitual largesse towards human warehousing profiteers. A properly vengeful system would punish incitement to racial hatred with community service at the beck and call of the community incited against; which would lead to the pleasing spectacle of the Conservative Party, the Farage Falange and a sizeable portion of Team Starmer cooking and cleaning for suspected refugees.