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by Cold_Miserable 361 days ago
The UK is going downhill. Economically and politically. Use of government thugs "police" to intimidate is just the beginning. Home invasion child rapists were given less time than Lucy Connelly, Alex Bellfield or Tommy Robinson got for hurty words.
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seanhunter 361 days ago
Alex Bellfield and Tommy Robinson did a lot more than “hurty words” and I think you know that.
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paulddraper 361 days ago
Tommy Robinson indeed went to prison for slander. I’m not sure what else you have in mind.
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buttercraft 361 days ago
Maybe this:

"In 2021 he was found to have libelled a 15-year-old refugee at a school in Huddersfield and was ordered to pay £100,000 plus legal costs. After breaching an injunction about repeating the libel, Robinson was sentenced to 18 months in prison for contempt of court in October 2024"

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"Robinson's criminal record includes convictions for violence, financial, and immigration frauds, cocaine possession with intent to supply, and public order offences.[135][136][137] He had previously served at least three separate custodial sentences: in 2005 for assault, in 2012 for using false travel documents and in 2014 for mortgage fraud."

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paulddraper 360 days ago
Prison for libel then.
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seanhunter 359 days ago
No. Prison for contempt of court. He lost a civil case related to the libel and was ordered to pay the victim and not repeat the libel (by showing his film). He decided to show his film at a rally, and the court deemed this contempt and sentenced him to prison.

However you frame it, that’s not “prison for libel”. That’s prison for contempt of court. He was ordered not to do a thing. He decided to do the thing. So the court sent him to prison.

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paulddraper 359 days ago
...and the thing the court ordered him to do was to not libel.

Really if there is any part you should disagree with it's "Home invasion child rapists were given less time"

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