I think her sentence was excessive but not by much. Just remember both the content and the timing of her tweet - at the height of the street disorders when rioters were already trying to set migrant hostels on fire.And the content: she said "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the bast***s for all I care... If that makes me racist, so be it.”The tweet was, according to the judge at her trial "widely read – it was viewed 310,000 times with 940 reposts, 58 quotes and 113 bookmarks”.Yes, she took it down after three hours and yes she apologised but she is anything but a free speech martyr in my view. By any stretch of the imagination it was inflammatory and shocking stuff.
Jonathan Callaway ● 14d