One rule for the Right and one for the Left: Childminder got 31 months for a tweet - let's see what Leftie gets for attacking Farage - Kelvin MacKenzie

The law is clearly an ass in this case. The Recorder of Birmingham confuses physical rioting, the attacking of police officers or actual attempts to burn down hostels, with the claptrap that is written and appears by the billion on social media, especially X/Twitter.

The idea that the views of a childminder, with no previous conviction of any kind, would incite anybody to do anything she says is ridiculous. There are only three reactions to tweets.

• 1)That is interesting (or funny) and I will ping a like to it;
• 2)That is dull (or stupid) and I will respond with a vile putdown;
• 3)I must block that idiot;

The idea that anybody would have been incited to do anything beyond turning on the TV by that tweet is for the birds. It was simply a display of anger by a 41-year-old woman at the untrue information coming out of Southport about the killing of those little girls at the Taylor Swift dance school.

By pleading guilty she gave her counsel the opportunity to say to the court that that she acknowledged she had encouraged people to commit a crime. She should never have done that. In effect she threw herself at the mercy of the court. Her lawyer should have stopped her doing that. An error.

That gave the judge the opportunity to throw the book at her. And he did. And he was wrong. I presume he was following the orders of his judicial masters who had a word from the top (the Prime Minister) that we should crack down the rioters.

Rioters yes, keyboard warriors no. Nobody can show me one single example of anybody reading a tweet and saying I must do that.

The reality is that she should have received a non-custodial sentence. Not least of all because they are letting the violent out of jail right to be replaced with the like of the non-violent Connolly. After all it was only a couple of months back a lady got 15 months jail for a Facebook post.

Much has been made of Connolly’s husband Raymond being a Tory councillor in West Northamptonshire. I am astonished he hasn’t been more vocal on the matter. Hardly said a word. Why? He doesn’t have to agree with what his wife said - I certainly don’t - but he could attack the sentence.

I hope that he sets up a Go Fund Me page as I believe he will be swamped with money. My bet is at least £100,000 will pour in so Connolly can get a better KC to take on both the judiciary and the Prime Minister if needed.

While Connolly, 41, languishes in jail I see that Victoria Bowen, she’s 25 and an Onlyfans ‘’model’’, who changed her plea to guilty at the last minute at Westminster magistrates’ court to throwing a milkshake over Reform leader Nigel Farage in Clacton.

She will be sentenced on December 16 and it got me thinking that if you send a tweet you receive 31 months what should you get for a physical assault of a political leader.

Were she to appear in front of Judge Melbourne Inman, who handed Connolly the 31 months, the very minimum my mind would be five years. Then watch what would happen.

Suddenly all the liberal types would come out of the woodwork. There would be campaigns galore, explaining her difficult background and the like. All quite nauseating, but because a media like The Guardian would get behind it, suddenly Home Secretary Yvette Cooper would announce that she was going to be freed on the compassionate grounds that her ‘’fans’’ were missing her.

Sounds ridiculous but mark my words. One rule for the Right and another for the Left.