{"id":75276,"date":"2025-05-16T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75276"},"modified":"2025-05-16T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:47:33","slug":"jailed-tory-councillors-wife-says-rant-about-setting-fire-to-migrant-hotels-never-meant-to-incite-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/16\/jailed-tory-councillors-wife-says-rant-about-setting-fire-to-migrant-hotels-never-meant-to-incite-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Tory councillor\u2019s wife says rant about setting fire to migrant hotels \u2018never meant to incite violence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ER5Nl.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=1473&amp;y=543&amp;s=664&amp;d=664\" alt=\"Former Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly outside the Court of Appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, where his wife Lucy Connolly has appealed her 31-month jail sentence after her online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport attacks (PA)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wife of a former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/conservative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Conservative<\/a>\u00a0county councillor who called for migrant hotels to be set on fire said she never meant to incite violence, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/court-of-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Court of Appeal<\/a> hearing heard.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/jailed-tory-councillor-s-wife-says-rant-about-setting-fire-to-migrant-hotels-never-meant-to-incite-violence\/ar-AA1ERhtY?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=2ebc8ecb4be14f21878e215ccff41266&amp;ei=60\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The wife of a former\u00a0Conservative\u00a0county councillor who called for migrant hotels to be set on fire said she never meant to incite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Lucie-Connolly.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75277,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75276\/revisions\/75277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}