{"id":319331,"date":"2025-12-02T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319331"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:48:09","slug":"uk-girl-barred-from-school-over-imprisoned-mothers-racist-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319331","title":{"rendered":"UK Girl Barred From School Over Imprisoned Mother\u2019s \u2018Racist\u2019 Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Steve Watson \u2013 modernity.news Dec 1, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Lucy Connolly, the mother jailed for 31 months over a single anti-mass immigration tweet int 2024, has revealed that her 13-year-old daughter Edie has been blocked from starting at a new school after the headteacher discovered her mother\u2019s identity and conviction, citing that \u201cracism doesn\u2019t go down well\u201d in their institution. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The devastating rejection, detailed in a GB News interview, sees Connolly, now free after over a year in prison, blast the decision as \u201coutrageous discrimination\u201d against her innocent child for her own political views.<\/p>\n<p>If true, the development represents yet another another grim chapter in Britain\u2019s speech gulag, where 10,000 were arrested last year for social media posts under vague hate speech laws.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Lucy Connolly reveals her 13-year-old daughter had her new school place rescinded when a headteacher realised Lucy was her mother.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cThey said racism doesn\u2019t go down well at the school and my daughter being there would cause a ruckus.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9mziPgltjt\">pic.twitter.com\/9mziPgltjt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Leo (@benleo444) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benleo444\/status\/1995315384858116214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Connolly told GB News \u201cThey said, \u2018we\u2019re going to be honest with you, the headteacher found out about who you were and put a block on the move and racism doesn\u2019t go down well in their school\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family had secured a six-week trial placement for Edie, desperate for stability after months of upheaval, but the discovery of Connolly\u2019s August 2024 sentence for her tweet in the wake of the murder of three young girls in Southport by a second generation Rwandan migrant, led to an abrupt cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>She claims that the headteacher of the school in question told the family the placement would be \u201ctoo difficult\u201d given the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA headteacher at another local school deemed it fit to discriminate against my child because of my political views,\u201d Connolly claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly fumed, \u201cIt\u2019s outrageous. My daughter is being punished for my views. She\u2019s innocent, and now she\u2019s the one suffering,\u201d adding \u201cIn what world is this ok?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Connolly\u2019s nightmare began in early August last year, when she was sentenced to 31 months for her tweet, which read \u201cMass deportation now, set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the bastards for all I care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Melbourne Inman KC called it \u201cgrossly offensive,\u201d imposing the maximum under the Public Order Act for \u201cstirring up racial hatred\u201d\u2014despite no direct threats and Connolly\u2019s lack of priors as a childminder.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"x0MrJ8HuAd\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/modernity.news\/2025\/05\/19\/the-case-for-reducing-lucy-connollys-31-month-sentence-for-a-tweet\/\">The Case For Reducing Lucy Connolly\u2019s 31-Month Sentence (For A Tweet)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" title=\"\u201cThe Case For Reducing Lucy Connolly\u2019s 31-Month Sentence (For A Tweet)\u201d \u2014 modernity\" src=\"https:\/\/modernity.news\/2025\/05\/19\/the-case-for-reducing-lucy-connollys-31-month-sentence-for-a-tweet\/embed\/#?secret=x0MrJ8HuAd\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" data-secret=\"x0MrJ8HuAd\"><\/iframe><script><\/p>\n<p>\/*! 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