Interview With The Devil?

No one is interviewing Ricky Jones, an elected Councillor whom a jury found not guilty. Yet if it is not Lucy Connolly, then it is Ghislaine Maxwell. Why would any intelligence agency seek to recruit or influence Prince Andrew, or Sarah Ferguson? Beyond considerations of taste, what difference would it make if there were sex tapes of either? But with Ghislaine Maxwell comes Robert Maxwell. With Robert Maxwell comes Alastair Campbell, de facto Prime Minister from 1997 until at least 2003. With Campbell comes Peter Mandelson, three times a Cabinet Minister, for four years European Commissioner for Trade, and now British Ambassador to the United States as well as a legislator for life. And with Mandelson, we are back to Jeffrey Epstein.

With Campbell also comes the dodgy dossier, and thus the Whips’ Office that forced through the Iraq War. Along with the subsequently adjudicated and disqualified electoral fraud Phil Woolas, that Office included Ivor Caplin and Dan Norris, who was notably close to Caplin. All three were made Ministers a few weeks after the Iraq vote. Caplin was and is a close friend and the closest ally of his sometime lover, Peter Kyle. Like a serving Government Whip, Kyle was given his big break by the then Chief Whip. As the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Kyle would administer digital ID. Would you trust him and his ilk with your children’s and grandchildren’s photographs and contact details? Would you trust the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, which is on course for the contract?

As for Connolly, was she a political prisoner? I have been one twice, the second time indisputably. Although we have yet to see the details, Yvette Cooper may have made good on Theresa May’s promise of a statutory inquiry into Orgreave. But I was refused on 23 June the tag that I had twice been promised in writing, the decision of a Home Office headed by that close ally of the former Labour Leadership of and then on Durham County Council, and I was released on 7 August only because the judge had specified that I must be, every effort having been made to keep me banged up at least until 7 November. Still, the message of Connolly’s case, always to plead not guilty, will have been heard loud and clear by, for example, the ever-lengthening list of people who were apparently to be brought before the courts charged with having expressed support for Palestine Action. Jury trials for every single one of them, Yvette. Never plead guilty. I know whereof I speak.

Having publicly called for hotels with human beings in them to be burned down, hotels and human beings that have since been attacked, Connolly was made to serve only 40 per cent of her sentence. Whereas after I had been due to be tagged, this guilty-pleading convict of non-violent, non-sexual, non-domestic, non-terrorist, and non-drugs-related offences watched that close ally of the former Labour Leadership of and then on Durham County Council tag wifebeaters, drug-dealers, and ringleaders of last year’s race riots. The Leadership of what little Labour Group remains on that authority has passed to the old NUM Left from the Strike; to the last of the five Councillors who were suspended from the Labour Party in 2008. But the mere electoral will of the people is irrelevant to these matters. Nevertheless, let Cooper feel it when an acquitted Palestine Action defendant contested what she had already turned from her safe into her marginal seat. Will Reform UK, which is predicted to win it, field Connolly as its candidate? If not, why not? The law on local elections is tighter in this as in many other ways, but I had been sentenced to 12 months in 2021, and although I had to withdraw due to ill health, my nomination to contest the 2024 General Election was accepted without difficulty.