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Originally Posted by Taf
Did Starmer direct judges to come down hard on dissenters? I suppose we'll never know. But the disparity in sentencing between Connolly and Jones shows that some judges are very fickle in how they deal with direct or perceived threats against people, both online and in public.
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I am not sure he directed judges directly, but there was a general attitude across the system to go in hard on the rioters. The same happened in the Tottenham Riots 10 or so years ago.
When there is mass civil disorder, we tend to give harsher sentences to stamp down on it and make people think twice. Such riots tend to have a sense of excited momentum, where people lose their minds and see it all as very exciting. Then they hear someone is going to prison, it snaps them back to their senses.