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Posted on 11/08/2025 7:19:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Joey Barton has been found guilty of posting grossly offensive messages on social media.
Barton was found guilty by a jury at Liverpool Crown Court of six counts of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety.
During his trial at Liverpool Crown Court, the ex-Manchester City and Newcastle midfielder, 43, said he believed he was the victim of a "political prosecution" and denied his aim was "to get clicks and promote himself".
But the jury decided Barton, who also played for England in 2007, had "crossed the line between free speech and a crime" with six posts he made on X.
The prosecution argued his comments on the platform, where he boasts more than two million followers, "may well be characterised as cutting, caustic, controversial and forthright".
Peter Wright KC continued: "Everyone is entitled to express views that are all of those things.
"What someone is not entitled to do is to post communications electronically that are - applying those standards - beyond the pale of what is tolerable in society."
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How do you say nuts in English?
They are out of their minds.
I’m reading the article and hard to believe it’s not a joke.
Seems that the Liverpool Crown Court is guilty of intentionally causing Mr. Barton distress or anxiety.
We are witnessing The Crown invalidate itself in real time.
What a bunch of Brit wanker-fags.
“Piffle” is one way. Piffle meaning nonsense or garbage.
Codswallop.
I believe that the current Liverpoolians would jail the Beatles.
God Save The Queen has a very different meaning in the way wacky woke world that used to be England.
If I were in England, would I be jailed for typing: LGBTQWERTY
The English tried to fine the 4chan monsters for hurting their feelings, and the autists told them to GTH.
Democrats would love a legal system like that, and a National Heath Service. They succeeded in getting “hate speech” laws passed and are fighting right now for a single-payer national health bureaucracy.
“You offended me with your hate speech. Here’s the bill for the shrink.”
But they call you a fascist, Nazi racist. “I was just joking, and it’s true anyway!” Judge: case dismissed.
The peasants of Britain have become serfs. And soon will be outright slaves.
Good thing Monty Python is no longer active. Can you imagine what “The Crown” would do to them, these days?
So’s your old man.
They would ban Paul McCartney’s “Give Ireland Back To The Irish”, for a completely different reason.
“with intent to cause distress or anxiety.”
They could prosecute anybody with those charges!
This verdict causes a ton of distress and anxiety in millions of people!
“England is a fag country.” - Archie Bunker
They let the government take their guns now the government can take the rest with impunity.
How can you be “guilty” of a POST?? Uk is insane.
A "bike nonce" is a slang term used in a derogatory and offensive way, most recently
popularized in social media posts by Joey Barton to attack broadcaster Jeremy Vine.
The term combines "bike," a reference to cycling, with "nonce," a British slang term
for a sex offender, implying the person is a pedophile who also rides a bicycle. While
Barton claimed the phrase was a form of dark humor about someone who "likes the
bike and the lycra," a UK judge ruled the posts were defamatory and grossly offensive.
What a dirty, run-down, crime-ridden, oppressive chit hole the UK has become.
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