>However, the jury did convict Barton over a post in which he said ITV pundit Aluko was "only there to tick boxes".
>"All off the back of the [Black Lives Matter]/George Floyd nonsense," he added.
It's now illegal to say someone who was hired to tick boxes was hired to pick boxes.
>The judge: "The law only intervenes when the content is of such an extreme, degrading or dehumanising character that society as a whole would say 'that goes too far, that crosses the line of what we can tolerate'."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykwlkewr7o
And here's the “far-right” Daily Mail:
>How Jeremy Vine took down smirking bully Joey Barton - IAN HERBERT takes you inside the 'snarling' court showdown that exposed football's most detestable man for who he really is
Even the morons on the UK sub-reddits are against this conviction.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-15269899/Joey-Barton-Jeremy-Vine-guilty-court-showdown.html