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Nasty Party Rears Its Head Again
// In an article in the Sunday Times, a Tory backbencher was quoted as saying: "The moment is coming when the knife gets heated, stuck in her front and twisted. She'll be dead soon."
The PM was also told to "bring her own noose" to a meeting later this week.
One MP asked: "Have they learned nothing following the assassination of Jo Cox?" //
Is this really the kind of language we expect from our politicians?
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The PM was also told to "bring her own noose" to a meeting later this week.
One MP asked: "Have they learned nothing following the assassination of Jo Cox?" //
Is this really the kind of language we expect from our politicians?
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It appears Labour were responsible for spreading the contagion.
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// A senior Labour MP has called on Conservative whips to identify party colleagues who use “vile and dehumanising language” towards Theresa May, after a weekend during which there were rhetorical references to the prime minister being knifed and hanged.
The comments from Yvette Cooper came as Downing Street also said there should be no place for “dehumanising or derogatory” language in politics.
The Sunday Times quoted one unnamed Tory MP as saying: “The moment is coming when the knife gets heated, stuck in her front and twisted. She’ll be dead soon.” Another said May was now entering “the killing zone”, and a third remarked: “Assassination is in the air.”
“Nobody should be subject to that kind of violent language, which I think is normalising violence in public debate at a time when we lost Jo Cox, we have had threats against Rosie Cooper, we have had other violent death threats against women MPs.”
She added: “It’s about time we know who that Conservative MP is who is making these threats because maybe if they use that language they will stop doing so if they are being called out publicly from using that kind o
The comments from Yvette Cooper came as Downing Street also said there should be no place for “dehumanising or derogatory” language in politics.
The Sunday Times quoted one unnamed Tory MP as saying: “The moment is coming when the knife gets heated, stuck in her front and twisted. She’ll be dead soon.” Another said May was now entering “the killing zone”, and a third remarked: “Assassination is in the air.”
“Nobody should be subject to that kind of violent language, which I think is normalising violence in public debate at a time when we lost Jo Cox, we have had threats against Rosie Cooper, we have had other violent death threats against women MPs.”
She added: “It’s about time we know who that Conservative MP is who is making these threats because maybe if they use that language they will stop doing so if they are being called out publicly from using that kind o
At the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect here, I don't care. These are educated people using our language properly to describe a situation or scenario. Do you really think they are not sharpening their knives? (There's another example I've just used).
It doesn't matter if they say 'Boris Johnson is going to gut her and eat her entrails in that meeting' or if they say ' Boris Johnson is going to do his best to make sure she can be removed as Prime Minister probably by unpleasant means'- the meaning is exactly the same, so to me it doesn't matter, it's just hyperbole, and quoite normal in our language.
There, now you can all burn me at the stake ;-)
It doesn't matter if they say 'Boris Johnson is going to gut her and eat her entrails in that meeting' or if they say ' Boris Johnson is going to do his best to make sure she can be removed as Prime Minister probably by unpleasant means'- the meaning is exactly the same, so to me it doesn't matter, it's just hyperbole, and quoite normal in our language.
There, now you can all burn me at the stake ;-)
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