Would The Patrician, Rees-Mogg, Have Been Within His Rights...

[sandyRoe]

...if he'd taken a horsewhip to the protester who verbally abused him in front of his children?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rees-mogg-brexit-jacob-children-protesters-video-nanny-ian-bone-class-war-a8534341.html

[New Judge]

Quite within his rights but in this ridiculously country he would be up before the Beak tomorrow morning.

[anneasquith]

He and his wife are ridiculous to allow their children to witness the behaviour of that man. Parents, move your children to safety close your door, or was the publicity just too good to turn down. I felt very sad/angry for those children. Then they parade the nanny!!!!!!!! . They are so awful they made the royals appear normal !!!!!

[kvalidir]

That's disgraceful behaviour, whatever you think of his, and I have to say I don't think very much nice, this is no way for anyone to behave. Poor children and poor family generally. Not all of us left wingers are like this, I find this dreadful.

[Mamyalynne]

What a thoroughly objectionable man.

No Sandy, he wouldn't have been within his rights , tempting though it must have been.

[baza]

Strange how the gobby bloke in the cloth cap managed to be heard ( hidden mic ? ), gives us cap wearing working class chaps a bad name.

[tamborine]

am amazed the police allowed the verbal abuse to the children.

Cloth cap should have been arrested.

[andres]

They weren't parading their children . It looked as if they were just returning home. What business is it of anyone's how much the nanny gets paid? She's been with the family 50 years and looked very happy . She should have socked that loud mouthed idiot .To their credit none of the family rose to the bait . This was just plain harassment by a loud mouthy idiot. However taking a horse-whip to him would not have been the answer.I am surprised that the policeman didn't do something even if it was to just move the man away.

[Spicerack]

Typical left wing cretin.

[Peter Pedant]

No

[Prudie]

Disgraceful lowlife behaviour. Even some 'nice' Abers will support this because of who is. They were not parading anybody. He has faults but he would make the best PM we've had for years and by miles.

[Peter Pedant]

I am at a loss to explain how New Judge can say he is within his rights and then he is breaking the law

I blame legal aid

Watch Fear thy Neighbour ( sudduv judge judy on meff - they always shoot each other - and words alone are never enough [to be a sufficient defence of self defence] )

OK that was guns - horse whips pro bono - I mean "fortiori but less",
whatever that is in Latin - ceteris paribus

[altho one of my frenz struck out pre emptively and successfully ran a self defence, defence. we never went out drinking with him again]

[Peter Pedant]

I dunno - if someone came up to my family and said - your daddy is a baby killer ....

I would go more for 'well we have survived havent we?' than horsewhips, suicide belts ( er self defeating but deffo does punish the evil doer) and machiine guns .....

[Prudie]

Maybe he meant moral rights

[zebo]

I think one is only allowed to abuse 'patricians' and not the plebbish slobs, it would be interested to know who the moron-with-mic was, I would expect him to have a similar back-ground to Rees-Mogg, they usually do. As for the question, yes he would, but look at the odium against Prescott who rightly retaliated when he was physically assaulted. One's rights seem to increase with one's abuse.

[tamborine]

isnt it unlawful to show childrens images in the public, especially without the parents consent.

If it is, the police need prosecuting along with the vid maker & the unwashed.

[Togo]

Haha. Horsewhip? Bit of a loaded "retaliation weapon of choice" there Sandyman. He would get away with a Shillelagh though, no doubt.

"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business."


Eric Hoffer.

[New Judge]

"...isnt it unlawful to show childrens images in the public, especially without the parents consent."

No.

[sandyRoe]

I can imagine Rees-Mogg chastising recalcitrant workers on his country estate with the said horsewhip, though not, of course, the beloved nanny who is probably treated as one of the family.

[fraser]

18.27 not all us left wingers are like that, really!!!!

[bainbrig]

The OED defines patrician as “A person of noble birth or rank, an aristocrat; a person of high social status, esp. one from an established wealthy family; a member of the upper classes.”

So (excepting the noble birth b@llsh1t) Reesmogg might qualify.

And it occurs that if he HAD been up before the beak it wouldn’t have been our resident masquerader, but a real one.