Con Mp

[Farriercm]

What has the CON MP, Michael Louis David Fabricant , been up to on Twitter?

[sandyRoe]

Admitted to wearing a syrup? I confess I don't tweet or read them, either.

[Jomlett]

Michael Fabricant blasted for tweet saying he would 'punch Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in the throat' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-fabricant-blasted-for-tweet-saying-he-would-punch-yasmin-alibhaibrown-in-the-throat-9551175.html

[aelmpvw]

threatened to punch a journalist in the throat which i didn't take entirely seriously looking at him

[ToraToraTora]

he's bang on, I always want to punch this treacherous c0w too!

[kvalidir]

I think the remark was taken out of context and it's only a partial quote people are creating a fuss over.
Saying ' I'd like to punch Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in the throat' is very much different to saying 'I could never appear on a discussion programme with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, I would either end up with a brain haemorrhage or punching her in the throat.'

The first is clearly threatening and unpleasant, the second merely displays that he finds her taxing in the extreme by exaggeration. I think it was an ill advised attempt a humour and it's as ever a storm in a teacup. Don't people have anything better to worry about with the state of the world?

[jno]

quite right, kvalidiir, it wasn't a threat; it was clearly a joke. Perhaps not a madly funny one, but not to be taken literally. (TTT on the other hand sounds as if he means it.)

[ludwig]

It's a strange thing to say, and these days you have to apologise for saying strange things even if they're ovbiously not serious as long at least 1 out of 60 million people says they think you should apologise.

[factor-fiction]

"Punch him in the throat" does seem an odd thing to say to me- unless it was said (typed) in an East End accent. But people have always said things like "I could strangle him" or "I'm gonna kill him when I get home", and it's just accepted as hyperbole

[andy-hughes]

factor-fiction - ""Punch him in the throat" does seem an odd thing to say to me- unless it was said (typed) in an East End accent. But people have always said things like "I could strangle him" or "I'm gonna kill him when I get home", and it's just accepted as hyperbole"#

That's true, but that kind of announcement is reserved for the proverbial 'man in the street' - from our elected repreentatives, we are entitled to expect far far better.

If it was humourous, it shows the twin aspects of Mr Fabricant's personna - a stratospheric lack of judgement, combined with a similarly proportioned sense of humour.

Given the way he chooses to attempt to conceal his baldness, i cannot believe that he is without humour, so I'll go with the lack of judgement.

His observation that he would 'have a brain hemmrage or pinch the lady in the throat ...' - no need to reach for a coin there then!

[ludwig]

What on earth is going on with that wig? Is it ironic or what?

[andy-hughes]

He's a Conservative ludwig, they don't understand irony!

[Jomlett]

BBC News - MP Michael Fabricant apologises for 'punch journalist' joke but not for the wig! http://bbc.in/1nnk9Zv

[andy-hughes]

At least he has the decency to look like what he is - an arrogant out-of-touch buffoon!

[Gromit]

Daily Mail journalists tend to have that effect on a lot of people.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Yasmin+Alibhai-brown

[mikey4444]

More to the point, what on earth has he got on his head ? It can't be his own hair surely ? Even Boris looks tidier than him.

[andy-hughes]

Here you are mikey -

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-mp-michael-fabricant-admits-3524194

[mikey4444]

Thansk andy...it looks like something has fallen out of tree onto his bonce !

[Farriercm]

MIKEY You are correct ,He and Boring Boris ,do use the same Barber.

[jno]

it's not a wig

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/may/15/houseofcommons.politics

(Okay, that's not exactly new).

I quite like him myself. As long as (unlike Boris) he's not in a position of power.

[andy-hughes]

jno - how not?

The text talks about little BUT wigs!