(25-09-2019 22:27 )southsidestu Wrote: [ -> ]WOW
You think you have seen it all. Two female Labour MPs ask Johnson to stop using rhetoric like "surrender bill", "humiliation bill" & "capitulation bill" as it invokes that those that do not agree with him a traitors. They sight the murder of MP Jo Cox, her murderer gave his name in court as "death to traitors", as well as the fact that MPs, female MPs in particular are under considerable security risk.
Johnson replied to one of them "I have never heard so much humbug in my life" doubles down by explaining why he thinks it is a surrender bill and says that the best way to honour Jo Cox is by getting Brexit done.
That has to be the most disgusting display at the dispatch box I have ever seen from a PM possibly ever
So you honour Jo Cox's memory by "getting Brexit done", something she would have battled vehemently against ? What a tool, and on the language of surrender and humiliation etc as someone with an outside view of Britain that language just looks weak as fuck, it's just spin because he can't win the argument on its own merits, the argument being Brexit of course
Considering the Government insisted that prorogation was not about Brexit, but about the Queen's speech, it is strange that most of Johnson's speech/diatribe was about Brexit and he actually started off by talking about it. It was supposed to be a statement about prorogation allowing questions on it to be asked. By attacking the opposition he actually deflected close scrutiny of the decision making process leading to the closure of parliament.
When his statement was read out in the Lords they actually asked the Leader of the House of Lords, who sits on the cabinet and is one of the Privy Council who went to ask the Queen to agree prorogation, questions about the reasons given and why legal advice was actually sought on something Johnson claimed happened before every Queen's speech albeit for a shorter period of time. They actually therefore questioned the process and held Johnson's Government to account, something the Commons sadly failed to do.
I have a feeling the replace Johnson element within the CONservative Party are growing in number fast.
Jo Maugham QC, who I mentioned in a previous post, one of the main litigants in the Supreme Court case against the prorogation of parliament has been told by his local police & crime commissioner to wear a stab vest. A panic button has been installed in his house, as well as additional security measures, police have been told to make regular sweeps past his home to check that everything is alright. Maugham has also hired personal security for when he attends functions or is out in public.
Maugham had been receiving death threats for some time as he was originally involved in the case in Scotland with Joanna Cherry MP however the threat has escalated in recent days after "journalist" Julia Hartley Brewer made his address widely known on twitter.
Maugham along with his wife have three young children
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/sep...th-threats
^No sooner than me just posting this I go back onto twitter to see that Jess Phillips MP has told LBC reporter that a man has been arrested trying to get into her Parliamentary office whilst shouting that she is a fascist
And this on twitter from Yvette Cooper's daughter
"I rarely actually tweet, especially about politics - am more of the silent retweeter - but after the chilling scenes in Parliament last night I just don’t think I can stay quiet anymore. There’s a group of young people and children that need to be spoken for.
The language used by our Prime Minister - not a far-right populist or provocative journalist, but our Prime Minister - is just beyond words. The fact that the head of our government is actually using language that helps incite violence toward MPs is so beyond dangerous I can’t even comprehend it in a modern society.
I was 17 when Jo Cox was murdered. I just rang my mum, who is Yvette Cooper, on my way home from school to complain about the usual things and I distinctly remember her interrupting me to say “An MP’s been shot.”
I can honestly say my perspective of the world completely changed that day. Before then, my mum’s job was something that kept her working later then bedtime when I was a kid, the source of embarrassing conversations at school, the reason we travelled to and from between Yorkshire and London every week for the first two thirds of my life.
It was never something that could get her killed.
I am scared. I am scared when I scroll through the replies to her tweets calling her a liar and a traitor.
I am scared when our house gets fitted with panic buttons, industrial-locking doors and explosive bags to catch the mail.
I am scared because on the 16th of June 2016, two children said goodbye to their mother before she left for her constituency to sit in surgeries and help people all day, and never saw her again. I am scared every single day that the same will happen to mine."
(26-09-2019 15:48 )southsidestu Wrote: [ -> ]Jo Maugham QC, who I mentioned in a previous post, one of the main litigants in the Supreme Court case against the prorogation of parliament has been told by his local police & crime commissioner to wear a stab vest. A panic button has been installed in his house, as well as additional security measures, police have been told to make regular sweeps past his home to check that everything is alright. Maugham has also hired personal security for when he attends functions or is out in public.
Maugham had been receiving death threats for some time as he was originally involved in the case in Scotland with Joanna Cherry MP however the threat has escalated in recent days after "journalist" Julia Hartley Brewer made his address widely known on twitter.
Maugham along with his wife have three young children
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/sep...th-threats
She is the worst of humanity!!
