Nasty Party Rears Its Head Again

[Gromit]

// 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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[anneasquith]

They sound more like thugs !!!!

[maggiebee]

Agree Anne, a load of backstabbers.

[youngmafbog]

The Nasty Party - right-ho.

Do we know who said these things or is it hearsay?

I seem to recall the labour party using similar language, didnt hear a peep from you then did we?

And no, I dont agree with the use of such language, even if not meant literally.

[kvalidir]

It's the type of thing that people say, it's very unfortunate when that becomes public.

[Old_Geezer]

Most use hyperbole for effect sometimes.

No big deal.

But high time she who isn't getting us out was replaced by someone who will.

[Gromit]

// Do we know who said these things or is it hearsay? //

We do not know who they are because they are cowards and spoke to the Sunday Times under anonymity.
The newspaper is not in the habit of making up quotes for MPs. It is in the newspaper because they said it, no heresay about it.

[Jackdaw33]

Nothing wrong with a bit of metaphorical hyperbole. It is merely an expression of the great frustration felt about this appallingly incompetent woman. If the Tories want a lynch mob, I for one will not stand in their way.

[emmie]

no it isn't, those people should be sacked.

[retrocop]

It appears Labour were responsible for spreading the contagion.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/902843/John-McDonnell-Labour-Party-Margaret-Thatcher-BBC-Esther-McVey-Theresa-May

[Gromit]

// 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

[gulliver1]

The Tories were always known as "The Nasty Party" until a few abers on here got upset and tried to lend the name to the Labout Party, Theresa May admitted, Tories were know as the Nasty Party when she was Home Sec.

[Gromit]

Retrocop,
McDonnell
// He said if he had a time machine, he would ho back in time and assasinate Mrs Thatcher. Obviously time machines do no exist, so the suggestion that the comment was a serious one, is misleading. //

[retrocop]

Yes Gromit exactly. The time machine no more exists than the 'heated knife' or 'noose'

[jim360]

http://newsthump.com/2018/10/22/tory-brexiters-demand-a-second-vote-on-who-should-be-leading-their-party/

[kvalidir]

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 ;-)

[Gromit]

Jim360,

// Tory Brexiters demand a second vote on who should be leading their party //

At the risk of being pedantic, there could not be a second vote because there wasn’t ever a first vote. May was installed unapposed when Boris, Gove, Davis et al all pulled out of the competition.

[jim360]

Oh stop ruining my fun :P

[DTCwordfan]

Nasty Party yes but no worse than the Corbyn assassins eliminating the centre of the party, one that was once venerated but no longer.

[hereIam]

In my opinion, that's a disgusting thing to say.

[ichkeria]

These are all MPs tho. Truth is they hate their own more than they do the opposition. They are all fanatics