Mp Manhandles Protestor

[thesshhh]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9341616/climate-change-protester-philip-hammond/
Your thoughts?

[hereIam]

Glad the big bully has been suspended.

[naomi24]

I'm glad she wasn't carrying a weapon.

[hereIam]

Totally agree with andy (I know, makes a change).

[Peter Pedant]

// I'm glad she wasn't carrying a weapon.//
um her personality ?

a woman always has a secret weapon

awful interview with someone on R4 - you are allowed to be wrong and machine gun them apparently
and say - oops ! afterwards

about the only correct thing he said was - well it is up to the judge TBH.

[long section on self defence - but the fella wasnt self defending, was he?]

[naomi24]

AH, //she presented no apparent threat//

I disagree. Who's to know whether an approaching protestor is presenting a threat or not? Personally, I wouldn't give anyone in that situation the benefit of the doubt.

PP ... I've posted again. Your turn.

[douglas9401]

Best in future to wait and see what develops.
If something does then we can have an enquiry, pay the next in line oodles to state the bleedin obvious then do it all again in a few weeks.

Maybe if everybody wrote for two international drum magazines the world would be a safer place.

I know he loves to wind folk up thereby attracting clicks n comments but I can't believe it's not all just an act.

[webbo3]

after Jo Cox you wold have thought people wold support action taken against people threatening MPs, but hey he's a tory so he doesn't matter.

The left can do what ever they like and think they can get away with it.

[New Judge]

I've now watched the incident about five or six times.

My view is that the Minister acted reasonably to protect the people who were obviously the targets of this lunatic's actions. He had no idea what she would do and she had no right to be there at all, let alone do what she did. He did not slam her against a pillar. He simply stopped her progress then removed her from the room. Interestingly I froze the footage as the protester faced the camera being led away. There was no terror on her face, no signs of anguish or pain. She was smirking; she had achieved her aim.

It's about time that protesters (of all ilks) realised that they cannot disrupt events and gatherings without attracting some form of resistance from those taking part. People are entitled to go about their business uninterrupted and unmolested by people who hold different views to them. The security services failed miserably by allowing 40 or more protesters into a room where there were a number of government ministers and other bigwigs gathered. Mr Field did them a favour by doing what they should have done beforehand.

[anneasquith]

I do wonder why the numerous men and women in the very near vicinity of the ‘ incident’ did nothing, not even a change of expression a gesture, hide under the table ?

[webbo3]

Because he acted quickly.

[Baldric]

What would you have done Anne?

[New Judge]

//I do wonder why the numerous men and women in the very near vicinity of the ‘ incident’ did nothing,...//

Because they are fearful of ending up in front of The Beak for acting reasonably, Ann.

[sanmac]

At 1548: "...The lady was not armed, so imagining my response 'if she was' is neither here nor there." That and other comments being made about how in retrospect, in hindsight, in looking back, this barging-in woman caused no danger to anyone. Retropectology is a most exact science. The critical point is she could have: nobody knew at the time that it actually happened. Quite often acting proactively is a hell of a lot more efficacious than merely reacting to a situation which has already occurred and winging one's hands and claiming "Lessons will be learned because of this heinous atrocity."

[naomi24]

Douglas, :o)

[fender62]

perhaps and aber can collate all the outrages this week or month or year..political correctness gone mad, im offended that your offended
and that offence needs, the police to look into, and im offended that the police are wasting time, on the offended, via the perpetrators
who are not thinking correct thoughts, need to get with the program.

[Jackdaw33]

I'm still at a loss to understand how these harpies even got through the front door, let alone the dining room. Heads will roll and it won't be Field's.

[anneasquith]

Baldric,,,,, we all know what you would have done !

[Baldric]

That was not the question Anne.

[wolf63]

I think that he acted reasonably in the circumstances. He was acting on instinct - as we would all do in any potentially dangerous situation.

There is no time to stand back and analyse the situation or confer with colleagues.

The incident has given the batty ladies newspaper time but I don't think that is the correct way to run any sort of group/campaign. They need to use subtlety and engage their brains instead of their chaotic methods.

[david small]

AH takes on all comers, feathers flying and ruffled egos abound. This comedy of errors matters to those that take, what if, and, might have, a little too seriously.