Comments on: Far-right Newport West candidate defends soldiers shooting at Corbyn image https://leftfootforward.org/2019/04/far-right-newport-west-candidate-defends-soldiers-shooting-at-corbyn-image/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:53:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: SI https://leftfootforward.org/2019/04/far-right-newport-west-candidate-defends-soldiers-shooting-at-corbyn-image/#comment-957541 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:53:52 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=135778#comment-957541 @wg

“Labour’s threatening behaviour” ? Don’t make me laugh. Where has John McDonnell advocated any of what you allege ? Where has this been directed at a political opponent ?
Having an effigy of someone is symbolic , unless you really would have us believe that Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th is a revolutionary uprising.
HOWEVER we have to look at things in context and the current climate. Coming after the murder of Jo Cox and following on from that not one , not two , but THREE plots to kill Labour MPs and an Assault on one of those targeted in the last 12 months. It really is reprehensible that anybody would be so dismissive of violence against MPs and try to pass it off as ‘harmless banter’ and far more disingenuous that you would suggest that Labour MPs are fair game because someone once made an effigy of Thatcher. Give your head a wobble.

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By: wg https://leftfootforward.org/2019/04/far-right-newport-west-candidate-defends-soldiers-shooting-at-corbyn-image/#comment-957470 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 07:51:21 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=135778#comment-957470 @Patrick Newman

You really are a hypocrite if you fail to see Labour’s threatening behaviour; especially the violent rhetoric of one John McDonnell.
Lynching, kneecapping, kicking, and slapping seem par for the course as far as our John’s concerned/

I also don’t remember too much fuss when Thatcher’s coffin was paraded through the street – or effigy burned.

And if I were a member of HM’s forces, I would be a bit anti-Labour – how does a political party send our troops into war and then persecute the personnel when they return to civvy life?
Persecutions that are brought by so-described ‘rights’ groups from which Labour MPs have gained financially.

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By: Patrick Newman https://leftfootforward.org/2019/04/far-right-newport-west-candidate-defends-soldiers-shooting-at-corbyn-image/#comment-957364 Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:43:11 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=135778#comment-957364 It is unfortunately just a matter of time before either Corbyn or Abbott are seriously assaulted given the rhetoric and hate produced by the Tory Party and the Right-wing press. Also, you can’t rule out Mossad getting up to something. They are not bothered by alleged anti-Semitism. It’s Corbyn’s support of Gaze that is their main concern.

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