After yet another MP, Mike Freer, steps down fearing his safety, I can finally say that I agree with something that Angela Rayner is saying.
She said ‘I think what people need to understand is that you can disagree with a member of Parliament, whichever political party they are,’ I couldn’t agree more.
She went on to say that ‘constant threats and abuse and the fact that we’ve had two of our colleagues murdered in the last couple of years does weigh on our minds’.
Of course she’s talking about the murders of Joe Cox and Sir David Amess.
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I remember his death, I had just done a slot on Jeremy Vine in the morning, when Gary Lineker decided to call me ‘vile’ on social media to his 8.2million followers at the time, instigating a pile on of hate.
He knew the effect it would have, how could he not… I got the usual stuff alongside a load of death threats.
Angela Rayner is increasingly in the media eyePAI complained to the BBC, but nothing happened.
That’s the problem these days. We’ve got a generation of people who believe they hold the moral high ground so any manner of behaviour goes.
Take the pro-Palestine protesters, they believe they are right and many are chanting from the river to the sea which pretty much ever Jewish person I have met has found deeply offensive, others on these marches haven’t got a clue what they’re talking about.
The debates these days are so polarised that they almost encourage extremism and an inability to think critically which I believe is partly why we find our selves here.
At least if a politician calls for help, the police won’t take hours to get to them, they’ll get medical treatment pretty sharpish, not that that’s any consolation.
But they’re in charge of keeping law and order in this country and they’ve failed. Whilst I’m not blaming them for the rogue actions of crazy individuals, it doesn’t help that they’ve collectively done such a bad job policing our borders..
Rishi Sunak has vowed to deal with the intimidation that many MP’s face, but Angela should be more concerned that things will get worse with her soft touch party, especially when it comes to immigration with Sir Keir Starmer at the helm.
I don’t blame Mike for standing down, but let’s be totally honest, the Tories on the current trajectory are staring annihilation in the face, so if he hadn’t agreed to step down and not contest the next general election, he probably wouldn’t be in his seat after it in any case.
But to be fair to him, his office was firebombed on Christmas Eve, I’d have gone then, so the fact that he’s stayed on after that is testament to his commitment to the role, but Who would want to do the job anyway…