Words.....too Much Emphasis On Them

[Bobbisox1]

‘Humbug’ etc
Is the infighting losing its way?

[Old_Geezer]

Just looking forward to Christmas

[THECORBYLOON]

"Humbug" was part of the response to this,

"I genuinely do not seek to stifle robust debate, but this evening the Prime Minister has continually used pejorative language to describe an Act of Parliament that was passed by this House. I am sure you would agree, Mr Speaker, that we should not resort to the use of offensive, dangerous or inflammatory language about legislation that we do not like.​

We stand here, Mr Speaker, under the shield of our departed friend. Many of us in this place are subject to death threats and abuse every single day. Let me tell the Prime Minister that they often quote his words—surrender Act, betrayal, traitor—and I, for one, am sick of it. We must moderate our language, and that has to come from the Prime Minister first, so I should be interested in hearing his opinion. He should be absolutely ashamed of himself."

Was the PM's reply appropriate?

[douglas9401]

It's not happening people. Get over it.

[fiction-factory]

I heard Dianne Abbott slamming Boris this morning on Radio 4. She compaline dthat he had broken the law and yet some Tory MPs had cheered him- and then drew an analogy with others who break the law like murderer and said they wouldn't cheer a murderer. Clearly Boris is not the only one using emotive language

[Mozz71]

Its wasn't the word, but the fact that BoJo dismissed a claim of a fellow MP that she and her family have received death threats online since this debacle begun.

If this is true (and there is nothing to suggest that it isn't), there should be investigations into it, not summary dismissal of the claim by the PM. It was bad form from Boris.

[Bazile]

Depends when it's
used .

Following a female MP (forgotten who she is )
highlighting the fact that some female MP's had received some quite horrible threats , including death - Boris's use of the word was shameful

[Theland]

Moderation should be our duty, mostly, until we speak about something outrageous.

[THECORBYLOON]

The MP was Paula Sherriff, Labour MP for Dewsbury.

[Old_Geezer]

Perfectly appropriate. The humbug ought not have been brought up in the first place.

If one doesn't want it pointed out they'd passed an Act of Surrender to the EU, which was a betrayal of nation and democracy, and could thus be considered traitors, then the best thing to have done was not to have passed an Act of Surrender to the EU, which was a betrayal of nation and democracy, and thus become considered traitors to various folk.

Crying over it afterwards because it obvious what they'd done isn't the sort of thing one expects from a tough political adversary.

[fiction-factory]

Maybe ABers should refrain from using terms such as traitor, VBQ, libtards too.
I think Boris sounded uncaring with his Humbug response but I think people are stretching things a bit to blame a fair share of the death threats on the words Boris has used.

[anneasquith]

Happy to agree with ff. many abers in news topic use exact same words as we heard in parliament yesterday.

[retrocop]

I just heard Traitor Major railing against the P.M. with regard to certain words used by Boris Johnson in his parliamentary speeches. Apart from the word Traitor, which Major is, He whined about his dislike of the word 'betrayal'. No surprise there then. I am sure it resonated many times when his wife accused him of it when he was screwing Edwina Currie.. That 'has been' P.M. would be wiser to clam up and wind his neck in . He is no paragon of virtue and has the morals off a alley cat.

When our remainers whine that the P.M. has unlawfully prorogued Parliament and lied to the people they convieniently forget that their former Labour Prime Minister and his current serving members in the Labour party lied to the people, went against the peoples wishes, and took us into a 'Unlawful War' whereby good young service people died and created further unrest where thousands of innocents were killed in the M.E.
I don't think anyone should go to work with death threats sitting on their door steps whatever party they represent but these politicians were happy,in the Labour party, to send young service personnel to face death on a bunch of lies their leader (Bliar) invented.
I can only finish by saying if you represent the people and then stab them in the back then you can expect the worst. You will become seriously unpopular and face violence and death.
I recall a few high profile heads of state I had to protect in the UK.
Indira Ghandi, Rhanjit Ghandi, Golda Meir. They were safe in our hands in the UK but were bumped off pronto when back home, having seriously upset the people they represent. Jo Cox didn't get the protection of a high profile target and was bumped off by a right wing opportunist nutter.
I am sure that security must be ramped up now as a result of the majority being betrayed by those who are not accepting the democratic vote. If the Labourites and the rest who attempt to thwart democracy and the will of the people are frit then put up or shut up . Lets have a G.E.

[Ken4155]

Think there's quite a big difference using those words on AB which has a small audience, as opposed to live Parliamentary tv which (potentially) has an audience of millions. Some of which may well be those morons who send these vile messages. Remember, monkey see, monkey do.

[Ken4155]

Retrocop; Major, as far as we know, had one extra marital affair. How many has Bonking Boris had? Pot, kettle, black?

[Theland]

We get the government we deserve.

[Theland]

Wow what a great post!

[10ClarionSt]

Santimony abounds on here! Just because there is "history" with some politicians, doesn't mean that they are wrong to speak out now. As one user of this web site quoted to me last week: That was then. This is now. I just love this web site! :o) I do! I do!

[ichkeria]

What astonished me was Maria Miller claiming that calling the Benn act the “surrender bill” was a handy way of describing it for people who hadn’t read every line of it!! A nice joke, but she was being serious!