Double standards some MPs live by
THE main reason that ‘Westminster harassment’ and MP Anna Soubry’s altercation in particular got such widespread coverage in the media is because it is Remainers who are the target.
I don’t remember any MPs doing the rounds on television when Nigel Farage and his young family were attacked in their local village pub on a Sunday afternoon a few years ago or when Jacob Rees-Mogg, his children and their nanny were verbally abused at length outside their home.
It seems that George Orwell had a point when he wrote in his 1945 masterpiece Animal Farm that “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”.
Nothing sums up our current political class and the double standards they live by quite so well. Paul Sheehan
Binley
Brexit verbal abuse was disgusting
WE call our selves a civilised first world country, but the shocking scenes of a lone female MP being harassed on the street brings shame on us all.
New faces, new groups and new logos, but in truth it’s the same old people who taint British politics and refuse to respect our democracy.
The sight of Anna Soubry being physically and verbally abused by these so called Brexit activists was disgusting.
Thankfully it was all caught on film and the police should be able to get involved.
Jessica Reece-Khan Cannon Park
People should be able to protest
MORE than 50 MPs have signed a letter to London’s police chief because Anna Soubry was heckled by protesters outside parliament.
She was called a “liar” and a “Nazi” during live TV interviews on the BBC and Sky.
MPs have responded by calling protesters “far-right” and “extreme right” and described their behaviour as “vile, misogynistic thuggery”.
The hypocrisy of responding in this way and then asking police to take action is incredible.
MPs do not understand the irony because they are simply self-serving.
MPs have even called for protesters to have their social media accounts shut down to silence their views.
The letter adds that it is “utterly unacceptable for Members of Parliament, journalists, activists and members of the public to be subject to abuse” while those who signed it make abusive remarks about members of the public for protesting outside parliament.
You couldn’t make it up.
Ian A Rogers
UKIP Coventry & Rugby