VIOLENT OUTBURSTS OF LABOUR’S HYPOCRITES
LABOUR MPs currently attacking the Government for using inflammatory language were accused of hypocrisy last night as many of them have made violent or aggressive statements themselves in recent times:
David Lammy, MP for Tottenham,
used a TV interview earlier this year to say that comparing hardline Tory Brexiteers to the Nazis was “not strong enough”. He added: “I would say that that wasn’t strong enough. In 1938 there were allies who hatched a plan for Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia, and Churchill said no, and he stood alone,” he told the BBC.
Kate Osamor, MP for Edmonton,
asked by a journalist about her son’s drugs arrest, allegedly told the reporter that she “should have come down here with a bat and smashed your face in”. She then told him to “**** off”, threw a bucket of water over him and rang the police accusing him of stalking her.”
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and Harlington,
right, spoke about personally feeling violent towards Conservative MPs. in June. “I’m getting worse. I sit in Parliament opposite a group of multimillionaires, who are cutting these services with alacrity. My problem is I’m beginning to feel physical towards them. These people need a good slapping.” He also said he had a recurring dream about “garrotting” former Liberal Democrat Cabinet Minister Danny Alexander. “My problem is I close my eyes and I start going in that deep sleep and I have a recurring dream of garrotting Danny Alexander,” he said in a 2014 speech. The Labour henchman was at it again in 2014 when he called for a female member of the Cabinet to be hung and called her a “b ****** ”. Responding to a campaign to remove Esther McVey from her seat, he said: “Why we are sacking her? Why aren’t we lynching the bastard?” And he once said he would have murdered Margaret Thatcher. He said: “They asked me a question: If you could go back in time what act would you do? And I said I’d go back and most probably – I wanted to say section Thatcher but I said assassinate Thatcher.”
Jess Phillips, MP for Birmingham Yardley,
said she would “knife Corbyn in the front” if he damaged the party. Speaking in 2015, she said: “If that means making Jeremy better, I’ll roll my sleeves up. If that’s not going to happen – and I’ve said [this] to him and to his staff to their faces: “The day that you are hurting us more than you are helping us, I won’t knife you in the back, I’ll knife you in the front.”
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Leader and MP for Islington North,
was accused of calling Theresa May a “stupid woman” under his breath during PMQs last year.