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June 21, 2019 at 2:32 pm #34289
I suspect that this image and similar ones will haunt any future General Election prospects for quite some while. (The eyes have it!)
– Screengrab from BBC news report
June 21, 2019 at 3:03 pm #34299Putting myself in his place, following everything from Jo Cox to the harassment outside Parliament to the Milkshake brigade, I think he did the right thing wrongly.
Having said that, however, had she been carrying anything from a talc container of anthrax to a drinks bottle filled with acid, he would be proclaimed as the hero of the hour.
They are all saying he needs anger management, but that is belied by his words and his tone at the time. If you listen as he passes the camera you can hear him say “…….escort this person out of here.” Those aren’t the words of someone with anger issues!!
The act of stepping up is both immediate and instinctive for some people. Yesterday my son intervened when someone attacked a server in Starbucks. He stepped in and prevented the idiot from hurting anybody but got some milk ( cold luckily ) thrown over him for his troubles. We asked him, what if they had been carrying a knife? His reply was similar to this guys comment, you just don’t think – you just do.
June 21, 2019 at 4:51 pm #34301I am with you JayCeeDee, these are troubled times and a stupid stunt like that deserves a good slap down. What a shame there was not some, (any?) security to block the damned greennoise granny hoodlums and anyone else who thinks it fine to bust into anywhere to do who knows what whenever the humour takes them. I wonder if granny lib would like a visit from someone totally unannounced into e.g. their home to ‘discuss’ their beliefs.
This country has just announced a program of environmental objectives with an end date, but some how I still doubt that granny lib/greennoise wanted to say well done. The fact that it happened so close to a senior police person complaining that venues still had little or no protection from mad terrorists was possibly not far from a few minds.
June 21, 2019 at 5:36 pm #34302Perhaps this should have been titled the unacceptable face of green rebels since Poland, Hungary, Estonia and the Czech Republic blocked a planned EU pledge to cut carbon emissions to a net zero by 2050. They refused to support summit conclusions that would have been a signal of intent from the bloc to meet the Paris climate agreement agreement to limit global warning to 1.5 degrees at a summit in Brussels on Thursday night.
Why were the greennoise rabble not taking on those four environmental hooligans?
June 21, 2019 at 7:16 pm #34304The thing that will probably stick in most peoples mind is that he went straight for the throat.
He could easily have just got in her way, hand out in front of him and told her she was going no further.
I think both should be under investigation.
June 21, 2019 at 9:35 pm #34312The thing that sticks in my mind is the assumption of armed. And, having watched the video, had I been her (and she isn’t pressing charges), I’d have punched his smug lights out.
Back to the topic, is there an acceptable face of Conservatism?
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June 21, 2019 at 11:36 pm #34316The “she could have been armed” is such a get out clause. Compare her actions to people who have been armed and going for victims, totally different and pretty obvious. Did the Borough Market knife-men behave as she did? She wasn’t even shouting Allahu Akbar, she was saying “This is a peaceful protest” never mind the lack of knife.
Anthrax attack? It’s never happened outside of TV dramas. The easily obtainable “weapon” that terrifies right wing politicians is a McMilkshake. Just buy one, get your mates to buy one too and then saunter up and down by a likely campaigner bus sucking proactively on the straw. If you want to be a real rebel, wink at the trapped politician now and then to remind him or her just how much their dry cleaning bill could be.
When was the last kamikazi attack by a ginger haired white woman handing out leaflets? Death by pamphlet? Had it really been a 6 foot 6 knife wielding manic he’d have been out of there or under the table. Typical macho approach, sees an easy target and goes for the big strong man meme. He had plenty of time, nano seconds, to realise what he actually had by the neck and modified his tactics, he didn’t.
He went for the hero of the hour because he thought it would play well to the audience. It didn’t.
June 22, 2019 at 6:59 am #34320He had ample opportunity to see that women in evening gowns pose little risk, his actions were disproportionately violent as he could have just stood up and blocked her path.
It was perhaps extremely unfortunate that he gave the following speech the previous week, and demonstrated the usual mendacity of politicians.
“We should all be proud that the UK remains committed to helping women all over the world feel safe and protected in the work that they do so they are able to speak very freely, and to be part of the change that we all wish to see.”
June 22, 2019 at 8:11 am #34321What a shower of supermen with all this time to think things through in such refined and fine detail.
Reality check a bunch of possibly woman burst into a room playing a siren and announcing gloom and doom while one of them rushes the head of the table.
What are you going to do?
The very real prospect is that I would remain seated frozen in place and uncertain what was happening, however in the very unlikely event that were not to be the case very probably I would expect to take direct action, though my capacity to do so would probably intervene and I once more would do nothing.
Hindsight gives 20/20 vision everyone now apparently knows that they were just a bunch of attention seekers who got what they wanted and that they were armed with only their own native stupidity, it has not always been the case. Knives do not have to be huge meat cleavers, planes have been hijacked with small knives that were easily hidden but can slash and have slashed throats. Reviewing all the possible options when faced with a real live situation is frankly for the birds or armchair experts. In the event very few know how they would really react unless they were specifically trained to deal with such events. Security people should be so trained but where were they? Stunts like this stupidity should never have been possible.
So Dave and Ed shame on you for assigning false motives in a bluntly put rather less than honest assessment of events.
June 22, 2019 at 9:16 am #34323Just pushing his seat back would have blocked the passage way. Grabbing her breast then her throat were clearly not appropriate to any situation.
Sorry, but I do not agree with the Tory apologists who have posted, as my OP clearly just made the statement that this action could come back to haunt Election prospects – women are becoming far more organised and militant in punishing any perceived chauvinistic actions.
I would have had a milder supportive view had you just said it would be important to fast track the official investigation, and nip this in the bud.
June 22, 2019 at 9:27 am #34324Couldn’t agree more Richard. As someone who has had to deal with supposed GreenPEACE protesters, and I empasis the PEACE, they are some of the most obnoxious people I have ever had contact with. They see no-one’s point of view but their own and in some circumstances direct action is required.
I have seen the longer video of this incident and in one segment there is another female being escorted out of the room who clearly puts her hand down the front of her low cut dress and takes something out. I don’t know what it was but it could have been anything.
So yes hindsight is wonderful and all seeing but when incidents occur in a short space of time it just ain’t there and let’s not forget that “if you have an honestly held belief that you or another, are in imminent danger, then you may use such force as is reasonable and necessary to avert that danger”. (Common Law R V Griffiths 1988).
So the question to be answered is was the level of force used reasonable and necessary? Unfortunately you or I don’t know what was in his mind at the time of the incident and what his perception of what the danger was.June 22, 2019 at 9:49 am #34325They showed a wider angle view this morning, of them entering and her making her way, slowly, around the table.
No rush, no threats, no-one else seemed worried. He had plenty of time to see her coming, it was not a “spur of the moment” action had she suddenly burst through a door and rushed the top table.
She passed a lot of people and no-one else felt compelled to do what he did and it wasn’t because they were cowering in fear. Simply pushing his chair back or standing up would have done the job.
June 22, 2019 at 9:53 am #34326Ha img seen it, my question is: whare was the security? He was way in his rights to man handle any preserved threat.
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It should of never got that far on the first place.
It’s a story about nothing, if there was no elections looming this wouldn’t of been such a big deal. I’ve seen a few of these type of situations with these private political events whis the same type of outcome, I don’t recall it ever being big news.
For me it’d a non event, the common folk shouldn’t of been there, and they got what they deserved.
Just to add, I’m no fan of thd tories, I have not love for them or desire to stick up for them for any polical reason. I’d say the same no matter the party members involved. Xits dangerous times and they shoidl of had security on the doors, after all they are vips (yuk), which makes them targets. They should of been shot before they got over the threshold. That may be a bit much, maybe just tasered.
Also i have nothing against protesting. Just do it in thd correct fashion. This to me makes them look tw-ts, not the polition that the press is pulling over coals now.
June 22, 2019 at 11:12 am #34330Sorry, but I do not agree with the Tory apologists who have posted,
Ed – that’s the last thing in this world that I could be accused of!!? As related by the events my son found himself in, it’s instinctive to react back for certain people.
women are becoming far more organised and militant in punishing any perceived chauvinistic actions.
The wife thinks that these ‘FemiNazis’ as she calls them actually do women a dis-service. Her words ( para-phrased )”We asked for equality and we should deal with it whatever circumstances it arrives under. You can’t cherry pick the scenario or the details!!”
Had it been a guy who had had his arm twisted behind his back and escorted out it wouldn’t have lasted more than a couple of news cycles. Bottom line they were trespassing into a private function with the intent to disrupt. Barring physical damage, they got what they deserved. They also got what they wanted – the full glare of publicity and public ‘sympathy’, which was why there were a very high ratio of women to men. On the footage of them running up the stairs, I only saw 2 guys dressed in DJ’s, the rest were women.
June 22, 2019 at 5:44 pm #34337I have just read a great book by a guy called Gary Bell: “Animal QC”. I intend to post about in Book Topics, so will not say much more here than ‘Heartily Recommended.”
Anyway, one of Gary’s cases was defending a bunch of Dog-fight breeders and users. Several dogs were used in this case, brought by the RSPCA and the police. All were injured and scarred, none could be rehomed as they were all trained for nothing else but killing other dogs, for ‘sport’ and financial gain. The defendant was convicted and jailed along with his partners in crime, despite Gary’s defence. As they were taking them down, the convicted crim learned that all the dogs were going to be put down.
“And the RSPCA call themselves animal lovers!” he shouted. I don’t think there could be a suitable answer to the ignorance and stupidity in that remark.
The same kind of stupidity that lets animals escape from testing laboratories, with nowhere to go, knowing no life outside the lab. That invades a chicken farm and letting all the chickens out, naming it as cruel, when all the chickens are free range during daytime, inside only at night. Happened near us, most of the chickens not recaptured, died.
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I'm out.June 23, 2019 at 9:01 pm #34354Reality check a bunch of possibly woman burst into a room playing a siren and announcing gloom and doom while one of them rushes the head of the table. What are you going to do?
Unfortunately, I’ve been in much more violent situations than that, and have never reacted that violently. She didn’t pop up behind him and surprise him, she walked the length of the table in full view before he grabbed her. There was no rushing on her part:
June 23, 2019 at 9:29 pm #34357I reqlldont see why anyone is bothered, he did nothing wrong. He stopped her and marched her out. I deal with much worse, in a more aggressive way about once a month.
She shouldn’t of been there and he done her zero harm. Grabbed her, controlled the situation and mar hef her out. I see no issue.
June 24, 2019 at 7:15 am #34366It is not what he did it is the way he did it that causes the problem. Using a choke hold is a totally ineffective way of dealing with a supposedly armed female. Every female (mainly Conservatives) that I have talked to were horrified by the incident and the way it was handled.
Theresa May’s unrelenting war on Police numbers is probably the main cause of both a lack of security and their ability to anticipate problems, especially perpetrators who shun the use of electronic communications. To my knowledge, the area I live in has lost all the experienced officers who knew the area, and were in touch with the rumour mill. A major incident can now only be dealt with by drawing in off-duty officers from the surrounding counties and results in delays and police who have difficulty in even finding their way around.
June 24, 2019 at 9:14 am #34370It is not what he did it is the way he did it that causes the problem. Using a choke hold is a totally ineffective way of dealing with a supposedly armed female. Anyone who saw Arya deal with the Night King knows who true that is.
There was absolutely no need to use that level of force, none. It’s the look on his face too.
June 24, 2019 at 9:29 am #34371No I don’t see it as accesessive force. She didn’t hey hurt, and she was marched out. Jon done.
Now if someone who new what they was doing graned her, she’d of need taken to the ground, put in an arm lock, picked up and marched out. Trust me, she would be feeing that still today.
For me it’s the press sensationalising a non story.
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