Is this how MPs behave?

How could we find out?

He may have been removed by a security firm Anniebach, but did any party members come to his support? Was the firm not engaged by the Labour Party?

Ha! There is some justice after all! Iain Dale is to receive a caution:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24285711

Noooo, not correcting you Ana, defending me, I was at that conference and I didn't push the chap out

I add a smiley

I said in my post 13.14 Ian Dale is open about his sexuality.

He is one of the newspaper reviewers on Sky News (also a commentator on many progs) and when he is with Anna Botting and Jaqui Smith he has a right old twinkle about him.

I like him because if he thinks Labour, Tory, Lib Dem, UKIP etc. are wrong he will say so. Quite rightly. In other words not a politically partisan commentator.

He was wrong in his actions, I don't think anybody defended what he did. If you bring up the fact he was a Tory to try and make a point, don't be surprised when that point is bashed back with fair comment.

Right wing, left wing or raving loonie, a thug is a thug.

He has apologised unreservedly.

I was pleased to read that and I thought it was a reflection of the character I had hoped I had observed in him.

Mr. Dale's apology does seem heartfelt and genuine. We have all done/said things we shouldn't. rueful

For goodness sake, he apologised because his job was on the line - he didn't just knock the man down , he then wrote a blog defending his behaviour. If you were pushed over by a lout, would you think an apology unreserved or otherwise was enough - I bloody wouldn't regardless of the political persuasion if the person concerned. My point is how right wingers rush to his defence

I think John Prescot's punch was in response to someone throwing an egg at him. Not fully justifiable but to some extent understandable.

To be fair to John Prescott (and believe me I don't find that an easy thing to do) he didn't know that it was an egg. All he felt was something hit him....it could just as easily have been a fist or a knife and he reacted in self defence.