Anna Soubry

A few spelling mistakes! Sorry. Pity there is no option to edit a post after you send it.

John Bercow is concerned about abuse of female polirticians. Yet he abused Andrea Leadsom in the House of Commons!
Anna Soubry, like ALL other UK politicians, fails to understand that the voters did not ask them to debate leaving the EU. The voters INSTRUCTED the government to take us out of the EU. It was not a suggestion to parliament and all politicians to waste their breasth talking about it. The decision was made by the democratic majority, it was an INSTRUCTION to the government and to them alone...so nothing to do with individual politicians. The fact is that parliament has hijacked the referendum and turned that INSTRUCTION into a suggestion that they should debate the topic. Quite clearely they have usurped the power of the people...the sort of thing that traitors and fascists do in dodgy areas of the world...so Anna Soubury needs to understand why she is being called things she does not like...not forgetting that her own constuency voted LEAVE and that she sneers at "white working class" voters who "do not understand" the issue "as she does". The woman is arrigant, snobbish, sneering and beghaves like a demented harpy when she cannot get her own way.

Media outdoor interviews must not be terminated because of the actions of extream right wing Brexitiers. The foregoing would do huge damage to Britain's system of democratic free speech.

If the Media companies wish to carry out interviews in the above manner it is essential I feel that they are able to do so in the name of that free speech.

Whoops! Hear, not here!

The obsession with outdoor interviews has to be curbed. Granada TV have just had a poor half-frozen newsman standing on a bridge over the M58, in almost total darkness, talking about a tragic accident that happened this morning.
Apart from the wasteful cost of transporting the team there for the interview, we could scarcely here him for the rush-hour traffic noise.
The studio presenter then apologised for the poor sound quality!

I think the last time I was aware of this sort of level of anger and vitriol was the Poll Tax or perhaps the Miners’ Strike
Gransnetters in Scotland had to endure something similar around the time of the independence Referendum.
All very very regrettable.

Sadly the whole brexit scenario and the vicious propaganda of the right-wing tabloids have given permission for these hooligans to crawl out from under their stones and spew out their hatred.

Responsible leavers (if there are any) should condemn them.

Varian is right to draw peoples attention to the fact that 700,000 remain supporters marched through London without any public order problems whatsoever.

However, leave campaign demonstrations now seem to be dominated by appalling behaviour, drunkenness and (as we witnessed yesterday) extream physical threats to public figures who not share the warped view of Britain they hold in their minds.

Yesterday was more than heckling

I don't associate those type of thugs with anyone.
I'm sure if it wasn't brexit they would have some other axe to grind.

Public abuse and hate speech should never be acceptable. Ignorance and bigotry should not flourish. I am reminded of a case some years ago, where a doctor, in Wales, was hounded from her home, which was daubed with graffiti, because concerned locals didn't know the difference between paediatrician and paedophile.

Read my above post.

Those who say heckling has always gone on and it’s the same for all politicians really miss the point that women MPs are subject to worse threats and abuse than male MPs, these threats should be taken seriously and perpetrators should be dealt with harshly by the police. Are Brexit supporters really happy that these type of thugs are associated with them?

Sigh! Varian over 17 million people voted for Brexit.
The 100 who acted that way are probably EDL types.
The rest of us don’t need to go on marches.

You can't get away from the glaring inbalance between pro and anti brexit supporters.

700,000 anti brexit, pro EU supporters marched peacefully through London.

About 100 pro-brexit supporters tried to disrupt traffic on Waterloo Bridge, let off smoke bombs, attacked the police and now threaten MPs being interviewed by the media.

Just what I have been saying Crystal ( do the interviews indoors) it isn’t hard to do and was done until recently.

We mustn’t have double standards about this, JRM was treated badly by members of the public ( more than once)
And many politicians have been screamed at from crowds in the street and had eggs and flour thrown all over them.
If the public go too far, the police can arrest them.
I think all the street interviews surrounding Brexit should simply stop.

I don't think it is just about the MPs being interviewed on TV. These yobs are constantly filming themselves on their mobile phones and posting on social media. It seems this particular yob is trying to rival the so-called "Tommy Robinson" as a leader of the ultra-right extreme brexiters.

There are nasty EDL types who do treat women worse than men unfortunately. These vile thugs are trying to intimidate and harass. MPs such as AS are threatened with rape and murder and unfortunately we know that there are some nut cases who may try to carry it out. They should be removed and maybe for safety reasons interviews should be inside the building. Can’t be too hard to arrange.

It’s nothing to do with ‘their leadership’ or lack of.
McDonnell stated last year that he wanted no safe place for any Tory in the country and he wanted them heckled and harried and for left wing activists and the public to take direct action against them anywhere they went!
I ask, what sort of country would it be under his and Corbyn’s leadership!
I don’t believe that yelling or any pushing and shoving of an MP male or female should go on, but it does and has always done and is not new.

Those who have no problem with that mobs behaviour yesterday and say MP’s are use to being hecking and barracking,

Did you turn up to hear MP’s on the hustings forty yesrs ago? Yesterday was not heckling , I have heard Barbara Castle, Ny Bevan and many more on the hustings, they were heckled from the floor and could give as good as they got but they were not subjected to what took place yesterday.

I do think MP’s are now too fond of interviews on tv where the public can’t ask questions, thinking back to the last general election, all appearances were stage set.

Heckling is one thing, harassment and threats are quite another.

Well said maryeliza54. The actions of the leave leaders in their outright lies and also breaking the financial regulations of the referendum have given leave to these extream right-wing thugs to believe that any behaviour is acceptable in Britain at this point in time.

We have still seen no condemnation of yesterdays verbal and physical threats to Anna Soubry by such persons as Boris (the buffoon) Johnson or other leaders of the leave campaign despite now having more than twenty-four hours to state that condemnation.

I ask, what sort of place would Britain become under their leadership.

We tend to think so Jalima but has it really? It certainly has on social media and the newspapers, but has it ‘in reality’ become worse, we would have to study the past and recent past, to say with confidence that there is nastier heckling of MP’s from the general public now than at any other time.

I think MP's from all parties, whether they be male or female should be treated the same.

They cannot expect "respect" when their social media accounts are sometimes a vehicle for insults and bullying remarks towards others.

Saying that I do not condone violence in any way shape or form, and the fact that those people were allowed to get so close to AS is worrying, they could have had a knife or another weapon.