Senior RMT official suspended for saying he’d throw a party if Boris Johnson died

Chewbacca I simply give you the moral high ground then. Sit up there and look down on the rest of us. There aren't many who can do it, most of us have emotional and human reactions to things. And sometiimes those emotional and human reactions lead us to do or say things that others may disapprove of. I do not think celebrating the death of someone who has harmed you in any way impacts on that person. They are after all dead. I do think actually doing things which cause harm to another person is repugnant and immoral and if I say something others consider unacceptable to draw attention to that harm then so be it. Just ignoring or accepting the harm and keeping quiet is in my opinion far worse a moral crime.
And now I consider this man's remarks have taken up enough of my time.

paddyanne Sun 12-Apr-20 10:17:02

Its NOT a hate crime ,its an opinion .When Maggie Thatcher died there were parties in Scotland.Wrong I know but that woman destroyed lives and they samg the Witch is dead and were hopeful that another of the same kind wouldn't rise in her place
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Correct and I am sure most of us remember the desire by some posters to reunite over their ' hatred ' at that time too. It is a pattern of behaviour for many.

It appears in a certain section of the population death / hoping someone will die is celebrated by as a joyous occasion and positively willed.

The hyoicritic voices who think they belong to a' kind political force'.

Spot on Chewbacca .....and trisher your mealy mouthed post in response is exactly what I expected.
The far left do love humanity ( the huddled masses) but never appear to like actual people especially if they have different politics.
....and it’s not ‘the rest of us’ but just you trisher at least so far who is condoning his views.

One of my concerns about people who says it's ok to make repellent comments about others, is about the impact of that level of anger, on wider society as well as on the individual making the comments.
Steve Hedley sounds a repellant bully. I can't be the only person who googled to find out more about him and came across photographs of his former partner, with extensive facial bruising. She alleges he attacked her, he denies this. The incident was some time ago, he wasn't prosecuted. The former partner was working with him in the Union.

I loathed Thatcher and loathe her legacy. She was very old, frail and she died. I didn't need to celebrate that in any way. I don't understand why anyone would.

Well said Chewbacca

Chewbacca well said

trisher Chewbacca does not sit up on the moral high ground but is simply showing a degree of common decency which your posts do not seem to show:
Chewbacca I simply give you the moral high ground then. Sit up there and look down on the rest of us. There aren't many who can do it, most of us have emotional and human reactions to things.

If an emotional reaction is to celebrate someone's death, unless that person be someone who instigated the direct murder of millions, such as Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and now Assad, that is a strange reaction. Even then, the death of someone like that would bring relief to those living in terror under their regimes.

Iam64 that is interesting, so in all possibility a domestic abuser too.
Charming fellow.

He has been suspended

but not sacked - yet

I don't know who it was but someone had accused Boris's illness as being a " publicity stunt ". It was possibly in the Daily Mail online this last week.
What makes people say these things ? Anyone with half an eye could see how unwell the man was as he struggled on giving his daily reviews. Honestly, some people haven't got the sense they were born with.
Some horrible things have been said, but I suppose it's par for the course with some.

This whole pandemic has bought put the best in people, also the worst. Some of these posters have shown the hate within them endorcing the beneath contempt rantings of ' that man'. I do hope he is sacked.
Luckily they are in the tiny minority. The trouble is that hate carries on to their children and ruins their lives.

today theres a post onFB from a man in Liverpool who says his wife is in a nursing home,she has the virus ,he has been TOLD they will contact him when she dies .....the poor man is distraught .The politicians who have mishandled this from day one should be brought to justice when its over.
i certainly DONt have sympathy for Bojo ,he thinks of no one but himself and I cant see this "illness" that he has come through making a jot of a difference .My sympathy lies with the families of the thousands who are on record as dying and the thousands who haven't even been counted in the statistics.Note Boris and his GF are off to the country house.....bending the rules AGAIN!!

Like Catherine Calderwood ? and No 10 is a working office

No 10 has a flat which is big enough to live in and certainly bigger than a lot of people living in London have to put up with. But heyit's BJ he can go off where he likes and take his infection with him.
Just seen him saying the NHS is "powered by love" . And the two nurses he mentions are from an EU country and New Zealand. You couldn't make it up!!!

He lives in No. 11
I think Tony and Cherie swapped flats and had the larger No. 11 flat done out for them as they had 4 children and it has remained so ever since.

Does he still have an infection, it’s frightening people can be
release from hospital before clear.

Well, no, he didn't make it up even if you couldn't, and was making a point.

Oh come on Callistemon even you must see the irony in one of his nurses being from the EU and the other from New Zealand.
Anniebach No one really knows
One study from Hong Kong found the virus could be detected for 20 days or longer after the initial onset of symptoms in one-third of patients tested.
Another study from China found found the virus in a patients’ faecal samples five weeks after the first onset of symptoms.
But the detection of the virus doesn’t necessarily mean the person is infectious. We need more studies with larger sample sizes to get to the bottom of this question.

The man who will be told when his wife dies is in the same position as everyone else will be. I can’t find words to describe how terrible that is. By the way paddyanne, that’s no different than what the Johnson family were facing. If he had died, Mr Johnson would have died with no family members with him
The press reports said Carrie was at Chequers with symptoms. Of course that’s where the PM will go to recuperate. Maybe they will isolate separately there, as Prince Charles and his wife did. Mr J will need a decent amount of time to recuperate. I suspect there’s more chance Mr J will follow medical advice about isolation and convalescence than he did three weeks ago, before his brush with death.

Um, no.
Immigration has not been banned.

That was the point, I assumed.