Muslim Mob Intimidates British Parliament. By Fraser Nelson.
The fear of being seen as against a ceasefire was, in many cases, a fear for personal safety. In the Commons it was a Tory backbencher, Paul Bristow, who made the most arresting point. … he also felt personally at risk in his Peterborough constituency because he was seen to be on Israel’s side.
“Because people misrepresented my position, someone suggested on social media that they would show my wife a real man,” he told MPs. “Someone else suggested that they would attack me and my family.” In other words, voting against a ceasefire would mean a credible threat of violence from extremists.
The murder of Sir David Amess at the hands of Ali Harbi Ali permanently changed the mood in the House of Commons. Ali had tracked two Tory MPs — Michael Gove and Mike Freer — as potential targets before he settled on his victim. …
I’ve spoken to MPs who put it even more emphatically than Bristow. “It’s not a protest outside my house that I worry about, it’s the safety of my children,” said one. Another says he worries about being attacked on his journey back from the airport, which he never varies.
Freer himself decided to stand down after his North London office was set on fire. That is now thought to be the work of two homeless people who had earlier set a restaurant ablaze, but Freer had been targeted by a group calling themselves “Muslims Against Crusades”. The destruction of his office seemed to fit a theme.
So it wasn’t just Starmer who had begged the Speaker to break with convention and let Labour vote for a ceasefire in its own language. Individual MPs had also pleaded for him to do so, mentioning their own personal safety — and that of their staff and family. …
To bend Commons procedures as a result of threats of violence is to let democracy be shaped by intimidation. Rather than make MPs safer, it can do the opposite: if MPs are seen to respond to such pressure, they can expect more of it.
The Muslim mob outside. By Nick Gutteridge.
Police stood by as the slogan “From the river to the sea” was projected onto Parliament on Wednesday night …
Andrew Percy, a Tory backbencher, raised concerns after pro-Palestinian protesters beamed the slogan onto the Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben.
The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism said the projection of “genocidal language” onto Parliament was “a wake-up call for Britain”.
Police officers were present in large numbers at the demonstration in Parliament Square but decided not to take action. The Metropolitan Police later said it could not intervene because broadcasting a slogan onto Parliament was not a criminal offence unless the message broke the law, which officers did not believe was the case.
A wrong pronoun can land you in jail for hate speech, but calling for the genocide of Jews in massive writing on the side of Parliament house is ok? Strange English values indeed, how times have changed. Maybe they are just afraid of the Muslim mob.
The left’s solution: Uncontrolled immigration and more welfare.
