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Brexiters' language worsens threats against MPs - Nicky Morgan
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Cash, a leading member of the European Research Group of strongly pro-Brexit Conservatives, accused May of having made an “abject surrender” to the EU, talking also of “appeasement” and “capitulation”.
Cash wrote: “How low can we sink with the prime minister making us crawl on our hands and knees, not only to the EU, but to Germany and France?”
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Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Morgan condemned the article, saying: “This kind of language is not helpful. It’s not the kind of language that our councillors, or frankly any normal people, would use.”
Asked whether she saw any connection between such phrases and the threats received by some MPs, Morgan replied: “Yes, I do.” Such comments, she said, were “stoking up other people who are often sitting at home and watching this stuff, and it gets them really, really angry and fired up, and then they will say things that they would never say face to face”.
Cash wrote: “How low can we sink with the prime minister making us crawl on our hands and knees, not only to the EU, but to Germany and France?”
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Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Morgan condemned the article, saying: “This kind of language is not helpful. It’s not the kind of language that our councillors, or frankly any normal people, would use.”
Asked whether she saw any connection between such phrases and the threats received by some MPs, Morgan replied: “Yes, I do.” Such comments, she said, were “stoking up other people who are often sitting at home and watching this stuff, and it gets them really, really angry and fired up, and then they will say things that they would never say face to face”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/22/brexiters-language-worsens-threats-against-mps-nicky-morgan
And this is why we can never move forward on Brexit.... even when the nutters are given room to breathe they still continue with the nasty bollocks rhetoric that is designed to divide us. Democracy stealers.