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John McDonnell [UK Labour MP] jokes that he would have liked to have assassinated Thatcher
Guardian ^
| 7 June 2010
| Hélène Mulholland, Allegra Stratton and agencies
Posted on 06/07/2010 12:34:51 PM PDT by matt1234
John McDonnell, one of the Labour leadership contenders, joked today that he wished he could go back in time to the 1980s and "assassinate Thatcher".
The MP for Hayes and Harlington, who was Ken Livingstone's deputy at the Greater London council in the early 1980s, insisted later that his comment about Lady Thatcher, the former Conservative prime minister, was made as a "joke and it went down as a joke".
McDonnell, a staunch leftwinger who has earned a reputation as one of the party's leading backbench rebels, made his comment at the Labour leadership hustings organised by the Labour-affiliated GMB union at its annual conference in Southport this afternoon.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: labourmp; thatcher; tolerantliberal; typicalliberal; uk
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posted on
06/07/2010 12:34:52 PM PDT
by
matt1234
To: matt1234
from the bill maher and wanda sykes schoo; of “comedy”
2
posted on
06/07/2010 12:42:49 PM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
To: matt1234
How unfunny.
The rhetoric of the left is going to take them someplace they don't want to go. They don't have the stomach for it.
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posted on
06/07/2010 1:14:12 PM PDT
by
Nepeta
To: matt1234
John McDonnell - you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
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posted on
06/07/2010 1:53:31 PM PDT
by
ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
To: matt1234
Yeah, there’s nothing that tickles the funny bone quite like a good assassination joke.
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posted on
06/07/2010 2:13:21 PM PDT
by
Nevermore
(...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
To: matt1234
Gee, Alan Grayson has a British twin.
Who knew?
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posted on
06/07/2010 4:52:46 PM PDT
by
PalmettoMason
(The shattered skulls of tyrants should be used for traction under the boots of justice. T. Nugent)
To: matt1234
Typical liberal.
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posted on
06/07/2010 4:54:27 PM PDT
by
Oceander
(The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
To: matt1234
I don’t find that funny one bit.
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posted on
06/08/2010 8:25:51 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
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