Posted on 06/07/2010 9:13:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Labour leadership candidate John McDonnell said yesterday he would 'assassinate' Margaret Thatcher if he could go back to the 1980s.
The left-wing MP made the outrageous claim at a hustings as he tried to win over union activists - who hold a third of the votes for the party leadership.
Mr McDonnell said he had once been asked in a warm-up question on the BBC's Any Questions what he would do if he found himself in an Ashes To Ashes situation – a reference to the time-travelling TV series where a policewoman finds herself transported back to the 1980s.
To applause from the audience in Southport, Merseyside, he said that he would have liked to go back to that era and ‘assassinate Thatcher’.
The MP for Hayes and Harlington in West London - who served as Ken Livingstone’s deputy at the Greater London Council - insisted his comments were ‘a joke and it went down as a joke’.
But remarks have been condemned.
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I suppose if a lot of us really said what we wanted......
Every now and then the leftist gives us an indication of just how close to the surface the murdering radical in each of them really is.
Most western political assassins were leftists.
McDonnell is a punk. What else would you call someone whose highest form of wit and courage is shooting a woman in the back?
about as sharp as a sack full of wet mice
Er, would the Brits call this a hate crime if Maggie weren’t conservative? Or if she were a mooselimb?
No WONDER the left is all about disarming people... they project a lot... What THEY would do to others is why they want to disarm those others, before we MIGHT do it to them. And why I will NEVER disarm, even though I did lose all my fine weaponry in that boating accident some time ago... great pity it was. Now I have to figure out the money to replace stuff!!!
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