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‘Death threats every single day’: MPs on effect of Brexit vote
theguardian.com ^ | March 5, 2019 | Dan Sabbagh

Posted on 03/05/2019 6:24:26 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

MPs have warned that Brexit has coarsened public debate to the point where they regularly receive death threats and other forms of intimidation via social media and elsewhere, with many using panic buttons for their own safety.

One MP, who asked not to be named, said she still received “death threats every single day” despite heightened security measures. They were stepped up after the murder of the Labour backbencher Jo Cox in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum.

Rupa Huq, the Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, said she had received an email over the weekend suggesting that she “return to Bangladesh to ponder your life if you do not come to your senses over Brexit shortly”.

After calling Huq “a miserable, stinking, filthy EU whore”, the anonymous author told the MP: “You should abandon your new referendum anti-democratic rhetoric and either vote for the government deal or not obstruct a no-deal exit.”

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TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit

1 posted on 03/05/2019 6:24:26 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Eddisbury Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has to carry a personal alarm that attracts an armed police response after receiving rape threats due to her soft Brexit stance.

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/cheshire-mp-must-carry-alarm-15926007


2 posted on 03/05/2019 6:29:41 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It’s getting nasty...

The Brexit death cult that’s killing everything good about Britain
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-death-cult-thats-killing-14084832


3 posted on 03/05/2019 6:43:16 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Britain’s House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has urged police to bring Brexit bigots to book.

Describing threats to MPs as “a burgeoning phenomenon”, Mr Bercow said allowing intimidation to continue would be the “death of democracy”.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/speaker-urges-police-to-bring-brexit-bigots-to-book-908712.html


4 posted on 03/05/2019 6:47:58 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Stamps clue as Irish police join investigation into London explosives

https://news.sky.com/story/stamps-clue-as-irish-police-join-probe-into-london-explosives-11655852


5 posted on 03/05/2019 6:54:16 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The filthy pigs in Brussels,Berlin and Dublin who are pulling the strings here are absolutely *loving* this.It shouldn’t be a surprise that it’s an East German and an Indian faggot who are the center of all this.


6 posted on 03/05/2019 7:05:24 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

These politician have a lot of cheek. They were told to quit the EU and didn’t. They haven’t been shot so they’re just posturing.


7 posted on 03/05/2019 7:13:01 PM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They had better watch it or they’ll have another peasants revolt on their hands.


8 posted on 03/05/2019 7:18:35 PM PST by crz
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Just more posturing by the Yurp 5th columnists in the UK.

March 29th approaches....


9 posted on 03/06/2019 5:52:58 AM PST by FLT-bird
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