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Breaking: U.K. MP Mike Amesbury JAILED for 10 weeks for punching constituent in street
BBC News ^
| Feb 24
| BBC News
Posted on 02/24/2025 5:04:40 AM PST by RandFan
The former Labour now independent MP is sentenced to 10 weeks in prison.
'Necessary punishment' says magistrate
The magistrate said the immediate custodial sentence was "necessary both as a punishment and a deterrent".
The MP was also ordered to pay the victim's costs and was then escorted from the dock by ushers.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: uk
Needless to say prison means the seat becomes vacant and there will be a special election ...
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posted on
02/24/2025 5:04:40 AM PST
by
RandFan
To: RandFan
...punching constituent in street... What sort of constituent has a street?
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posted on
02/24/2025 5:07:51 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: All
Actually, it will likely happen (but not 100%). Prison sentence allows for a recall petition
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posted on
02/24/2025 5:08:29 AM PST
by
RandFan
To: All
Farage’s Reform party came 2nd in this district at the last election.
They were a long way behind from memory and need a big swing but anything can happen in a special election.
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posted on
02/24/2025 5:10:23 AM PST
by
RandFan
To: GingisK
Bitumen, maybe. Or pebbles.
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posted on
02/24/2025 5:24:17 AM PST
by
Jonty30
(Groundhogs don't falsify their predictions for grant money, whereas climate scientists do. )
To: RandFan
If he had insulted mad mo, well he’d be thrown in the gulag forever!
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posted on
02/24/2025 6:09:49 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(No American money or lives for Europe’s censorious, socialist, anti-democratic islamophiles!!!)
To: RandFan
Becoming ‘Independent’ as its price.
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posted on
02/24/2025 6:23:21 AM PST
by
exPBRrat
To: GingisK
LOL Next time, kick him in the back alley!
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posted on
02/24/2025 7:46:27 AM PST
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: RandFan
MPs must restrict punching people to other MPs!
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posted on
02/24/2025 8:00:43 AM PST
by
Jumpmaster
(U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
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