Maybe it was the same metaphorical ditch that Boris preferred to be dead in rather than asking the EU for another extension (which he did end up doing).Or maybe it was like Boris' comments about Muslims looking like letterboxes. Just a joke. Banter! You snowflakes are just all too serious!> Is wishing someone dead acceptable to you Alexander?Is it acceptable to you Sue?http://appasp.putneysw15.com/server/app/forum/ShowMessage.asp?ID=1349273Sue Hammond: "I wouldn't want any money to be wasted by locking them up. Just hang them."Terrorists are different? Convicted murderers are different? You can't put St. Michael of Gove in the same pigeon hole as them!Many people consider Gove complicit in the austerity that is quoted as being responsible for somewhere between 30,000 and 120,000 early deaths."In 2017, the Royal Society of Medicine said that government austerity decisions in health and social care were likely to have resulted in 30,000 deaths in England and Wales in 2015."(If you trust that well known lefty lobby group the, oh, scratch that, it was the Royal Society of Medicine.)Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme#MortalityUnlike you I don't wish anyone dead, and I certainly don't support capital punishment. I'm far too liberal for that.As we've seen, some people do though. If only the current Home Secretary hadn't been on record saying she supported capital punishment: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-death-penalty-capital-punishment-home-secretary-boris-johnson-a9037651.htmlOf course she claims she doesn't and hasn't ever, and that any time she might have said it it was taken out of context or "may have been clipped".Which is a bit tricky given one of the quotes was on national television (on Question Time no less) - from the same link above:-"Appearing on the BBC’s Question Time in 2011, Ms Patel said: “I do actually think when we have a criminal justice system that continuously fails in this country and where we have seen murderers, rapists and people who have committed the most abhorrent crimes in society, go into prison and then are released from prison to go out into the community to then re-offend and do the types of crime they have committed again and again.“I think that’s appalling. And actually on that basis alone I would actually support the reintroduction of capital punishment to serve as a deterrent, because I do think we do not have enough deterrents in this country for criminals.”She also told the Mail on Sunday in 2006, the year she was chosen as a Conservative candidate: “If you had the ultimate punishment for the murder of policemen and other heinous crimes, I am sure it would act as a deterrent. We must send a clear signal to people that crime doesn’t pay. The punishment must fit the crime and yes, I do support capital punishment.”"I can see how it is so easy to take those quotes out of context.
Alex Greenbank ● 2531d