MP Mark Field grabs female protester by throat

Appalled by the reaction to this. People justifying and defending violence against women - why aren’t i surprised?

Gosh he did that with practiced ease didn't he?

Anyone who watches that will think "Oh oh..., not the first time."

I didn't. I thought he reacted as someone would if they thought there could be a security threat.

She was clearly walking past him and did not look threatening at all in her posh frock and sash.

Apologies DrSusan I missed that you had posted that link.

Omg - that 'hold' on Jeremy Hunt's wife

Agree totally with skint

You aound like idiots tbh.

I completely agree Juells, I thought the same thing.

And everyone just watched it happen, not a single person helped her.

That’s exactly the problem, nice bunch of politicians we have running this country. Hammond didn’t even want to acknowledge such drama was going on until someone warned him it was looking bad for him to continue to ignore.

We are sleepwalking into a dangerously intolerant callous society.

Anyone who watches that will think "Oh oh..., not the first time."

Exactly my thoughts.

And yes, it definitely looked like she was trying to walk past him and he was like 'no woman gets past me like this'.

Thera a picture of him kissing the wife of Jeremy Hunt, which is also appalling, look how he’s
holding her!

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.metro.news/mp-mark-field-hugs-jeremy-hunts-wife-in-animated-embrace/1594207/amp/

Nasty, nasty man.

I doubt he would have done it to a man SEmummy, especially not a man that he genuinely thought was armed.

And tbh invoking the murder of Jo Cox to justify Field's actions just shows you've not really thought it through. There are similarities, but not the ones you're thinking of.

He looks very comfortable slamming a woman up against a wall and gripping her on the back of the neck like she's a naughty puppy

This.

He obviously felt entitled to do this because she was a woman. He literally looks like someone who is teaching 'the feisty little woman' a lesson. I don't think there is any way he would have done this, in this way, if she were a bloke. And I'm not sure he would have done it if he really thought she was armed either.

He didn't grab her by the throat though. Hyperbole helps no one.

If a load of men gatecrashed a WI meeting to cause trouble

I missed this first time round...

It was the ease and speed with which he reacted that struck me. Instant aggression towards a woman, and manhandling her as if she were a child, by the back of the neck.

Anyone who watches that will think "Oh oh..., not the first time."

MrsTerryimagine

I can’t believe some of the things I’ve read on here.

We definitely do not need more men like him. I asked dh what he would have done in the same situation, he would have blocked her path but not have touched her.

She was not going to up to him, she was walking past him so the claim of self defence is bullshit. The look on his face was disturbing, he was angry not scared. He pushed her into the column then squeezed the back of her neck as he marched her out

He says he deeply regrets his actions. I’d say he deeply regrets it was caught on camera and deeply regrets he didn’t get the reaction he wanted.

When looking for news this morning of what had happened to him after this assault (and it is an assault, I can't believe some people here are defending it) I found this article:

www.metro.news/mp-mark-field-hugs-jeremy-hunts-wife-in-animated-embrace/1594207/.

Is this how most men greet a colleague's wife? I'd say Mark Field has form.

No one marched that fella who gave Theresa May a P45 out by the neck - who knew what he might have been holding? No one did anything about the aggressively shouting man who disrupted the launch of Esther McVey's leadership bid - who knew if he would attack her? Both of those situations were a million times more risky than a few women in long dresses and high heels. Statistically, men commit violence and women do not. As far as I can see, Field's behaviour is just another indefensible example of MVAW.

He did grab her by the scruff

But there was absolutely no need to do that as other posters have said

Its assault as far as im concerned, victim blaming to say she she deserved it and quite obviously he wouldn’t do it to anyone he actually though was a threat

Im assuming all the ‘it was only her scruff’ haven’t actually been grabbed by the scruff of their necks ...it fucking hurts and your average man would more than likely be putting pressure on her throat

If this was a man then we would not be battering an eyelid.

But the whole point is that he would be Very unlikely to have done that to a man, because a man would most likely have the strength to resist. My husband is of average height and build and strength and I can't imagine anyone being able shove him aside as easily as that.

battering an eyelid

Interesting typo

after they have just broken out from an angry group They were a group of women deliberately dressed in thin, armless bright red dresses talking over Hammond, demanding he reconsider the UK policy on climate control.

Not really dangerous... they seemed to have set out to make themselves look very distinctive (Handmaids etc) and with the style of dresses quite vulnerable and obviously not hiding anything.

They were irritating, obstructive but not violent, they didn't even seem angry, just loud and determined.

I am not saing she shouldn't have been stopped, but that his actions were disproportionately angry and aggressive.

This aged well