What happened in the House of Commons tonight?

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I'm struggling to understand what is going on and would be grateful is someone can explain to me in simple terms.

Why were Labour worried about the safety of MPs?

Why were the SNP unhappy?

Why were the Tories unhappy?

What's likely to happen next?

Are MPs who don't take a Pro-Palestinian stance really putting their lives at risk?

You think that the Mayor of London is being controlled by his mates who are Islamists?

Where do you live @User8646382 ?

Half the problem is the deliberately confusing language - many people think that a TW is actually female and vice versa - which of course is the intention.

Make it clear that a TW is a male who has mostly not undergone any surgery or hormone treatment and you will get very different answers.

This is Hoyle's statement

I made a judgement call that didn't end up in the position where I expected it to. I regret it.

'I apologise to the SNP and I apologise to the House. I made a mistake. We do make mistakes. I own up to mine'

He says threats to MPs are 'absolutely frightening'

'I have a duty of care that I will carry out to protect people. It is the protection that led me to make a wrong decision. But what I do not apologise is the risk that is being put on all members. I do not want anything to happen again.'

What are you questioning?

Sadly, death threats have been happening for a while.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/18/violent-threats-against-mps-commonplace-report-warns

I think Diane Abbott has been particularly inundated with threats and abuse for a long time?

ETA link:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/05/diane-abbott-more-abused-than-any-other-mps-during-election

I know you’re not asking me that - and I’ve said that Anderson is rightly suspended for his comment - but I do believe that the arrangements, routing and policing of these demonstrations needs to be changed.

There should never have been any reason - although actually a pretext - for Labour or anyone else to worry about safety from the mob of ‘pro-Palestine’.

Lots of them receive threats. And of course two MPs have been murdered in the last decade.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/24/mps-given-bodyguards-as-extremism-threat-rises/

That is behind a paywall for me, blossomtoes.

Sorry. 😔

I live in London and I own a nursery, so I have a lot of contact with the Met and the local authority. If I said what I had seen and experienced in the last five years, you wouldn’t believe me. You would call me a ‘Reform voter’, like the other charming commenter above.

But I don’t have any political affiliation. I am just an ordinary person, utterly aghast - and very frightened - by the things I have witnessed.

@User8646382 and you have seen things that prove that Sadiq Khan is involved?

No, and I didn’t say I had. I said I don’t have access to the information that Lee Anderson has.

I think that if Lee Anderson had any kind of information, he'd have done better to bring it out through proper Parliamentary channels rather than spouting racist rants. Of course it may be that he's too stupid to do that - anyone who thinks you can cook a nutritious meal for 30p a head in the middle of a CoL crisis doesn't have the brains of a goldfish - but I'm rather more inclined to think that this is just another typical anti-Islam rant from a very unpleasant human being and that in fact he has absolutely no evidence. Your faith in the man is misplaced.

OK, whatever you say.

He's just a boring, run-of-the-mill racist.

Secret information conspiracy theory bollocks.

Couldn't agree more. People are so quick to believe nonsense these days.

So what are you doing about it?

What have you witnessed? What is frightening you?

Police refusing to investigate crimes. Social workers refusing to take referrals. And that’s just for starters.

Actually, let me amend that slightly. Social workers refusing to take code red referrals.

How does that justify Anderson's comment?

"the Islamists have got control of Sadiq Khan, they've got control of London."

I don’t know. What do you think?

I think it is racism

You?

Yeah whatever.
Giant lizard people are also running the world and using nanobot vaccines to track us all.