Tory Scum

[SueEllen]

No attempt to use Libel laws, which means it must be true…

That would involve IDS spending his own money to get money from someone who has none.

[SueEllen]

Radical Haslam of Salford.
I wonder how he's going to react to abuse.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/radical-...alSubdomain=uk

"Skills" include "performance poetry"

[AtW]

No attempt to use Libel laws, which means it must be true…

[Zigenare]

It's legal to call IDS that.

I heard this on the wireless last night but only can find a Fail or Xpress link.

Synopsis:
- calling him Tory Scum wasn't offensive and intimidating.Probably because there were no death threats, homophobic, religious, sexist or racial abuse unlike what some other MPs get.
- the traffic come thrower got off because the CCTV images used as evidence where very poor quality si he couldn't be identified.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ters-free.html

Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith was last night 'astonished' after protesters who harangued him and his wife as 'Tory scum' walked free from court.

A third suspect accused hitting Sir Iain with a traffic cone was also acquitted.

Paul Goldspring, chief magistrate for England and Wales, cleared two defendants accused of intimidating Sir Iain, his wife and a friend during last year's Conservative Party conference, saying their behaviour was a 'reasonable' use of their right to protest.


He said he turned around after a traffic cone was 'smacked down' on his head to tell the group: 'You are pathetic.'
The 68-year-old said yesterday's decision sent out a message that politicians were 'fair game'.

He told the Daily Mail: 'Seemingly you can now walk down the street screaming abuse at me, and your right to protest trumps my right not to be intimidated. No matter how threatening the behaviour of protesters is, no action will be taken against them.'

Mr Goldspring acquitted a man named as Radical Haslam, 29, of Salford, and Ruth Wood, 51, of Cambridge, of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

Former Greenpeace activist Elliot Bovill, 32, was also cleared of the traffic cone attack due to a lack of evidence.

Mr Goldspring said the case against Haslam and Wood centred on the use of the phrase 'Tory scum' as they followed Sir Iain and the two women.

He said using that phrase was 'both insulting and pejorative'.

But he accepted their behaviour was 'reasonable' in the context of Articles 10 and 11 of the Human Rights Act – the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association.

Radical Haslam of Salford.
I wonder how he's going to react to abuse.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/radical-...alSubdomain=uk

[SueEllen]

It's legal to call IDS that.

I heard this on the wireless last night but only can find a Fail or Xpress link.

Synopsis:
- calling him Tory Scum wasn't offensive and intimidating.Probably because there were no death threats, homophobic, religious, sexist or racial abuse unlike what some other MPs get.
- the traffic come thrower got off because the CCTV images used as evidence where very poor quality si he couldn't be identified.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ters-free.html

Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith was last night 'astonished' after protesters who harangued him and his wife as 'Tory scum' walked free from court.

A third suspect accused hitting Sir Iain with a traffic cone was also acquitted.

Paul Goldspring, chief magistrate for England and Wales, cleared two defendants accused of intimidating Sir Iain, his wife and a friend during last year's Conservative Party conference, saying their behaviour was a 'reasonable' use of their right to protest.

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He said he turned around after a traffic cone was 'smacked down' on his head to tell the group: 'You are pathetic.'
The 68-year-old said yesterday's decision sent out a message that politicians were 'fair game'.

He told the Daily Mail: 'Seemingly you can now walk down the street screaming abuse at me, and your right to protest trumps my right not to be intimidated. No matter how threatening the behaviour of protesters is, no action will be taken against them.'

Mr Goldspring acquitted a man named as Radical Haslam, 29, of Salford, and Ruth Wood, 51, of Cambridge, of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

Former Greenpeace activist Elliot Bovill, 32, was also cleared of the traffic cone attack due to a lack of evidence.

Mr Goldspring said the case against Haslam and Wood centred on the use of the phrase 'Tory scum' as they followed Sir Iain and the two women.

He said using that phrase was 'both insulting and pejorative'.

But he accepted their behaviour was 'reasonable' in the context of Articles 10 and 11 of the Human Rights Act – the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association.