Quote of the day 27th September 2017

"Threatening to kill someone merely because their opinions annoy you is wrong.

"It doesn’t matter if those threats are against Diane Abbott, or Jess Phillips, or Anna Soubry, or Nigel Farage, it is never acceptable to settle a political argument by threatening to hang one’s opponent or harm their children. Belittling and refusing to believe those on the receiving end of such threats, or contriving lame excuses for them, is if anything almost more depressing, because it legitimises violence and emboldens the genuinely dangerous."

"It’s embarrassing even to have to spell out something so basic, but people have a right to enter politics without fear for their lives and journalists have a right to do their jobs – to challenge, question, hold people to account and sometimes doubtless annoy – without being bullied into silence."

"So stop asking who Laura Kuenssberg thinks she is, wandering around Brighton with her security detail; start asking what we have become as a country that she should need one."

(Gaby Hinsliffe, from an article in the Guardian about the fact that the BBC felt they had to provide their political editor Laura Kuenssberg with a bodyguard while she has been at Labour Party Conference this week.)

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