My next constituency surgery will be taking place on Friday 15th October at Belfairs Methodist Church, 251 Eastwood Road North, Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 4NG.
To book an appointment please email amessd@parliament.uk or call 020 7219 3452 pic.twitter.com/aHhxWPrXXi
— Sir David Amess MP (@amessd_southend) October 12, 2021
BREAKING NEWS: Sir David Amess has died after being stabbed this afternoon
— Essex Echo (@Essex_Echo) October 15, 2021
This afternoon.
Via Essex Echo:
Member of parliament Sir David Amess has been stabbed several times at a constituency surgery in Leigh.
The Tory MP for Southend West was attacked at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh.
Essex Police has confirmed a man has been arrested at the scene and a knife was found.
Sir David Amess MP for Southend West dies after attack (Essex Echo)
Jesus that’s awful.
RIP
RIP
25 year old in custody allegedly
Awful tragedy.
The guy defended Harvey Weinstein, and was by all accounts a bit of a sleaze-ball himself.
Stupid, stupid comment.
It’s not obvious how Sara’s comment was stupid. Offering context is actually an effort to inform. It should not be assumed that by offering this context it is somehow the same as justifying violence or even murder. Were there some possibility that those closest to the deceased might encounter the comment then maybe it would be insensitive. The more likely thing is that people might be interested to know why was it this tory when so many might irk misfortune and for whom the first question isn’t … who?
Exactly. Not advocating killing, just saying that by dying he doesn’t leave the world worse off. The guy had blood on his hands, he voted for the Iraq war.
Kinda like this lad yeah?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/09/bloody-sunday-army-officer-killed-loden
“context” are you for bleedin’ real?
Nothing said adds context to the death of the man ffs, cop on.
Ah Sara
There’s trying to be edgy and then there’s just being a muppet
Not cool
That statement was withdrawn and blamed on a staffer. While disagreeing with the vast majority of his political beliefs, even holding many of them in utter contempt, I’d argue that violent attacks on political representatives are absolutely wrong.
Some of the toxic rhetoric levelled at public figures, up to and including calls for their execution, can pave the way for incidents like this.
Agreed, I hate Tories as much as the next man but killing them isn’t the answer.
An elected MP was stabbed to death while working for his constituents. That is the tragedy.
Do you have any personal details on the five murdered Norwegians? Perhaps in your eyes they ‘deserved it’?
Classic Sara. At times like this, if you have nothing good to say, perhaps say nothing at all. Really spiteful stuff from this commenter on here lately.
oul Kates not around at the moment to keep him in check innit
It’s Sara’s entire contribution, name-calling, demonising, sneering. What a waste of space, she really needs to just grow up.
Yeah, sleazeball.
https://twitter.com/E_K_Holmes/status/1449046903392509963
It’s at times like this Broadsheet really comes into its own as the unflushed toilet of internet forums.
Indeed. It’s an incendiary place.
The harassment of politicians begins with threats and can end in what happened in Britain today.
You’re a disgrace, Sara.
Horrible! RIP
Dreadful place the family are now in. RIP.
Five kids…
Someone’s getting a grief tinky-poo. You should go to the funeral. Although even Tory funerals probably draw a line at the unvaccinated.
Sara, you are a sociopath – zero empathy or understanding of complex human emotions.
Jaysus… pathetic.
That is shocking, may he RIP
The perpetrator is apparently a Somalian & his motivation was Islamic terrorism. If anyone thinks he was justified because of the victim’s political affiliation, they need to take a good look at themselves. What they’ll be seeing is an apologist for Islamic terrorism who insults the memory of the innocent victims of it’s atrocities.
So was the attack was in defiance of British foreign policy or home policy on Islamic citizens, one wonders.
Either way, comparisons are already being made between this and well-known Tory assassinations by the IRA.
But Jo Cox…that was a crazed killer, nothing to do with political or religious motives.
Utter nonsense, He was a paid up member of a fascist party.
https://powerbase.info/images/thumb/e/e2/Britain_First_Thomas_Mair_Northern_Brigade.jpg/450px-Britain_First_Thomas_Mair_Northern_Brigade.jpg
Why would anybody want to be a tory?
You’d have to ask charger. But nobody wants to.
You seem obsessed by Charger.
He must have pwned you baaaaaad son.
Heh,heh,heh.
Scumbags to the Left,
Torys to the Right,
Here I am… leaning away from that first shower of fupps