Ukip MEP calls for death penalty for suicide bombers

Fretwired

A former Ukip MEP has demanded the death penalty be introduced – for suicide bombers.

Janice Atkinson, who stood for Ukip in Folkstone and Hythe before becoming an independent politician, made the comments following the Manchester terror attack which claimed 22 lives on Monday night.

Atkinson said: ‘Much needs to be done to eradicate this evil.

‘But there is one simple step which we can take now: we must bring back the death penalty.

Not sure she's thought this through ..... ;-)

http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/24/ex-ukip-mep-calls-for-death-penalty-for-suicide-bombers-6658334/?ito=facebook

Jalapeno

Right wing nutter behaves like a right wing nutter shock !

impmann

"You're a bit thick, aren't you" said everyone. Loudly.

Heartfeltdawn

I'm all for it just as long as we can bring back public lashings for fraudsters. 

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/ukip-aide-avoids-jail-for-102081/

Snap

I saw the UKIP party election broadcast this week. Laughably bad. Its like something the Comic Strip would have done in the 80s. Its worth looking up and watching for the laugh. Really.

Drew_TNBD

Fucking arsehole.

Winny_Pooh

Hysterical attention seeking. We'd all be safer if they eradicate driving

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_Road_Casualties_Great_Britain

Winny_Pooh

dbl post

RandallFlagg

To be fair she doesn't actually say she wants the death penalty for suicide bombers in the article but for terrorist crimes, that's the Metro taking artistic licence with the truth by adding a ridiculous headline.  

EricTheWeary

RandallFlagg said:

To be fair she doesn't actually say she wants the death penalty for suicide bombers in the article but for terrorist crimes, that's the Metro taking artistic licence with the truth by adding a ridiculous headline.  

...and she's no longer in UKIP either.

I'm okay with the death penalty as long as we use it for MEPs who fiddle their expenses. Applying it to terrorist conspirators and creating martyrs might be a bit counter productive.

NelsonP

This is one of my favourite headlines from recent years...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html?amp

Wazmeister

That'll stop em...

scrumhalf

NelsonP said:

This is one of my favourite headlines from recent years...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html?amp

What percentage thought that the Independent was actually independent and commercially viable?

TTony

Putting aside the let's-misquote-something-for-a-headline lazy journalism ...

Whether you agree with their cause or not, UKIP was - for a few years - a highly effective protest movement that garnered significant public support and ultimately achieved their objective.

(They did that in a way that Corbyn will never understand or be able to emulate).

But, having done their thing, UKIP should really now disappear before it becomes any more similar to the good old Monster Raving Loony Party and the target of even more public ridicule.  The longer that they stay around becoming ever more ridiculous, the greater the chance than they'll be remembered for being ridiculous rather than for being the most effective protest movement since the Suffragettes.

And I'll repeat, that's no judgement on the cause itself, just on their success in achieving it and the subsequent implosions.

quarky

Winny_Pooh said:

Hysterical attention seeking. We'd all be safer if they eradicate driving

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_Road_Casualties_Great_Britain

I *HATE* that kind of argument. I was riding my bike yesterday, went around a left-hander, the bike slipped into neutral while approaching the corner and there was a truck coming the way. Luckily, I managed to kick it down a gear, pass through the skidding back wheel, and get the bike pointed back into the corner in time. If I had died though, that would be my fault. It would be doing something that I chose to do, even if I was hit head on my a drunk driver. It is a risk I knowingly take.

I don't buy for one second that getting fucking shot or blown up on the tube, in a crowd, on a plane, or whatever is REMOTELY similar.

Saying it is, is just apologism from people who should know better.

Legionreturns

NelsonP said:

This is one of my favourite headlines from recent years...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html?amp

Unsurprising, considering news networks and print media no longer report fact. They just do opinion pieces and are more concerned with shaping and influencing the news, than reporting it. 

earwighoney

I'm not surprised by such a statement.  As archaic and barbaric as the death penalty is, many are still in favour of. 

Legionreturns

earwighoney said:

I'm not surprised by such a statement.  As archaic and barbaric as the death penalty is, many are still in favour of. 

Indeed... Just over half apparently

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/3802

That really surprised me

WezV

Legionreturns said:

earwighoney said:

I'm not surprised by such a statement.  As archaic and barbaric as the death penalty is, many are still in favour of. 

Indeed... Just over half apparently

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/3802

That really surprised me

Just over half... for murder.   I looked at the link expecting to see over half supporting it "in some cases" or some other result from a vague question.

axisus

er .... what, is she talking a retrospective punishment?

Fretwired

axisus said:

er .... what, is she talking a retrospective punishment?

Hang the body parts from Traitors Gate at the Tower of London for the ravens to feed on ... a new grisly tourist attraction.