Warlike rhetoric and subtle threats of violence against MPs by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson drew a furious response and threatened to overwhelm the return of Westminster this week. The London parliament, back in action on Wednesday after Johnson’s attempt to shut it down was declared illegal by the Supreme Court, witnessed some of the most rancorous exchanges in living memory. Unbelievably, the British PM warned that opposition MPs could only be ‘safe’ if Britain’s departure from the EU went ahead on October 31. The comments came as friends of the late Jo Cox, murdered by a right-wing Brexiteer fanatic in 2016, protested at the increasingly violent rhetoric of the Tory extreme right. Johnson was criticised for his use of the language of incitement which recall themes long used by hardline unionists against their rivals at the height of the conflict in Ireland. Opposition MPs said they were linked to an increase of incidents of violence and abuse directed at anti-Brexit MPs. In an emotional speech across the House of Commons, Labour MP Paula Sheriff, who was a close friend of Cox, told Johnson: “We stand here under the shield of our departed friend with many of us in this place subject to death threats and abuse every single day. “And let me tell the prime minister that they often quote his words — “Surrender Act”, “betrayal”, “traitor” — and I for one am sick of it. We must moderate our language and it has to come from the Prime Minister first.” To cries of “shame” from opposition MPs, Johnson replied: “I have never heard such humbug in all my life.” He rubbed salt into the wound when he went on to suggest the best way to “honour” the murdered MP was “to get Brexit done”. He later added this was “the best way to ensure that every parliamentarian is properly safe”. Another Labour MP Anna Turley said Johnson has descended to using “the language of fascism”. “You could see, even after he was asked to moderate his language, even after he was told how it was making everybody feel, he kept using it. He was being deliberately provocative, he was deliberately, he knew exactly what he was doing, he was goading us with it, and that’s what’s absolutely unforgivable. “This is the language of fascism. That sounds over the top but it’s true, it’s the language of othering, it’s the language of turning people against people, it’s divisive and it’s toxic and he knows that,” she said. The far-right appeared happy to ratchet up tensions further. Political commentator Brendan O’Neill, speaking on BBC news talks show ‘Politics Live’, urged people to engage in street violence if the deadline for Brexit is missed. He said English people “should riot” in analogy with the ten months of street violence by the right-wing ‘Gilets Jaune’ in France. A sense of increasing polarisation and aggression within British society have led to warnings of a potential civil conflict in tandem with the collapse of the Union. But British prime minister Boris Johnson’s most senior adviser said the current toxic atmosphere was something that was to be expected. Dominic Cummings, a hugely controversial figure who manipulated the 2016 referendum campaign to leave the EU, warned things would get worse unless the result of the referendum is delivered. “If you are a bunch of politicians and you say that we swear we are going to respect the result of a democratic vote and after you lose you say ‘we don’t want to respect that vote’. What do you expect will happen?”
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A review of legacy inquests involving a number of British state killings
and suspected collusion began at Belfast Coroner’s Court on Monday.
High Court judge and presiding coroner Justice Keegan is set to hold
preliminary hearings into each case over the next three weeks. The
hearings will focus on 44 individual inquests and a total of 70 deaths.
Families killed by the British Army’s SAS at Loughgall were among those
who attended the High Court in Belfast. Submissions were made over the
infamous ambush in May 1987, in which nine men, including eight IRA
Volunteers, were shot dead.
Hugh Southey QC, acting for the Loughgall families, argued that the case
be one of the earliest heard, telling the court that due to an ongoing
civil case much of the material had already been gathered.
Speaking outside court, Mairéad Kelly, whose brother Patrick was one of
those killed, urged Justice Keegan to rule that the new inquest is ready
to commence immediately. She said the families have been waiting for a
public airing of what happened for 32 years.
“The relatives of the nine men killed at Loughgall believe that the
state can no longer put obstacles up and play delaying tactics with this
case,” she said.
Justice Keegan said she would consider a number of factors in
timetabling the inquests, but issued a warning to the British Ministry
of Defence and the PSNI police to ensure there are no further delays in
retrieving material. She warned that lessons should have been learned
from the ongoing inquest into the killing of 10 people in the
Ballymurphy Massacre.
“I am not going to have delays… it is not helpful to anybody not least
the families or the court,” she said. “That message should go out.”
The UVF murder of Catholic couple Charles and Teresa Fox at their home
near Moy, County Tyrone, in September 6, 1992 was the second of six
cases mentioned on Wednesday.
Their daughter, Bernie McKearney, who also lost her husband Kevin and
her uncle Jack to UVF attacks, welcomed the forthcoming hearings.
“My expectation is I would like the truth,” she said. “Things are
heading in the right direction after almost 30 years since both my
parents and Kevin and Jack were killed.”
Relatives of others directly killed by the British state have also
welcomed the start of the reviews.
Francis Bradley was shot dead during an SAS ambush near Toome in County
Antrim in February 1986, another victim of a British ‘shoot to kill’
policy. His brother Brian said it is very important that this
preliminary hearing process takes place now.
“It is vital that we proceed to full inquest hearings as soon as
possible. People deserve to know what happened to their loved ones,” he
said.
“We like many other families simply want to know the truth – we want to
know the circumstances surrounding the death of Francis sooner rather
than later.”
The series of preliminary hearings is due to continue to October 4.
