Labour contender applauded for joke about killing Margaret Thatcher

Just to underline from which ideological corner the propensity to political violence arises:

John McDonnell, a Labour leadership candidate, was applauded loudly yesterday for telling a trade union audience that he wished to go back to the 1980s and assassinate Margaret Thatcher.

The MP later said his remarks were intended as a joke but the standing ovation he received underlined how large sections of the party remain tilted to the Left.

(Via JammieWearingFool.)

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