@TimeToTurn:
"I don't see a problem with wishing the murder of your political opponents, no matter what side you're on."
Really? I think that a mature person who respects democracy would be able to accept that other people come to a different conclusion than them, and that they're not worthy of dying for representing a different political party. I do not identify as a Tory, I do not like their policies, but if any Tory politician was murdered for their political views I'd see it as an affront to British democracy, a disgrace and something to be ashamed of.
"I think in this case this is a pretty harmless statement."
It'd be easier to dress this up as a metaphor or a harmless statement if this self-righteous, holier than thou view wasn't prevalent amongst many British leftists. It's the sanctimony that many Labour supporters have which leads them to demonising anyone Tory, under the belief that being left wing or Labour makes them inherently good and anyone Conservative being inherently bad. It's precisely this attitude which puts many off the left in the UK. This is not the first case of someone on the British left making comments about how they would have Tories die and excuse it using hyperbolic rhetoric about Tories killing the country. If you listen to his interview in the source, then you'd hear from his tone that he isn't making it obvious that he's joking, as you'd expect if he was expressing it as a throwaway jibe. No, he's like many others on the left who seem to see it as acceptable to dehumanise anyone that happens to be on the right. Heck, much of their recent ire seems to be directed at fellow leftists who are not enamoured by the current leaders of the Labour party. These are all red Tories/right wing shills/Blairite scum, of course.
"What's the worse that could happen, some guy actually murders a bunch of Tory politicians? I think that would be a pretty just punishment for what the Tories have done to Britain."
Many Conservative voters would say that they voted for them in 2015 because of what they have done for Britain. The fact is that they are more trusted than Labour on the economy, immigration and security, rightly or wrongly. I definitely lean towards the wrongly camp, but I have to accept that others think differently, and not always because of evil intentions. As woefully inept the Conservatives are at present (their handling of the EU referendum has been shambolic so far), they are not an inhuman, authoritarian menace as they are portrayed to be. They try to portray themselves as centrists and they are democratic. Many of the current crop do pursue their agendas to the end, irrespective of the consequences, but they are not as intrinsically evil as their most vocal critics make them out to be. I doubt that Iain Duncan Smith downs a bottle of champagne every time a news story breaks about someone suffering because of his welfare policies. At the end of the day, I'd say that everything suggests that he's just an extraordinarily inept politician, not some psycho who would fit in well with Augustus Pinochet's government.
" don't think murder of people who contribute to evil is necessarily wrong. I wouldn't do it myself, but if someone did, say, kill a bunch of Republican politicians, I can't really say I'd be complaining."
And, of course, by virtue of being left wing, you'd be fit to judge who's contributing to evil and who's not.
