Hello American friends

[The King of Prussia]

In case you're wondering what might prompt someone to murder a Labour MP it's fair to say that we in the UK have no idea. It certainly wasn't anything like this:
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[redstatebluegirl]

1. I am so sorry that the cancer in the US has spread to the UK.

I spent a half a summer there and I loved the UK. Two of my former students did internships there and stayed. My sympathy on the loss of MP Cox.

[The King of Prussia]

3. We've had the cancer a long while

For all I know we had it first.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. I forgot to welcome you to DU!

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Welcome to DU!

On both sides of the proverbial pond, we all have our fascist crosses to bear.

(on edit, and as an aside: when ever I welcome a new DU member, I cannot help to think of our dear member, NewYawker99/Roni. I miss her so much. )

[leveymg]

5. America to Britain: Welcome to an era of uncivil wars. Together, again.

We slide into the Atlantic, Black Sea and Mediterranean together, pulling each other down. How's the weather in Damascus, today?

[libodem]

6. Hello there

[PeoViejo]

7. Moi?

Cameron says.

[shenmue]

8. Welcome KOP

[wryter2000]

9. Welcome

So sorry you've caught our sickness.

[felix_numinous]

10. This dynamic does appear to be international

there are many countries dealing with the extremist right.


Welcome and cheers

[Hoppy]

11. Regarding Cameron's Tweet:

It was maybe 15 years ago, I was vacationing (you call it holiday) in U.K. and I recall a billboard, something warning about the conservative party, the tag line was, ".... be very afraid."


Not much different from Cameron's tweet except Cameron was a bit more specific.

[The King of Prussia]

16. Was it perhaps?

This

[Hoppy]

17. No.. It had the specific text, "....Be very afraid."

[Denzil_DC]

18. That would be this one

It's William Hague's face photoshopped (not terribly well) onto Maggie Thatcher's hairdo, or vice versa. Pretty tame by the standards of UK party political posters through the ages, TBH.

I can't see much of a parallel between that and Cameron's inflammatory tweet. The implication was that Hague, Tory Party leader at the time, despite attempts to portray him as a baseball cap-wearing beer-swilling dweeb o' the people, was the inheritor of Thatcher's mantle. Considering he first made a public splash as a 16-year-old giving a speech to the Tory Party Conference where he wowed the assembled, including Thatcher, with the incandescent wisdom that "half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years' time", and was too right-wing for the likes of Michael Heseltine to consider serving under him if he became prime minister, it doesn't seem an unreasonable tack.

Funnily enough, the photoshopped poster bears an uncanny resemblance to Heseltine.

[Hoppy]

19. That was it.

[Ken Burch]

20. Not comparable.

Nothing in that image would make anyone murder a Tory MP.

[AllyCat]

12. What a dangerous thing for him to say.

He and Trump should get on well I suspect.

[sarge43]

13. Not that different from Bill Clinton saying

Sanders supporters are left wing tea baggers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511248641

[IronLionZion]

14. We could say the same about one Donald J Trump

except there's no need to kill anyone. I would just deport Trump back to his mother's homeland until we can figure this out. So then he will be Scotland's problem.

[shadowmayor]

15. Blessed be Twitter

Re-uniting two countries once separated by a common language!