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Published 18:43 23 Oct 2018 BST
Updated 19:46 23 Oct 2018 BST
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I don’t know about you but I think if I had to decide what was worse - some anonymous violent language by a Tory MP about a Prime Minister used to the rough and tumble of political debate, or those words used publicly against a hospitalised child - it wouldn’t take me long to work it out.
And if Mrs May is sincere about wanting to raise the level of debate, she should condemn Jackson unequivocally and suggest his local party suspend his membership.
She won’t though. Because she is running scared of the Brextremists and Jackson is still one of their number - with Davis hovering as he and his party wait for her to fall. If this laughable plan that Davis become an interim PM to see Brexit though, it is likely Stewart ‘pathetic cretin’ Jackson will be in Number 10 with him.
Mrs May’s failure to condemn this worse piece of abuse should not surprise us. She did not, for example, rush to condemn the language used by newspapers on her side when they called judges enemies of the people or labelled anyone who was opposed to Brexit as traitors - meaning whatever the Brextremists decided it meant on that given day.
Mr Jackson has since deleted his tweet and also claimed that his comment was aimed at the boy’s stepfather who posted the picture, not the child himself. Yeah right.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but nearly all of the people now shouting loudest on the media and in parliament for a hard Brexit are male, middle-aged or old, Tory, pretty well off and very right-wing. They are also, some of them, like Jackson and Boris Johnson (maybe it is a J-word ending in -son thing) pretty nasty pieces of work.
It is one of the many reasons why I cannot for the life of me understand why Labour is so insipid in its stance against Brexit and so reluctant to support the People’s Vote. Because it is these nasty pieces of right-wing work that have Mrs May on the run. The Brexit being pursued will damage the lives and livelihoods of people in Labour areas more than any others. Disaster capitalists rejoice.
One of the greatest cons of modern times was these right-wing, small state, low tax, low regulation, anti-welfare, anti-public services politicians persuading decent working people to vote for their cause.
Jackson’s tweet reveals what they actually think of so-called ordinary people who dare to think differently. Their violent language about May reveals just how fanatical they are. Both reveal that it is us the British people who should be very very careful indeed about these people being allowed to steal our children’s future. Because that is what they are doing. Driven by right-wing ideology. Filled with hate for anyone who doesn’t share it.
It is also why Mrs May should be a bit more careful with the language she uses about the People’s Vote campaign. ‘A Politicians’ Vote’ she calls it. If only.
Saturday’s march was not just impressive in size. It was impressive in terms of the steely determination, and the breadth of social and economic background, of those marching. If you’re more scared of Stewart Jackson and his ilk than you are of the hundreds of thousands on the streets on Saturday, you are making a very big mistake, Mrs May. Mark my words. I am, as always, being very careful with them.
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