Thread by @Scribberlings

TO ALL OUR MPs:

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It's understandable that the crowds' reaction seemed out-of-order after yesterday's vote, but I suggest you look to history to see that when people are not happy with you, they will show it.

Any of you heard of Sir Charles Wetherall? >

Wetherell was Bristol's senior judge. In 1831 he made a statement in Parliament that Bristol was not in favour of parliamentary reform.

The people of Bristol responded by rioting for two days. Wetherall had to escape the city in women's clothes.

museums.bristol.gov.uk/narratives.php…

The Great Reform Act of 1832 was enacted because the British people, denied representation through a Democratic voting system, rioted. Not just in Bristol, but in all major cities. The elite wanted to head off a Revolution, and they did. Men got the vote.

Deeds Not Words. Emmeline Pankhurst, amongst other things, organised more than one "rush on parliament" where thousands of women gathered to try to break into the chamber and confront Ministers. But the suffragettes did not adhere just to civil disobedience >

The militant wing of the suffragettes cut telegraph wires, smashed windows, planted bombs and once tried to set Asquith on fire.
bl.uk/votes-for-wome…

The Poll Tax. You should all remember the responses to this one. The British people really, REALLY, did not like the Poll Tax. Remember the riots? Taxhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax_riots

My point being that when people feel passionately about an issue that is in Parliamentary hands, they will not always be content to just let you know their opinions via online petitions and peaceful marches.

The lack of political engagement by the British people is often lamented. You don't hear from us much if we're generally happy. But currently, we're not happy. You may not like it, but civil unrest IS political engagement. No issue since the Poll Tax has engaged us like #Brexit

MPs on here telling people to "cut it out" saying there's "no need" for the shouts and threats of yesterday should remind themselves that throughout history, when the people are not happy with the ruling classes, they will make themselves known.

Considering the scale of the absolute clusterfuck that Parliament has presided over since the Referendum, I think the British people, on both sides of the debate, have exercised almost inhuman patience.

Who knew that our political representatives, on both sides of the House, could behave in such moronic, deceptive, dishonest and quite frankly dishonorable ways? It's been like watching a gang of kids fighting over who gets the next go on the swing. For three years.

People in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones. And MPs in a Parliament so useless they heap shame upon their country, really should not patronise their countrymen by telling them to "behave". They shld, instead, be on their knees begging the British people for forgiveness.

Parliament, you have failed us. You failed to enect a Referendum that couldn't be legally challenged. You failed to get a deal with the EU. You failed to lead a respectful #Brexit debate. You've, so far, failed to carry out the result of the Referendum.

Don't you dare tell the British people how they should behave. Don't you bloody dare.