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Here’s a bit of light-hearted satire, injected into the debate on the abuse of MPs by Richard Hutton on his blog A New Place of Exile.

Obviously the tone is not intended to be taken seriously – but the subject matter is.

And the issue is not going to go away soon.

Here’s the beginning of his article. Visit A New Place of Exile for the rest.

People are being unpleasant to each other on the internet, I hear. This is a worrying development.

Never went in on my day, this online abuse, I can tell you. In fairness, the internet hadn’t been invented then; but that is merely the sort of pettifogging detail that only the most extreme of Lefties would consider relevant here.

Many a sharp word was exchanged via a well-timed telegram; and a good, stiff letter to the Daily Telegraph was often warranted. But there was certainly none of this “lol” malarky, until Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party. Politeness reigned in political discourse, until that precise juncture, in fact.

Admittedly, David Cameron and his numerous admirers in the dailies have frequently referred to Corbyn and his colleagues as “terrorist sympathisers“; and a number of senior Labour insiders – sensible moderates all – declaimed that those who voted for him were “morons“, in need of “heart-transplants“. But this should not be confused with casual abuse. Good heavens, no – it is debating, at the very highest level.

In fact, online abuse has become so pervasive since Corbyn’s ascension to the second highest office in the land that Conservative MPs have even received threatening messages from themselves. Merely consider the case of Ms Lucy Allen, for example. Becoming the victim of abuse from yourself, just because you’re a Tory, merely goes to show how far this sort of thing has gone.

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