Did you hear the one about the serving soldier threatening to kill a female politician?

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There is no punchline. This is a real thing in our country.

New Statesman is reporting that..

British Army corporal tweets Angela Rayner will “perish” in Brexit “civil war”

A corporal in the British Army issued a death threat to a Labour MP and appeared to incite “civil war” on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon.

The corporal, whose Twitter account has now been deleted, wrote to Rayner: “Ohh fuck off you stupid bitch” and said the MP would “perish when civil war comes and it’s coming”. The soldier ended the tweet by adding that “17.4 million people are gunning for blood if we don’t leave”.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/brexit/2019/09/british-army-corporal-tweets-angela-rayner-will-perish-brexit-civil-war]

I am more than certain about 10 people - most of them on the front bench - out of the 17.4 million would advocate a civil war but is this who we are now? This is an outrage. He should be in the glass house. He certainly should be nowhere near any weapons of any sort.