UPDATE: Woolfe is conscious, and has released a statement saying he is “smiling as ever”. Heat Street understands police are not currently investigating.
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In case you ever needed a reminder that the Left has no monopoly on compassion – this is how retrograde elements of Twitter are reacting to news that Steven Woolfe is in a critical condition in hospital:
“Cult Corbynista” says:
@UKMoments @UKIP @Steven_Woolfe Who fucking care about a dead bigot
— Free Gaza (@CultCorybinista) October 6, 2016
The UKIP MEP, who filed his weekly column for Heat Street just yesterday, was attacked after a meeting in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, allegedly by another MEP.
This man with a Corbyn Twitter badge says:
@Steven_Woolfe @UKIP @Nigel_Farage LOL!!! There is a god! Look at him, what a loser! #StevenWoolfe pic.twitter.com/wxR3fzZasW
— John Paul Keegans (@johnkeegans) October 6, 2016
This anti-Brexit tweeter says:
if steven woolfe dies that means one ukip member dies and another goes to jail for murder. seems like a good scenario.
— Nicole (@KafukaFuura1917) October 6, 2016
some dipshit with no understanding of legality is trying to report me to the cops for joking about steven woolfe dying lmao
— Nicole (@KafukaFuura1917) October 6, 2016
It would be pretty poetic for #NationalPoetryDay if a post-Brexit UKIP dust-up outside the European Parliament ended up in a death.
— Adamned Fiend II (@neon_black1871) October 6, 2016
'Bloody poles…' https://t.co/VtvFzDuawP
— Adamned Fiend II (@neon_black1871) October 6, 2016
@jessphillips if u live by the sword u die by the sword !
— sonny grewal (@SonnyinScotland) October 6, 2016
It is not even six months since Jo Cox was murdered in the street and people swore to bring compassion and respect back to politics.
In the interests of fairness, we will point out that people from across the political spectrum have also wished him well:
https://twitter.com/ElspethOakley/status/784011751931125760
Terrible to hear Steven Woolfe hospitalised after fight with UKIP colleague. Hope he is OK.
— Toby Perkins MP (@tobyperkinsmp) October 6, 2016
https://twitter.com/twinny130/status/784004205665251328
But it seems preposterous to believe that these are the people supposedly cheering on a “kinder, gentler politics”.
