Politicians have been busy swapping horror stories of the unacceptable abuse dished out to MPs and candidates running for Parliament. Fortunately for Labour frontbencher Jack Dromey, he appears to have escaped the worst of the vitriol. But when talking on the Daily Politics about his own experiences, Dromey resorted to some very unparliamentary language. Here’s what he said:
‘I personally don’t get, if you excuse the language, that much shit. But the shit I get comes overwhelmingly from the right’
Dromey’s language has not gone down well on Twitter, where at least one parent complained that her child heard him swear. Mr S thinks Dromey doesn’t really have a leg to stand on: after all, his swearing came at least eight hours before the watershed…
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