Emotional stakes raised again

Despite Monbiot's science-backed appeal for calm and reason in the post below, the Gru is still prompting the tears.

A Labour MP gave an emotional  speech about domestic violence:

The Labour MP Rosie Duffield’s harrowing account of her own personal experience of domestic abuse left colleagues in tears in the Commons in what has been described as one of the most moving contributions ever given in parliament.

Clear links via dog-whistle to Johnson saying a similar tear-jerker contained humbug, and there is this:

There was a risk that with parliament’s prorogation the [new domestic violence] bill would not have time to become law.

But the worst example is surely this:

No-deal Brexit risks women's lives, says sister of murdered teen 

[in 2014 -- while we were still in the EU] Alice was murdered by Arnis Zalkalns, a Latvian man who lived in the UK and had murdered his wife but whose criminal record did not emerge before he killed Alice. [Her sister] fears that the UK’s exit from the EU could risk more families finding themselves in the same position.[because] the loss of access to vital international criminal databases, which document crimes like those of Zalkalns, could allow other violent and sexual offenders to slip through the net....“If we leave the EU without a deal people will be put at risk. We need some sort of guarantee that we will continue to be part of the system we’re part of at the moment. We need a proactive rather than a reactive system.”

[However] At the time of Alice’s murder, the effectiveness of the system for checking convictions of foreign nationals was, according to the presiding coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox, “limited by inconsistent levels of cooperation from such authorities and their policies on retention of criminal data”.

 [And the then Home Sec said] “Whilst it would be wrong to set out unilateral positions in advance of negotiations on options for future cooperation arrangements once the UK has left the EU, we will do what is necessary to keep people safe to ensure we have robust criminal records sharing arrangements in place when we leave the EU.”

OK so try to land another blow:

 

She and her parents, Jose Gross and Rosalind Hodgkiss, believe that Alice’s murder was hijacked by Johnson and Michael Gove who, in March 2016 as part of the Vote Leave campaign, published a dossier of 50 violent criminals who they claimed were able to come to the UK and commit crimes as a result of EU freedom of movement