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A Conservative MP has been stabbed multiple times in an incident at his constituency surgery.

Sir David Amess, who represents Southend West in Essex, was attacked on Friday at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea.


Sky News understands a man walked into his constituency surgery and stabbed him multiple times.

It is believed Mr Amess has been receiving treatment at the scene for his injuries.

Police are believed to be at the scene and the road surrounding the location has been closed off.
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Conservative MP Sir David Amess stabbed multiple times in incident at constituency surgery

Sir David Amess, who represents Southend West in Essex, was attacked on Friday at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. Sky News understands a man walked into his constituency surgery and stabbed him multiple times.
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Geeze, i hope they're ok.
 
Rodelero

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Even after Jo Cox was murdered by a terrorist, this is still totally shocking, which I guess is a good thing.
 
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TheGummyBear said:
I hope he pulls through.

But watch this make a far bigger impact un the media than the murder of Jo Cox.
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The false balance the media were striking during the Brexit campaign really tied their hands when it came to discussing the fact that a remain MP had been murdered by a pro-Brexit terrorist using the same kinds of language as Farage.
 

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TheGummyBear said:
I hope he pulls through.

But watch this make a far bigger impact un the media than the murder of Jo Cox.
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Yeah, sadly stoking fear with lies so some right wing nut job decides one day to go and kill someone standing up for truth and compassion. Unforgivable what Boris, Farage, the right wing press did to wind people up until they inevitably explode.

Anyway, awful news, hope he pulls through. Having walk ins to talk to politicians is very much a good thing even if the results rarely come to fruition. Would be shame if that changed. Hope they catch the person.
 
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I hope he isn't too badly injured, guess there's not much more to say until the guy is caught and we have a motive
 
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Terrible. Hope he makes it through. Direct access to MPs through these surgeries is a wonderful thing, would be an enormous shame if they were stopped.
 
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jelly said:
Yeah, sadly stoking fear with lies so some right wing nut job decides one day to go and kill someone standing up for truth and compassion. Unforgivable what Boris, Farage, the right wing press did to wind people up until they inevitably explode.
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Isn't Amess the Brexiteer that stated Thatcher would be celebrating Brexit in heaven?
 
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Can we please not do comparisons here? Jo cox being murdered was reported for days on end. No one covered it up to help Brexit.

fingers crossed the outcome here is much better.
 
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Awful. Hope he pulls though. He has been a big campaigner against knife crime and violence against women so wonder if that was the motive.
 
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I hope we can find out what happened and get some solid, reliable information soon. Obviously hope they pull through too.
 
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I'll show him more compassion than he's shown for the gay community by hoping he has a smooth recovery and that he's back with his family soon. I hope the idiot that did this hasn't jeopardised people's future ability to speak to their MP's.
 
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Luckily these incidents don't happen more often really. Hope he recovers quickly and really hope this doesn't happen again. Doesn't matter what party you represent, people are people.
 
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Rodelero said:
The false balance the media were striking during the Brexit campaign really tied their hands when it came to discussing the fact that a remain MP had been murdered by a pro-Brexit terrorist using the same kinds of language as Farage.
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Its still infuriating, not only was an MP murdered, but because the terrorist was successful in his ultimate aim. Multiple remain MPs went on and off the record admitting they scaled back campaign efforts before the vote, and didn't challenge the deal as much as they wanted to afterwards. This is some banana republic shit.
 
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I hope he pulls through. He might stand for everything I despise in this country but nobody deserves to be attacked in such a way especially when reaching out to their constituents.
 
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For people who don't know who David Amess is, he's most well known for being a massive homophobe and for the time he was tricked into filming a video warning about the dangers of a fake drug called "Cake"



Anyway, hope he recovers. Don't stab people y'all.
 
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The more riled up people become, the more likely these kinds of events are going to be repeated. No idea what motive the attacker had but there are a lot of crazy people out there at the minute.
 
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Having MPs that are accessible and and help their constituents cut through the faceless machine of state bureaucracy is one of the good parts of our democracy and anything that threatens it sucks.
 

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Jokerman said:
The more riled up people become, the more likely these kinds of events are going to be repeated. No idea what motive the attacker had but there are a lot of crazy people out there at the minute.
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Yeah, it's worrying because it could be any number of extreme segments who exist in this country at present.


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He is in extremely serious condition and had to be operated on at the scene. BBC.
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Yeah, when I read "receiving treatment at the scene" I read that as being pretty serious. Hope he manages to pull through - certainly not how I want us to conduct politics even if we all have our disagreements.
 
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ExcitableBoy said:
I mean the guy was stabbed an hour ago. I'm not sure how you can say that.

Jo Cox's murder was appalling and was (rightfully) reported on for days and weeks in the British media.
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Whilst true, we also had right wing voices repeatedly trying to downplay discussion of her death due to the left "politicising" it, instead of calling a spade a spade and acknowledging that their disgusting rhetoric around Brexit had led to a radicalised terrorist.
 
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Wow, so the way I feel about this seems very different from the consensus. I'll leave it at that.
 

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I've never heard of but I'm guessing he isn't the nicest person by a few posts.
 

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Calderc said:
Wow, so the way I feel about this seems very different from the consensus. I'll leave it at that.
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I guess it depends on whether people think it's m a good or bad thing for elected representatives to be stabbed

I'd seriously hope that most people, regardless of whether they agree or disagree, don't think it's a good thing to happen or is healthy to how democracy is conducted
 
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Sky News/Essex Police reporting the person stabbed has died.

The man arrested at the scene has been detained on suspicion of murder.
 
WhateverItTakes

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Sounds like he's passed away:



I won't speculate about motive or go on about the likely victims political views. This is all really troubling about what kind of environment we have in the UK right now. Yes, it could be an isolated incident, but with the death of Jo Cox being so recent in memory, I worry this is becoming a regular headline.
 
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