You say this Jaden but tbh, we have an inherent cultural difference one on one with Americans, they are talkers and we are fighters. They will never understand the need to punch a man in the face because he exposes disgusting beliefs. They generally, simply haven't got it in them.
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Labour MP charged over alleged brawl
February 24, 2012 9:38 am by Jim Pickard
An MP who allegedly became involved in a bar brawl at the House of Commons has been charged with three counts of common assault.
Eric Joyce, MP for Falkirk,was detained by police after the incident on Wednesday night in which he was alleged to have headbutted Stuart Andrew, Conservative MP for Pudsey.
He will appear before West London magistrates on March 7 after being charged with three counts of common assault on Thursday night.
The 51-year-old MP was earlier suspended by the Labour party pending police investigations. “This is an extremely serious incident,” the Labour party said in a statement.
Friends of the former army officer expressed sympathy for the MP, who resigned in 2010 as shadow Northern Ireland minister after pleading guilty to failing to provide a breath test. If Mr Joyce is forced out of his seat Labour is unlikely to lose the constituency, held with a majority of 7,843 over the Scottish National party.
The alleged incident occurred in the Strangers bar, which outsiders can visit only when accompanied by an MP. The spit-and-sawdust venue became known as “The Kremlin” in recent years because of the preponderance of boozy Labour MPs.
A sign once nailed to the wall a few inches above the floor with an arrow and the words “Way Out” served as guidance for those leaving on their hands and knees.
Not far away is the Commons’ Sports and Social Club, the scene of another brawl in 2010, when Labour MP Paul Farrelly “wrested” a man to the floor in “self-defence” after a karaoke party.
Westminster figures have been caught in numerous bust-ups over the years, but these have typically occurred outside the Commons.
Perhaps the most famous was the punch thrown by John Prescott in 2001 on the election trail against a pro-hunting protester who threw an egg at the then deputy prime minister. In 1986 Neil Kinnock, then Labour leader, pinned a diner against a wall in a London curry house after the man hit him with a rolled-up newspaper.
Within the chamber of the House violence is extremely rare, although moments have included a heated Michael Heseltine waving the Commons mace above his head in 1976.
Four years earlier, the Irish nationalist MP Bernadette Devlin McAliskey had slapped Reginald Maudling, a Tory minister, for claiming the army fired in self-defence on Bloody Sunday.
Other parliamentary fisticuffs have been rather less dramatic; such as the scuffle between Labour’s Stephen Pound and the Tory Philip Davies during a debate in a radio studio. Mr Pound claimed he suffered a cracked rib during the brawl, while Mr Davies insisted there had been “no pushing or shoving”.
For a more epic trial of strength one needs to rewind the clock to 1809, when war minister Viscount Castlereagh challenged his rival George Canning, the foreign secretary, to a duel.
During the duel on Putney Heath, Canning missed and was wounded in the thigh by Castlereagh on his second shot. The event prompted widespread public outrage.
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