two2midnight
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He wasn't at a party but a formal event. Are you suggesting he was drunk when he 'assaulted' the woman. Nothing like pouring petrol on a fire to dowse the flames...Hindsight is great, especially from a comfortable armchair. Human instinct can't specifically use hindsight as the actual current event has happened yet, he was at his party, maybe had a drink, someone gatecrashed who was unwelcome making a quick step to the stage, and he prevented any possible outcome or harm both to her and the other delegates. A little heavy handed true, but thats life. She wasn't welcome, so she expected that something like this would/could happen.
I think there is a clear separation between a political event, that has 'time' to warrant a reaction, over something that was based on an immediate reaction.
As mentioned, I have no love for Tory scum, but I'd rather have someone like this on my team, than someone who hides under the table. I like to see politicians being human rather than, well, how a politician is denoted to act. Example - John Prescot, never liked him, but completely happy he smashed that guy for what he did to him.
I'd suggest people look at the time line of the event and where everybody was in the room. There are enough photos and videos to see that well before Mark Field took his action the area to the left and in front of the chancellor was full of protestors. And that he (Field) was a long way away from the centre of what was going on.
A male protestor was actually two or three seats away from Hammond standing just behind the top table at the event. The worst thing he did was say to one of those sitting "as a fellow Canadian....I think you're doing a good job" before laying a gaudy leaflet on the table 1.02 https://media.greenpeace.org/collec...27MZVNT2EM8I&POPUPPN=1&POPUPIID=27MZIFJ8TWFQ6
You may notice from that video that Hammond doesn't look concerned and that there isn't a ring of steel around him. So if the Personal Protection Officers didn't consider there to be a risk next to the Chancellor from all the protestors there, why was Field playing the hard man card out on the fringes....